Growing a Peach Tree From Seed - Super Easy! How To Grow Peaches From Pit
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2021
- Learn how to grow peaches from a seed. I share some tips for growing a peach tree from a pit effectively. Using cold stratification, germinating peach trees is a simple process and fun as well! In this video we discuss what you can expect when growing fruit trees from seed, genetic variation and how we can guarantee a fruit-producing tree.
The peach (Prunus persica) is a popular type of stone fruit mainly cultivated in dry, temperate climates with suitably cold winters. Native to China, the peach was evidently cultivated in ancient times in the Orient and eventually spread to become a popular fruit in Europe about 2000 years ago.
The lush, juicy fruits of the peach tree typically have white or yellow flesh and a mic of sweet and tangy flavours. Nectarines are actually a type of peach (the same species) although they are regarded as a different fruits in the commercial fruit trade.
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My experience with rooting peaches is breaking the seed out the hard shell is unnecessary. I got tired of doing this way and dumped all the shells with the seed in them into my compost heap. Out of 50 stone pits thrown in, 48 tiny saplings sprouted. I started transplanting them into individual pots as they were sprouting up from the compost heap. Save some time and labor and let nature do her thang is my new way of growing.
I use this method with my tomatos as well
yep . Your'e right. I've got 13 trees 10-30 years old. I dug a shallow trench tossed them in, marked the trench with sticks. Given away 100's
Thank u for this easy way
What season (type of weather) did you do this?
@@antoniahowell Those who fall of in Sep/Oct, i just leave on the ground, put some dirt on the tomatos, in spring they just show up. Only ones out of 10 years i had to buy some new tomato plants. If a buy a cherry tomato that i like, in autum or spring, I just leave one tomato in the dirt.
I accidentally did this when we lived in Birmingham. We had bought a box of Chilton Co peaches and composted the pits. Few years latter we had a tree LOADED with peaches each spring!
How long did it take you to see actual fruit?
that's brilliant Gary! I hear others also saying they get many saplings growing straight out of the compost, not cracking open the nut, just bang in the compost and wola! Here in Spain with the temps so high most stuff just rots in the compost bin, maybe in winter there would be more chance for that to happen.
You got fruit from seed in few years???
I've been freezing peaches and instead of feeding the squirrels a treat this year, I decided to keep the seeds. We have some delicious peaches here in TN and Georgia of course. So I've got my root starter and I'm going to try... we all need to be growing our own food like ten years ago!!
Great stuff Carol! Poor squirrels will miss out this year 😅 you could always cheat and buy a tree that's got 10years on it 😅 and then grow some seed in the mean time
You're absolutely right, but people like me living in a apartment is almost impossible. People can't complain about the bad chemicals when you grow your own.
I live in Virginia I follow your method to grow peach and cherry trees, what after sprout , do you think weather in North Virginia would keep trees alive ?
Anyone watching from Africa??🙋♂️🙋♂️ I'm in the year 2024 about to start an orchard with my inherited land
Good luck. I started my orchard in 2022 and my plums and peaches have tasted so good that I want to germinate the seeds
Planted a few peach trees 2 years ago and super excited already producing fruit...going to start now from seed and produce an orchard.
@johnrfranklin9072 😎👍 add me I would like to follow your farming 🚜🚚 💯💯💯
Just starting with seeds from
my neighbours tasty cherry tree
I watched you cherry video also and I’ve got my pits in the fridge right now!
Brilliant!
@@GreenthumbsGarden Apples grow close to seed my mama told me
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I love it when people share their knowledge! It helps everyone and is so vital especially in these days, when looking for economical ways to grow your own food. Thanks a million!
Your most welcome Rita! Make sure to share the video so we can get it out there! 😃
What I have learned is that if you grow a tree from any type of pit like this you are more than likely not going to get the same variety of fruit from that tree, rather you'll get a tree that is the same as the root stock from the tree that the fruit came from since most fruit trees are grafted to root stock of a hardier variety.
Not gonna lie, came here for the info! Subscribed straight up because of the accent! Hello from America, my friend!!!
Jolly good old chap! Welcome aboard 😀
lol same.
