Germinating cashew nut is easy , provided you have impertinent , raw cashew nut seeds at the onrush .
As there is a cashew tree on our newfangled property , plus multiple trees on our street , getting fresh cashews for germination was just a matter of picking them up from the ground .
Cashews are n’t really a nut at all ; in fact , they ’re a seed that uprise on a strange yield that is n’t really a yield .
I ’ve post before ongrowing cashewsand share in that post about the difficulty involved in process the nuts .
The fruit can be used for juice , though , and the tree really is cool - looking .
I embed the cashew nuts in the first icon into grow cup of tea of potting grunge about two and a one-half weeks ago . Here ’s what they look like now :
tight !
I ’d say almost all , if not all , of the seeded player germinated . When I start my newfangled food woods , I ’ll be tot up cashew nut trees to it . I ’d like to pot these trees up but it ’s hard to feel Mary Jane or large containers here to plant them in , so they may just finish up in the ground somewhere .
Germinating Cashew Nuts: How To Do It
First , do n’t purchase a pocketbook of cashew and plant them . That would be an expensive wasteland of tasty nut !
The cashew nuts you plant need to be raw , unshelled and fresh .
Getting viable seeds in the USA is hard . You ca n’t just purchase a suitcase of “ bare-assed cashew tree ” to plant … they ’re drained as doornails . Probably deader . Accordingto The World Agroforestry Centre :
“ cum repositing behaviour is Jewish-Orthodox ; 100 % germination has been recorded after 4 months of candid storage at way temperature , but viability is reduced to 50 % after 10 calendar month and none survives after 13 - 14 months . ”
A couple of years ago a Asiatic friend / devotee snuck in a sassy cashew from the tropics inside her bag of dirty wear and gift it to me at the326 Community Market .
“ Put source inside your marked-up underwear ! ” she said , “ They never check ! ”
I have really hard-core lover .
Unfortunately , that seed fail to germinate ( it credibly pass away of plethora ) so I was stuck cashew - less until I bought a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree for my parents ’ home the next year .
If you ’re able to find sassy cashew seeds , plant them right away a span of inches recondite during quick weather condition . Mine got plenty of lovingness and sunshine and the temperature here are always in the upper seventy to mid 80s – unadulterated for seed germination .
Cashews are really quite honest at reproduce under the right condition and have even been report to be invasive in some part , such as Queensland Australia :
“ Cashew nut case ( Anacardium occidentale ) is an emerging environmental weed in the Northern Territory and northern Queensland , and is involve as a likely environmental Mary Jane or “ sleeper grass ” in other parts of northern Australia . It is crop in tropical regions for its eatable yield , but has been spread by fruit bat and other animals into instinctive vegetaiton . While it currently has a relatively limited statistical distribution and impingement , this specie is think to have the potential to become a serious weed in the monsoon neighborhood of Australia .
Cashew nut ( Anacardium occidentale ) was first recorded as naturalised in the Northern Territory in 1988 , though it is thought to have been present for some clip prior to this . It develop on the edge of monsoon forests near Darwin and is see as a job weed in the Tiwi - Cobourg bioregion , being peculiarly widespread on Melville Island .
In Queensland , cashew tree nut ( Anacardium occidentale ) is a mourning band on the Cape York Peninsula and is becoming invasive on Horn Island in the Torres Strait . It is also listed as an undesirable plant in Townsville City and Thuringowa City because of its current or potential adverse impact on born botany in the Townsville region .
There are also unconfirmed reports that cashew nut ( Anacardium occidentale ) is naturalize in the coastal areas of Western Australia due north of Broome , and that it is common around settlements in the Kimberley region . ”
This is n’t really a endangerment for home gardeners , however . It ’s not like kudzu vine . You ’d have to walk away from a Anacardium occidentale Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree for a couple of decades … and then you might come back to a small stand of them . They ’re not going to be eat the interstate any fourth dimension presently .
When I get some upright cashew yield , I ’ll see if I can talk Rachel into making succus or some crazy recipe with them so I can take it for you all . One of these days I might even hear “ burn ” some cashews to make them dependable for eating . Of course , if I do that wrong I might die , so I might have a native do some for me first .
Until then , I ’m quite pleased with my piddling seedling .
