About a year ago, my friend and fellow sprout enthusiast Dan gave me some seeds from what he called the okole vine. Despite finding a surprising lack of information about it on google, I trusted his word that this is a native Hawaiian vine and eagerly planted it. After waiting for months, I assumed that it wasn't going to sprout. I moved on and put other seeds in my planter. A while later, still possessing a few okole vine seeds, I decided to try again and replanted them. The exact timing of all these events is a little hazy, but at some point, in some planter, a mysterious sprout appeared. According to my sprout diary, it was a lychee from a seed procured after eating the fresh fruit. I was of course excited, and I cultivated the sprout. It grew happily and I eventually moved it to a larger pot.
Fast forwarding to just a few weeks ago, I found a new sprout in my planter. I was actually surprised given that I haven't planted any seeds for a while. Looking back in my journal again, I couldn't figure out what it was. I decided to go way back into the journal to the point where I had planted anything in that particular spot. To my amazement, it seemed possible that this was an okole vine sprout! Does it look similar to you? Compare the two pictures.
What struck me as even more interesting and surprising was the fact that upon inspection, this seemed to be the same plant as the one I originally took as a lychee. My journaling isn't perfect, but it seems that both sets of okole vines may have sprouted! They just took their sweet time. I suppose a lesson I learned is that I need to work on my plant patience.