I have started saving my plum and cherry and peach seeds like a geek ...but I plan on following the process of nutcracking the bigger container shells and then soil planting eventually.i find it cool that I can actually see life that I want to cultivate grow overtime ; from beginning process towards fruition ...I'm excited to start this undertaking
nice! hope it goes well :-)
I have been growing peaches 🍑 and Cherry 🍒 from Seed’s for Year’s , my Children are harvesting them for my Grand Children, every year! They love it! 🍒🍊🍋🥑🍑
@@annamcallister2700 awesome. Just seeds from the supermarket store bought fruit? Or did you buy the seeds? I have some seedlings growing from seed too. Only from store bought fruit though. I also bought heaps of fruit trees from the nursery but I like growing from seed. It’s more fun I think 😅
@@annamcallister2700 do they taste true to seed? Are they as good as the mother plant?
My experience with cherries is don't bother. You will get a thin fleshed inferior flavored fruit.
I was there to see the miracle.
My sister ate a peach and
Planted it in he back yard
And it grew into a lovely tree.
It's first fruit two years later was one peach.
I watched her eat that one and planted it that also grew.yay
that's awesome Bethy! truly a miracle 😀
@Harriot AGUIAH she dug a hole with her heel and put the whole seed in and covered it over.
SHARED LOVE, NEVER ceases to amaze me !
Exceptional tutorial, my friend! Thank you for sharing your love of gardening with us ❤
Thank you! Cheers! :-)
Brilliant! Very helpful and well researched!
thanks Deborah :-) glad you liked it
My dear Alex, it is lovely. I love growing all. the fruits. Thank you 🌹🌹🌹. I'm looking forward to watching the next video.
you have produced a very impressive video. I’ve been gardening for about 50 years and I’m very very impressed at the quality and thoroughness. excellent and well done, good job!
Wow, thank you! really glad you enjoyed the video Mike and thanks for the encouraging comment 😃
I just found your chanel, my husband and I where guessing about your accent. My husband guessed a Spainish/italian influence with scottland or wales. Who would have thought it was Yorkshire/Spain. 🥰🥰🥰 Love your content.
Yeah, right down to the sound of him swallowing masticated peach flesh 😂
Another Wonderful Learning Experience.
Thank You.🌱
Thanks ,🙃
Awesome thank you 💓 for sharing!
Nice job on this video. Appreciated the amount of detail you put into this. Going to give it a try.
You're welcome, glad you enjoy the content @midwesthuntingoutdoors 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
Very insightful.
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING ! :) OUR LOVE FROM GREEK CYPRUS ISLAND :) !
You're welcome, glad you enjoy the content @cyservic 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
Thank you for sharing.
You Rock at the bese difficult to start seeds, Nephew! Proud of you. 💜💜💜 AuntieEllen
You can use paper towel method by removing the brown skin layer from the seed(quite hard if you are gentle, soaking them then using your nails if they are long helps alot) , my strat is i put them in a margerine container with a soaked paper towel, a bit of cinnamon to battle the mold, place container in a airtight coolbox. Now the magic trick, use 2 disposable water bottles that retain heat well, fill them with hot water and place them in the coolbox with the seeds container, do every morning and watch your babys sprout in 2 weeks approx. Succeeded 1 time out of 4 attempts(other seeds broke in half because i was to rough when peeling skill)
Thanks for your very instructive video on peaches and nectarines.
You are very welcome 😃
Great information!! Thank you!!
Great video Alex, thank you
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for sharing this video with me.
Thanks Twila! Im glad you enjoyed it 🍑🌱😀
Thank you for the knowledge. I can't wait to see what results I'll get from your instruction and nature of course...😉
Hope it goes well, be sure to let us know :-)
Thanks Much for the video Alex! 🤩❤️🧡🌿💚
My pleasure!! thanks Svetlana :)
Your accent and just the way you talk is the best part of the whole video 🙂 thanks for sharing your knowledge with everyone! I will be starting my peach pit today. And i think everyone " just loves a tasty peach" 😋 😊 🤭
lol thanks Austin. Some love it, some hate it, lol.
Are you Australian?
I've successfully grafted a beautiful peach tree onto the rootstock of another peach tree. the flowers are beautiful and I hope to see the fruits it'll yield soon! Super exciting!
Awesome great job Calvin Chung 👍 Be sure to let us know how it goes! 😊
One thing I must mention...
MOTHER NATURE is taking back the control of what is hers ! Proof= my beautiful Dark sweet cherry tree ( of 3 years) is now a HUGE producing PEACH TREE!
SO the graft of the cherry tree was a brand of peach of which we have no idea , delicious fruits tho and huge .
Beauty presentation. Very interesting and informative. Loved it.
