In article , Jaques d'Alltrades writes:
| The message
| from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
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| I would go for the unheated greenhouse. They won't like a warm,
| dark winter (i.e. indoors), and you will want to sex them before
| planting permanently if you want a crop.
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| How *DO* you sex them before they flower?

With difficulty? I don't know if you can get them to flower when
still in pots.

| And, on GQT last week, Bob Flowerdew was talking about them, and I
| gathered (with half an ear) from what he said that there is at least one
| variety with both male and female flowers.
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| I'd thought of grafting a male onto a female to save space...

Yes. An old trick. Still worth considering.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.