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i would like to encourage my congregation to grow mustard trees from seeds. i realise they grow in hot countries and need 8-9 months sun and warm temperatures is there any way using a heated conservatory/green house that this would be possible.

Revd. Jan Hardy




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isn't mustard a small, yellow flowered annual growing to 2 or 3 feet. Please slap me if miss read your post or there's another mustard

27 Jul, 2014

 

Badfish the mustard seed in the Bible is a totally different plant (salvadora persica) and really does grow into a tree.This confused me for years! I only made the effort to look it up a few months ago when we were shown some seeds in a church service - and tryly they were the smallest seeds you can imagine!
I have no idea where you'd get the seeds as I think the person who showed them to us had brought them back from Israel, though can't see any reason why they couldn't be grown for a few years under glass. Perhaps they enjoy the same conditions as some cyclamen, which also come from those parts?

27 Jul, 2014

 

Thanks for that answer Stera. I've learnt something now, as I also didn't know about the biblical mustard tree.

27 Jul, 2014

 

Cheers Feverfew!

28 Jul, 2014

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