Nice and snuggly! Cute little seeds
Yes, thanks, its doing well... will have to make a spring update soon :)
This was an awesome video! Thanks so much for posting it. I am going to try this . Wish me luck 😊
Awesome great job Theresa A 👍 Be sure to let us know how it goes! 😊
Thanks for the very informative video
glad you enjoyed it Rick, thanks for the support!
Thank you for such details.
You're welcome, glad you enjoy the content @verlenapeters9410 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
Love these videos
Thanks Kathy! 😊
Thanks for the info very helpful and now I know how to grow peaches last time my attempt failed but I am going to try again,thanks
Excellent Don, hope it goes well!
ThankYou for the video
been looking for this as i have nectarine pits
Great explanation!! Thank you.
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You're welcome, glad you enjoy the content @pilarneary3526 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
Great video! Love the accent! Thanks!!
Thank you! 😃
VERY informational. I love it. The care/ attention detail is inspiring. Honestly it's a plus that I had a chance to giggle my head off listening to you struggle through certain gardening words.
😅 some of these words drive me nuts... its like the Kings Speech every time I shoot a vid...lol
Wonderful experience and sharing
Thank you very much my friend 😁🙏
Awesome.
Thank you 😊. I love white peaches and they have gotten expensive last year. I very much want to cut out the middle man and grow my own. I'm excited to try your teachings ☺
Good luck! :-)
12 years ago a local farmer planted his orchard with peach trees. In 4 yrs they came up as ALL WHITE PEACH ! Got a ton of peaches for free cause he pulled them out that fall! Such a waste! They were the best I've ever tasted & now are the rage!
When nature gives you a sweet treat like that never get rid of it! Always a reason accept it and bless it. 🥰
First video of yours I have seen and I, just subscribed. Very informative and well put together.
Thanks Katfish!! Welcome to the channel 😁🌱 happy growing 🪴
@@GreenthumbsGarden is it some way I Kan kontact you to show you some pix of my trees to get help with them?
Hey Katfish, we have a public discord server you can join and post pics once you have reached level one from introducing yourself and a few messages, or try me on twitter you can @ me there :-)
Thank you so much! Last summer we had a nectarine that was forgotten in the refrigerator and starting to turn. I plopped it into a pot with some soil and hoped decomposition of the fruit flesh and some care, would result in a sapling. I had no idea I was to crack open the “stone” for the seed!🤯
I’m hoping after our recent cold snap, that it might still have some potential in that little pot.
Yes lets hope for the best!! :-)
No need to crack the kernals. I planted a dozen Nectarine Kernals last Summer without cracking them open and they all germinated and now I have so many tree's I dont know what to do with lol.
@@petergilfillan8340 Keep them growing!! Some day soon they may become currency.
Absolutely Awesome...
You're welcome, glad you enjoy the content Raymond Harris 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
Thanks for the video, I just put the peach seeds in the refrigerator and ima check on them once and a while and tell you when they start growing roots. 😊
Brilliant! let me know how it goes Ando!
thank you very clear and practical.
Glad you liked it
Thank you!
I tried to grow a peach 🍑 tree 🌳 from a pit. I put the pit in potting soil and watered it continuously. Nothing happened. Winter came along with wind and storms. The container was blown to the grass and the following Spring there was a tree 🌳 😳. I know right? I saw 👀 the leaves a knew it was either peach 🍑 or nectarine since I had forgotten what was in the container next to the tree 🌳 😅. The second Spring I had flowers and peaches 🍑. Today it is taller than my roof even though I recently pruned it. It is about four and a half years old now. Amazing 👏 🙀 😯 how this all happened. Any way, thought I would share.
Thanks for the tips on growing peaches 🍑 and cherries 🍒.
Are apricots, plums, plumcots/pluots,, persimmons and apples 🍎 easy to plant? Thank you 😊
the winter will have naturally stratified the seed and activated germination come spring. the seed must have been knocked into the grass with enough soil covering it to get the job done 🌳 😅 brilliant!!
I think I'll try that too, have a ton of flower pots!
Plant seeds and leave out thru winter under a sheltered large honeysuckle tree. GREAT IDEA!
Thank you ❤️
Thank you so much😘❤️
right on...a local sweet is always good with desert...bon appetite...
Thanks for elaborate descriptive details of peach cultivation. .....doctor peach...
😅
I love love love peaches
Great information...Liked & subed!
