Guess the seeds...

[British Red]

I was planting today....anyone care to guess what the seeds are? Only three ...

Seed 1

Seed 2

Seed 3

Good luck and....go

 

[Goatboy]

Difficult, I'm out practice, though the #2 one seems familiar (though looks like bacon bits)

#3 Is it medlar seeds by any chance?

Good competition, always fun to get the brain turning over.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[British Red]

Number 3 is / are not medlar

 

[santaman2000]

# 1 some sort of pine? Or fir?
#3 acorns?

 

[British Red]

Nope....and nope

Seeds are tough!

 

[Klenchblaize]

No 2 looks a little like medlar.

No 3 has to be something Shakespeare would have been delighted to get rid of!

 

[British Red]

Number 2 is medlar!

 

[Trencakey]

1.Cardoon
2.Medlar
3.Yew

 

[British Red]

Okay,

HOW???? did you know?

 

[Seagull]

metadata shows it
Ceeg

 

[Trencakey]

I viewed the post without logging in,it gave the answers in the photo attachment

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File Type: jpg cardoon seeds ready.jpg (58.8 KB, 43 views)
File Type: jpg Medlar Seeds.jpg (73.9 KB, 42 views)
File Type: jpg Yew seeds.jpg (77.6 KB, 43 views)

 

[British Red]

Damn, deliberately didn't put them in my flickr account.

Right, next time I'll rename them!

 

[Trencakey]

Sorry

 

[Quixoticgeek]

What did you do to the Yew seeds by way of processing them?

Cheers

J

 

[British Red]

Did a lot of reading and the advice seems to be they have low viability, so plant a LOT of rinsed seed in very sharp mix (50% sand) and allow to stratify for at least 2 years. I wondered if they needed digestion - but it seems not. My friends have a massive yew that covers the ground in half an inch of berries each year, so I can afford to waste a few.