Hello, some time much earlier this year (I can't recall exactly when, but I'm thinking mid-early-summer-ish) I got ahold of some tamarind fruit pods.
After eating most of them, I got the bright idea of trying to sprout some of the seeds.
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I tried the nail file method, the hot water soak method, and the hot water drop-in-fish-out method, and I either got a bad batch, or they'd been refrigerated, or I messed up, or something, because out of all 17-or-so seeds, I only managed to get two sprouts.
Now, they didn't come up immediately. I figured they'd all failed and rotted, so I tossed some into my pillbug enclosure and some into my veggie scraps, and *then* they sprouted.
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I dug the one in the pillbug enclosure out and potted it, the other one I just dumped the whole handful it was attached to into a small plastic tote I had sitting around and covered it with potting soil and eggshells and let it sit outside.
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Now it's winter, and I long since brought them in, but I don't know what to do with them.
I want to keep them alive, even if I never get anything from them besides a pitiful-looking little indoor potted tree.
They're tropicals, so I can't put them outside in the ground. This is upstate NY, they'll never survive.
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I think I'd like to try making them into bonsai, since I almost certainly won't get any pods off of them.
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...Any ideas? Advice? Does anyone this far north grow tamarind, even as bonsai?
