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Tom Alonzo

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I have been growing plants from seeds for at least 20 years. I have grown literally hundreds of different kinds of vegetables, trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, tropicals, some cacti, water plants, iris, rose, lilies, cannas, etc. I enjoy starting from seed.

Experience in the area

I've been growing my own seeds for 20 years with indoor propagation equipment I built myself. I am also an Allexperts volunteer on the perennial forum. I have completed the Master Gardener course through the Kansas State University Extension. I have experience with a wide variety of seeds and I have also read through Norm Deno's books on seed germination.

What do you like about this subject?

I get a big kick out of watching something come to life. Emerge seedlings give me a big thrill to see Nature at work.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

I hope I never stop learning and that there will always be a new adventure for me around the corner.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

Growing from seed is only as diffiult as your understanding or lack of understanding at how a seed works.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

GMO seeds. I'm totally anti-GMO.

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Recent Reviews from Users

User	Date	K	C	P	Comments
am	01/19/12	10	10	10
lucinda	01/15/12	10	10	10	Hi Tom! well I definitely picked that .....
Sophie	01/07/12	10	10	10
Dustin	10/20/11	10	10	10	Thank you very much!
Dustin	10/16/11	10	10	10	Thank You!

Recent Answers from Tom Alonzo

2012-02-03 Lemon pits:

Hi Henry, Thanx for your question. I have posted on this subject several times. If you want to save yourself some time, you may want to use the FIND box shown in the upper right hand corner to see

2012-02-01 seeding:

Hi Cyril, Thanx for your question. I'm not sure why the cell flats and planters are colored black. I know some are colored green sometimes (mostly outside the US). I use cell flats but I also use just

2012-01-07 bismark palm:

Hi Lucinda, Thanx for your question. If you're using fruit still attached to the tree, it probably isn't ripe and will end up rotting. The size of the fruit is probably okay. Uncultivated plants tend

2011-12-31 Dying yucca type plant:

Hi Sophie, Thanx for your question. It sounds to me like the plant was at one time waterlogged or not draining well and a fungus has invaded the plant. It may be beyond salvation now. If the stem base

2011-11-26 Liquid Amber propagation:

Hi Ron, Thanx for your question. The pods must be ripe and brown and will have fallen off the trees. Green pods will not contain mature seeds and therefore not be viable. The seeds of the liquidamber

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