Awesome, thank you! glad you liked the content :-)
Subscribed!
Thank u for your video's 👍🇯🇲
Thanks for watching Stacey! 😁
Thank you thank you thank you
great video i feel like ive been waiting forever to get more knowledge outta ya lol
🤣😂 thanks Curtis, I'm trying to hit the mark of making a video every week but it's hard man, videos in general take me hours of editing. This last one was almost 4hours filming, then many many hours editing. I'm trying to get there, just need to organise a workflow. Hope your well mate!
@@GreenthumbsGarden im doing good and by the way your video was great with the editing and great content. man we would make a good team eh! the wait made it all the better cheers amte
@@branchingoutpermaculturewi4766 we would! Man I would love to have a bit of land like yours man! Keep it up. I need to check out your recent updates when I get a chance 😉
I'm growing cherry seeds on cape cod in the states right now. It's so damn cool to get a tree growing from a little hangover snack. Thanks for all the info.
great stuff Dan! 👌
Never knew cherries fought a hangover.
Learn something new every day, tho i'll never have another hangover . . .
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Don't drink, and you'll never have a hangover again. If you like cherries, eat them while you're hungover, and they taste just as great.
I will love to gave the peach a try 🍑
you sould! no time like the present :-) Happy growing!! 🌱
I've got a red flesh peach that's several years old from a seed I tossed out in my yard. That doesn't happen often but it's been a great tree. Took a full on freeze at 28F this year in full bloom and is hanging heavy with fruit. No clue how it pulled that one off? Amazed that there's anything on it at all.
I was surprised that the peaches are very much like the original that the seed came from. Excellent peaches!
I've got a couple of seeds from some very tasty white peaches I just recently had. I'm going to put your schooling to work and see if I can't get they rooted.
Thanks!
That's awesome Bee! Let me know how it goes 🙂
Wanna swap some seeds? I have a dwarf free stone peach tree. They r wonderful and hardy. Excellent taste. Tree loads with peaches now
Don't have any this year. I cut the tree completely back to lower it back to earth. Full of new growth but that's next years story.
Just cut a nectarine down today making room for a new chicken coop.
The frigid cold over winter killed all my figs back to the ground. They've grown back 6 to 7 feet after they finally got started late. Put a few figs on but they'll not ripen by September.
Blasted squirrels are cutting all the persimmons out of the tree for some reason? Never seen that before. Bout to cut some squirrels out. Lol
Been a rough year. Did get a pretty good haul of blueberries and my goose berries did half descent.
Maybe next year Lord willing. :)
Gonna try it. I have some seeds ty enjoyed your video
Go for it Tish! 😀😅🍑🌱
Very Informative, 👍👍 We're gonna try your methods,Thanks much.🤞🤞
Thanks Douglas Cooper, be sure to let us know how it goes! 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
Bravo! Thanks!
You're welcome, glad you enjoy the content hassan shayegannik 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
I was able to eat a nectarine from the store. Left the pit out for planting a few days later. Ice picked some holes around the bottom of a little gatorade bottle and one in the lid. Added peat and perlite. Cracked open the hard shell and dropped the seed in. Made sure it was covered with soil. Then sat it in a SouthEast facing window sill.
Noticed roots on day 18 and it started sprouting day 20 :)
brilliant Page! 👍😃
I just started growing some peach trees!
brill!! let me know how you get on and feel free to share a pic on twitter or insta! happy growing!😉
@@GreenthumbsGarden will do, thanks!
I will try that
Thank you.😊😊😊
You are so welcome!
I'm in south Florida. You said at the beginning of the video that if it doesn't get cold for at least 45 days, it probably won't produce fruit. Peaches are my favorite fruit and south Florida is my favorite place to live. Hmmm. I'm going to try it anyway & see what happens. 🤣 Thank you for the valuable video!
I am a new subscriber, your channel is very interesting, thank you.
You're welcome, glad you enjoy the content @soonzach4017 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
Good on ya mate, I started loquats tree, it's now about 1mt tall, but no fruit whatsoever. But the mango and the fig gave some fruits. I'll try the peach now. Thanks for your time.
Thanks @jaimeriquelme6727 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
Very interesting I wish I could grow Peaches and Cherries I live in Southern Florida
Thank you♥️
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you very much for your help
Thanks @armorchnnl5028 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
@@GreenthumbsGarden ❤️🤍💚
Thanks!
