{"id":353,"date":"2010-10-22T14:32:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T18:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=353"},"modified":"2014-11-05T16:33:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:33:54","slug":"ginkgo-sex-education-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/10\/22\/ginkgo-sex-education-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginkgo -Sex Education 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6955\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Ginkgo-biloba-frt-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6955\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6955\" alt=\"&quot;Apricot-like&quot; Fruits On Female Ginkgo\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Ginkgo-biloba-frt-1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Ginkgo-biloba-frt-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Ginkgo-biloba-frt-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Ginkgo-biloba-frt-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Apricot-like&#8221; Fruits On Female Ginkgo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Surviving an autumn season with a heavily\u00a0fruited ginkgo (<em>Ginkgo biloba<\/em>) tree is a foul smelling experience. The odorous yellow fleshy fruits ripen in October and drop onto public streets and home lawns. Several times I have witnessed the Jonesborough Tennessee Fire Department raking up fallen fruit and hosing down a sidewalk too treacherous to walk upon from the slick pulp\u00a0that coated the street. Attempting to remove the stench from your shoes\u00a0is an almost impossible task.<\/p>\n<p>Ginkgo is a lovely large shade tree which prospers over many human generations in the landscape (USDA hardiness zone 4-8).\u00a0\u00a0The dioecous (single sexed) ginkgo tree is\u00a0either male or female. In many U.S cities, a female ginkgo\u00a0is forbidden by law to be planted. Most nurseries sell male-grafted trees, properly labeled\u00a0by cultivar. \u00a0Some recommended selections are: Princeton Sentry\u00ae, &#8216;Magyar&#8217;, &#8216;Fairmount&#8217;, &#8216;Haika&#8217;, &#8216;Autumn Gold&#8217; and Spring Grove\u00ae.<\/p>\n<p>Gardeners may harvest the fruit, remove the pulp and sow the seed in the fall. The following spring\u00a0many seeds germinate and develop into lovely ginkgo trees\u00a0if properly pruned, irrigated\u00a0and fertilized.\u00a0A lingering question is whether\u00a0the\u00a0tree seedlings are male or female. Ginkgo grows into flowering adulthood\u00a0in 20-25 years. Worth the wait or do some trees\u00a0become a chain saw disappointments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surviving an autumn season with a heavily\u00a0fruited ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) tree is a foul smelling experience. The odorous yellow fleshy fruits ripen in October and drop onto public streets and home lawns. Several times I have witnessed the Jonesborough Tennessee Fire Department raking up fallen fruit and hosing down a sidewalk too treacherous to walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,398,910,778,1119,1182,623,1059,951,601,777,630,646,7,850,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6956,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/6956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}