Mistletoe

I bought some of this in tescos today. Does anyone know how to grow it from the little berries? I know it's parasitic and needs some sort of special conditions but haven't a clue. I love a wee bit of a challenge and would like to try.

 

Try this link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3345933/Mistletoe-How-to-grow.html good luck Ihope you have a lot of patience.

 

That description in the Telegraph is exactly the same as the one I heard on Woman's Hour on Radio 4 last week. The expert being interviewed did say to wait until February when more berries are ripe.

Good luck though

 

Thank you. An interesting article. I have the mistletoe in water. I have plenty of trees so I will give it a go. I have an awful lot of birds too though:lollol: I wonder if they were covered would it stop the birds eating them.

 

No, feed the berries to the birds and then ask them to poop on the right branches for you.:lollol:Wazzakins suggested that to me yesterday when I was talking to him about it

Seriously, I have a couple of crab apple trees in the front garden and I want to have a go at seeing if I can get mistletoe to grow on it but I need to access some of the higher branches.

I somehow think me, a ladder and the tree will have to do this.
I'm going to have to cut out the middleman (or the middle-bird) :lollol:

Step 1. buy mistletoe.

 

Step 2. Buy a baby apple tree and start from scratch so as to reach branches before they grow:gnthb:, and stay away from ladders:(, or you`ll end up like me with a badly grazed belly after attempting the exact same operation two years ago.:lollol::dh::lollol::dh::lollol:

I prefer to do it the old fashioned way now-and if the tree can bear my weight ( hard enough in itself) I climb with my own arms and legs-much safer. The ladders don`t slip out from under you that way. ( or rather from under me!)

 

I have some great images in my head now, of you balancing precariously in a tree, frantically trying to wedge a mistletoe seed into a crack!!

 

Then all I have to do is tie the bird to the tree:lollol::lollol::lollol:

 

Best not to have too many glasses of sparkling before you do it-no matter how brave it may make you feel:hehe:

 

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
sorry, shouldn't laugh but it does conjour up images.

 

Shobna, you minx, how very dare you-:hehe:,

glad I made you chuckle though. `Course had you been there you`d have needed the tena ladys. Sad the day you turn around and the children you went through agonies to bring into this world are wetting themselves at your misfortunes-bluddy kids!!