Where do plum blossom seeds come from?

Where do plum blossom seeds come from?

When the plum fruit turns yellow, the seeds inside are ripe and can be picked, collected and cleaned. Its seeds are smaller than mung beans, black in color, and have wrinkled skin.

Plum seed dispersal

The fruit of the plum blossom is plum, which many animals like to eat. When animals eat the fruit of the plum blossom grown in the wild, the seeds cannot be digested and will be excreted with the feces, thus playing a role in spreading the seeds.

How to get plum seeds

Plum seeds are generally harvested after the fruit turns yellow, which is from July to August each year. At this time, they can be picked, collected and cleaned in time.

Plum blossom seed planting

1. Plum blossoms are suitable for sowing in autumn. You can mix garden soil, river sand and leaf mold to make nutrient soil, sow the seeds in it, and provide a semi-shaded environment. They will germinate in the spring of the following year.

2. Plum seeds are suitable for sowing in autumn, and can also be sown in spring. However, after the seeds are harvested, they need to be covered with sand and then taken out for sowing in early spring of the following year.

3. After sowing the plum seeds, you can cover them with 3 cm thick soil, and then rake the soil flat. If you are growing them in potted plants indoors, you just need to plant them in the pot. When planting, the plant spacing should be 3 cm. Cover them with soil and water them once. It won’t take long for the seeds to grow into seedlings.