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I tried growing it from seeds myself... Yes you do have to have the seeds extracted from ripe olives... you scratch the one end.. (make sure you do the the end..) what that does is encourage germination... and after that you need bottom heat... and plant it in a well drained soil... not peat moss.....
If you're lucky it well take couple months... I gave up and bought some cuttings.... much faster way.
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