Who knows, plant them & hope, maybe you'll get lucky. No! As soon as it can bloom, you can have fruit- From what i've heard some can bloom ay 6 months old, but most of mine take a year from seed to fruit. Go for it, plant those seeds!

The only suggestion I can make is to uninstall the program and upgrade, do a search on your computer for PE Design and delete those folders, shut down your computer, restart, do a search for the program folders and directories again to make sure they are completely gone, and reinstall the program using the disks you received when you bought the program, install the upgrade, and then look at the Brother download site for any fixes, especially if you have service pack 2 on your computer which will do strange things to some programs and accessories such as reader/writer boxes, printers, and cameras. When you reinstall, make sure your virus protection and firewall are off. Also go into control panel and fonts and see if your embroidery fonts installed there. After everything is installed and working correctly, move any designs on the hard drive to cd or disk and keep them there so you have more memory to work with PE design in the future and no risk of losing designs again. You can categorize designs by type on a cd for each design type, flowers, fonts, animals as an example, and then print the design out and keep the notebook categorized by that cd type, --we did this for years for word processing in business numerically or my person's name so we could find files quickly. When you download purchased and free designs, there are "terms of use" written somewhere on the sites or on the purchased card. The copyright issue has caused more than one person on Garden Web, other sewing sites, and E-Bay a lot of grief, time and money...just a friendly, concerned caution so you don't end up a victim. With sewing/embroidery machines, there is a warranty issue. A notebook of designs is a good idea as well as renaming designs that have a descriptive meaning to you. Once you get your PE design going, you should have the ability to bring the design up and then print it along with the color definitions if included. Some free designs have a .jpg file included along with the color changes that makes it easy to print out.

What a great find, I love it. I made some for nursing home patients to use to cover their laps while sitting in a wheelchair. I like to make them while traveling in the car. They require little concentration, are fairly quick to do and can be put down with out loosing your place. beverly

Great going big guy! that's what I'd say. Next he'll be using publisher, word and all that kinda stuff. I know he's going to be using it for a long time. Soon the little kids will be making their own programs, Visual basics, in computer class. These kids will be booking in the pc world. My kids and I love power point and have used it obsessively throughout the school years. A funny thought about powerpoint. A friend of mine has 5 kids who love to hunt and eat their keep. Anyway one of them did a whole power point on a deer skinning to eating it. lol, oh , I know some of the students at school were a bit squeamish with that presentation. He and his partener got an A though!