Imli ka Boota :) Good Idea or Bad Idea ??

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Imli ka Boota :) Good Idea or Bad Idea ??

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few days back my young niece sowed two Tamarind seeds (Imli) in one of my pots and regularly watering it.. Luckily both seeds sprouted..
i just wana ask is is good idea to grow Tamarind in Pots or bad.. ??

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Re: Imli ka Boota :) Good Idea or Bad Idea ??

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new gardener wrote:few days back my young niece sowed two Tamarind seeds (Imli) in one of my pots and regularly watering it.. Luckily both seeds sprouted..
i just wana ask is is good idea to grow Tamarind in Pots or bad.. ??
Just for the sake of curiosity of the children, let it grow for few months...otherwise imli, as you may know, is a huge...huge tree!
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Just for the sake of curiosity of the children, let it grow for few months...otherwise imli, as you may know, is a huge...huge tree

Yes and how long it takes to fruit?
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Re: Imli ka Boota :) Good Idea or Bad Idea ??

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Arif Sb
It takes three to four years to fruit. May be even less than that as i recall seeing a hardly ten feet tree fruiting.
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Khalid Abro wrote:Arif Sb
It takes three to four years to fruit. May be even less than that as i recall seeing a hardly ten feet tree fruiting.
My sweet Imli tree, was sown in 2009 is growing well,is more than 15 feet high, if it fruits in another 2-3 years I would be happy but I do not think so.

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Arif sb, your Imli tree is still very young. I have only seen mature trees (with wide trunks) that bear fruits.
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If they bear fruits in four years then Arif sb. may be lucky to have some in a year or two.:)
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M Farooq wrote:Arif sb, your Imli tree is still very young. I have only seen mature trees (with wide trunks) that bear fruits.
I agree it was only For Khalid Abro, I do not expect it to fruit in another 10 years.
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I bought recently a grafted sweet tamarind plant and I was informed that it would take this grafted plant atleast 3-4 years to bear fruit.
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Could the grafted plant fruit n a large pot? Wll it's final height be smaller?
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