Day 1: Planting the seeds.

After doing a bit of research through Google, I took information from all of the websites, and conducted my experiment.

One website *here* was very informative. It explains that if you have seeds from an orange, you need to refrigerate them for 3 or 4 weeks because the store-bought seeds are usually shocked too. It said to wrap the seeds in towels but it did not say if you should wet them or not. It also said to test the seeds in a cup of water... the seeds that sink will be able to sustain themselves to grow (hardy seeds), while the ones that floated (bad seeds) weren't hardy enough to sustain themselves. This information is new to me, but I accepted the challenge.

Another website *here* reads that you can use the paper towel method to start germination, but using soil cups are more effective.

So we now have a few options to grow the seeds:
1. Chill the seeds for 3 weeks dry, then plant them in soil
          (I chose 1 hardy seed)
2. Chill the seeds for 3 weeks wet, then plant them in soil
          (I chose 1 bad seed)
3. Grow seeds paper towel wet, then plant them in soil
          (I chose 1 hardy seed in the sunlight, and 1 hardy seed in the dark)

*OR*

4. Grow seeds in soil from the get-go, cross your fingers and hope the most logical application works.
          (I chose 12 bad seeds) [These are exposed to direct/indirect sunlight]

Extra: A website *here* described how oranges are a perfect flower, meaning they have both male and female parts, and that you can grow an orange tree indoors, but they get very large and there probably isn't enough sunlight (duh). However, you can make bonsai trees (see *here* ) with orange trees (very exciting!).

So, here's to day 1.

-Dee