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Last October, when I was cleaning out my pots, I found two acorns. I assume the squirrel seen slinking between the pepper plants several weeks earlier left them there.

I did some research and discovered that you could sprout acorns in the fridge. Apparently acorns often sprout in the fall when they fall, but then need about 1000 hours of cold weather to grow in the spring. So you're supposed to keep the acorns in the fridge all winter.

OK, that was just not happening. We have cold enough winters here, so I simply buried the two acorns in a pot of soil and left them on my porch all winter.

Not content to trust plants to do their thing, I checked on the acorns about a month ago. One acorn was completely gone. It was nowhere in the pot. The other acorn had grown a slightly longer root, which later turned pinkish at the end. It appeared dead and I figure it was, but then two roots grew. I left it in the pot and watered it with the rest of my plants.

And finally...

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