{"id":9205,"date":"2014-11-08T01:56:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T08:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9205"},"modified":"2014-11-08T07:31:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T14:31:20","slug":"growing-christmas-mistletoe-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-christmas-mistletoe-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistletoe Growing &#038; Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0863157394\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0863157394.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike money, mistletoe grows on trees. Unlike kissing your money goodbye, a kiss under the mistletoe can be something special.<\/p>\n<p>Mistletoe\u00c2\u00a0 is a parasite, living off the nutrients and water in the tree that it grows on. You can find mistletoe growing on the branches of hawthorns, apple trees, poplars, limes and conifers.&#8217; read more from the RSPB to find out about the role of birds and the life cycle of misteltoe.<\/p>\n<h5>Oh and good luck with the kissing.<\/h5>\n<h3>Tips for Growing Mistletoe<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Use &#8211; pure white or yellow berries not unripe green ones.<\/li>\n<li>If the berries have been used in the house through Christmas they may have dried out. If you have no other fresh ones soak the berries in tepid water.<\/li>\n<li>Using the berries&#8217; own sticky juice attach several to the underside of a branch. Only inoculate 1-3 branches of each tree. The parasitic effect will sap \u00c2\u00a0 energy from the tree.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>The ideal hosts has bark thin enough for the germinating seeds to penetrate but strong enough to support the new plant. A 6-12&#8243; diameter branch should work and a new leaf should be formed by next spring.<\/li>\n<li>Host plants include apple, hawthorn, oak, lime, willow, crab apples,\u00c2\u00a0 ash,\u00c2\u00a0 plum, rowan and even unkempt climbing\u00c2\u00a0 roses.<\/li>\n<li>Male and female flowers\u00c2\u00a0 form on different plants, one for berries and one for pollen.<\/li>\n<li>New plants may\u00c2\u00a0 take 4-5 years to produce berries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Traditions and Mistletoe<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>As a pagan symbol of fertility mistletoe is found in many european traditions.<\/li>\n<li>Images of mistletoe feature on this website devoted to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mistletoe.org.uk\/home\/mtoetraditions.htm\"> mistletoe.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ancient Greeks believed mistletoe was a cure for poisons.<\/li>\n<li>Mistletoe is also used in some complimentary or homeopathic medicine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike money, mistletoe grows on trees. Unlike kissing your money goodbye, a kiss under the mistletoe can be something special. Mistletoe\u00c2\u00a0 is a parasite, living off the nutrients and water in the tree that it grows on. You can find mistletoe growing on the branches of hawthorns, apple trees, poplars, limes and conifers.&#8217; read more from the RSPB to find out about the role of birds and the life cycle of misteltoe. Oh and good luck with the kissing. Tips&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-christmas-mistletoe-tradition\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}