Every Seed is A Promise of Life: Sowing Peanut Butter in My Small Garden

Peanut Butter seedling 31 days after sowing seed

2 Seeds, 1 Life

My best buddy, Ironwulf, gifted me with an unusual present last holiday season -- two peanut butter tree seeds from Davao. I would've requested for more had I known this but went ahead and planted them in my small balcony garden anyway. The present was especially auspicious as they were given to me on the same date as the passing of my brother, the 29th.

I'm happy to say that the seeds got a 50% germination rate. The plant showed new growth daily ever since the seed sprouted in my second pot after just a week.  I've transplanted it just yesterday and found the root system to be extensive, balling up in the small pot where I've sown it. I've gardened for most of my life and up to now, I don't take seeds for granted. It's really amazing how such a small package hold the blueprint of life. I can't wait to post again after another month and see how tall this plant will grow. I know it takes two or so years before it fruits but I want to enjoy the process.

This simple act offers lessons -- one, is that life continues, and two, to give things a try. 

More Electroculture Stories: From Skepticism to Belief

Note the Electroculture stake amidst the Oregano and giant Pothos

Pardon if the title borders on the religious but it's how I describe my conversion from being skeptical to believing in what a piece of wooden stick and copper wire spirals can do for your gardening. It doesn't matter if you're doing it on a potted plant or on the earthen plot, whether you're using the bioelectroculture technique on edibles or ornamental plants.

About two months into the experiment, my initial findings were the following:

Electroculture Gardening Experiment: I Was Really Skeptical But...

New batch of Basil after a typhoon blew away my former batch

I would like to think I'm more open to fringe theories than most people I know. Even then, I thought electroculture gardening was farther left field than most topics. I've read and watched about it years ago but never got to try it until now. I had several Dragontail plants (Epipremnum pinnatum) that withstood my transfer to a new living space a year ago though one or two weren't really thriving. I found out the hard way that like rubber plants, they're rather sensitive to being moved around, preferring to be in their spaces.