How to plant a peach seed
Title: Starting Your Own Peach Trees from Seeds
Meta description: Thinking about planting a peach seed and growing your own peaches? Find out how to do it successfully and harvest delicious peaches from your home-grown trees.
Have you ever eaten an especially delicious peach and been tempted to plant the pit and grow your own tree of the same delectable fruit? Growing a peach tree from a pit is not that hard to do, however, the resulting tree may not produce the same fruit as the one that produced the seed. Nonetheless, you may still grow a worthwhile tree from a peach seed.
--The Ins and Outs of Growing a Peach Tree from Seed
Peach trees bought at plant nurseries are propagated using asexual reproduction methods.
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This asexual method of reproduction produces a clone with the exact same genetics and characteristics as the parent tree.
So what happens if you [link u=how-to-germinate-a-peach-seed]germinate a peach tree from a pit[/link]? Because peach trees are self-fertile, the chances of a wildly different tree growing from a pit are lower than with cross-fertile trees like apples.
So, if you plant a peach seed and grow a tree, the fruit may or may not be the same as the parent tree the fruit came from. However, there is still a good chance the fruit will be edible, so growing a peach from a seed is an inexpensive method for obtaining peach trees and fresh fruit.
--How to Plant and Grow a Peach
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To do this, you need:
• A selection of clean, dry peach seeds from several mid and late season peach varieties;
• Zip lock plastic bags;
• A small bag of potting mix, vermiculite or perlite;
• Space in a refrigerator with a temperature between 32º and 42ºF (0º and 5.5ºC).
Collect the seeds in summer, clean them of all flesh, and let them dry, storing them in a cool, dark place until winter.
In December or January, soak the seeds for an hour or two in water, then place them in slightly moist potting soil, vermiculite, or perlite in a plastic bag. Leave the bag open to allow air to enter, and put the bag in the refrigerator.
Check the bag occasionally, and add a small amount of water if it is drying out. In about two months, start looking for a root growing from the seeds. Once the root is about ½ inch (1.25cm) long, plant the seed 2 to 3 inches (5 to 7.5cm) deep in potting mix in a pot. Then transfer it to the garden when the danger of frost has passed, or let it grow for a year before transplanting it.
--Problems with Germinating and Growing Peach
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