Your welcome!! :-) thanks thanks! 9 months late :-/ CZcams can be terrible with notifs at times, but they are getting better :-)
This is fantastic! I was gifted a peach tree but I would love to grow one for my sister. I will try this method. Currently germinating orange seeds and lychee seeds. So far 2 successful lychees!!!
Wonderful! hope it goes well :-) happy growing🌱
Did you ever get a great lychee? One fruit I've never seen. I'd like to give it a shot, actually growing them
Thank you for a great video and explanation on how to germinate peach seeds. I am planting our very first peach seed today. I’ll keep you posted. Tks
Awesome great job @jovitaholman3471 👍 Be sure to let us know how it goes! 😊
WOW KNOXVILLE , TENNESSEE !!!
I just tried. I didn’t let it dry out for days I did just a few hours because I got a bit too excited. I threw it in the water just a little bit ago so I’ll see how it goes. I think I’ll try a few more in the next few days and wait a few days to break it open just in case the first one doesn’t sprout. If it goes really well then we will have a few peach trees. One tree for me and one for my parents if they want one.
Thank you
You're welcome Daisy Lee 😀
Thankyou
Sorry to hear of the problem with the Ponca's mine are not doing great but I have not taken real good care of them but I'll tell ye they are good enough to keep. I just cant get over how good they are. looking forward to June.
this works! I threw two peach pits in the fridge without cinnamon. I looked a month later and it was swollen, but I didn't expect anything. It's been three months and I check again expecting nothing, but they both sprouted.
New here thanks for the help
Thanks for the sub! and welcome :-)
I composted a bunch of rotten peaches last year and now found a bunch of saplings this year😁
Aswome Charlotte 😃😃
Plant them babies!
Get those babies in a row or so. Never hurts to plan ahead, surprises are always a nice gift!
They are all planted, I now have 6 peach trees
Wow
This is nice Way of growling fruits I like it and I think we can also do it with an 🍎 let us try it
Cracking open the hard shell is really easy with a bench vice, just crank it closed very slowly so it doesn't turn into shrapnel. Lay a small towel underneath to give the seed a gentle landing.
Great tip for those with a bench vice, thanks Briar! :-)
Just planted my cherry seeds. I'm excited to see them grow. Two questions. How often towater? Don't want to over or under water. And at what point do you transplant to the outdoors?
if your wanting to grow it in the ground, then I would plant it early spring. In my cherry update i go through how I normally test to see if my plants want water, czcams.com/video/O-yUBzcoeZM/video.html
hope that helps :-)
Any new sapling root needs always to be moist. You want that taproot to go down far so I’d grow it in a big pot.
I just threw my pits into the flower bed and I got white nectarine and yellow peaches unbelievable 👩🌾 but of course they were in my flower beds I can’t transplant them cuz I don’t have any ground to transplant them. 😬👍😊👩🌾♥️ thanks for sharing ur ideas and I love ur videos I want to know when do you prune them, is it after the leaves have fallen or before the leaves falls off like in autumn before winter. Thank you
Great job Emy!! prune peach trees annually in spring, just as the buds swell and begin to turn pink. It's better to prune a little too late than too early.
Thanks for the informative video. I just finished eating a peach and the thought crossed my mind how can I get this to plant. I will give your advice a try. BK.
great, hope it works for you!
Cool Peach tree story. A old timer had big peach tree and for 3 years in a row the tree put out small tasteless peaches. So in early spring he went to the peach tree with a baseball bat and whacked the tree 10-15 times. That year the biggest juices peaches were put out by the tree. It's called "Shocking " your fruit tree...
That is an interesting story, Ill have to look into it, thanks for sharing :-)
I have got 5 lemon seeds that have sprouted within a week,I'm in Cornwall South West UK,I'm gonna bonsia 3 of them if I can
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Awesome!! 🍾🎊🎉
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I managed to successfully grow peach here in the philippines also apple and pear and managed to fruit my apple from seeds
and the flowered and gave fruit? do you live in an area you get a decent winter and colder weather?
Nice and snuggly. Awwwww
I did the refrigerator trick with pits from 5-6 peaches from my mother's peach tree. I am not a gardner by any means! I had peach trees/mature sprouts growing out the refrigerator butter storage 4-5 months later. I had forgot about them😂
🤣😂 @nikkiloves78 that's what happened to me. Next time put a reminder on your phone! 😂😅
Thanks for the excellent video. How do you select the correct rootstock for peach or nectarine fruits