how can i grow a peach tree from this years pit?

Answer 1

MASTER GARDENER TO THE RESCUE.

chances are if you plant your pit you will not get the same nice peach the pit came from. most top quality stone fruit are grown on grafted trees. (a strong growing, but low quality fruit producer is used for the roots and lowest part of the trunk and a cutting from a high grade fruit tree is grafted onto the root stock so you get a faster growing tree that puts out a high quality fruit.) unfortunately your pit gets it growing stuff from the root stock. planting the pit means you will get a faster growing tree with poor quality fruit.
you are always better off buying a grafted tree from a quality nursery in your neighborhood. if you choose to use your pit you will waste 3 to 5 years of your time only to be disappointed in the end. sorry.

Answer 2

It can be done -- just remember:

"Peaches from seed can result in trees that bear decent fruit, although they may not look or taste just like the peach from which the pit came. Most commercial peach varieties are budded onto specific varieties of rootstock."

Check the first link below for the information you need on planting and watering specifics. This is how to do it if you live in a climate that has a true winter, but is not so cold that it will kill a peach tree when grown, so that your effort is wasted.

However, if you don't have a true winter in your area, you need to "break" the dormancy of the seed artificially. From the Growing Edge:

"Peach stones need to be stratified before they will germinate. This means taking the peach stone directly from a ripe peach, soaking it for 24 hours, then wrapping it in damp paper towel and then plastic (or in a bag of damp, sterilized sand, which is the procedure in the nursery industry), and placing this into the refrigerator at about 3-4 deg. C for a period of four months. This replicates what would occur in nature: The damp seed from the fruit falling on wet ground and then going through a long, cold, damp winter, which will act to break the dormancy the stone has when taken from the fruit.

When conditions warm up again (when you take the stone from the refrigerator) and sow it into potting mix at about 20-25 deg. C, it will then be ready to germinate. Germination, however, could take some time as the hard seed coat makes the process of germination rather slow. Once you have your peach seedling, its a good idea to graft it onto a good variety (a shoot with buds taken from a good cultivar of fruiting peach) since seedling-grown peaches don't often produce very good quality fruit compared to the varieties of peach you can buy from nurseries (which are always a rootstock with a good fruiting type grafted on top). Good luck with the peach stones. [Note temperatures are in Centigrade, not Farenheit!!]"

And I wish you good luck as well! Sweet eating -- a few years from now.

Answer 3

How To Germinate Peach Seeds

Answer 4

NO. You will not get any fruit worth eating. Almost a good fruit if from root grafts. The bottom part of the tree is from one plant the top from another. The good doctor (above) is 100% correct. i thought he was wrong so I called around and checked. My experts said te is right on the money.

Answer 5

Hey Miles1, yahzmin99 above mean well, but garden dok is correct. if you follow yahzmin99 you will be waisting your time and energy. the sad thing about answers is people who have no idea what they are talking about are allowed to give advise. sadder are those who trusted bad advise and paid for it later.
listen to garden dok. check him out, over 8o percent best answers. or check any nursery. they'll tell you planting you pit isn't going to give you anything but a weedie bush.

Answer 6

Lie on an inversion table and have someone fill them with dirt. Then plant the seeds. After that have a friend move you around around to keep you in the sun. GOOD LUCK!!

Answer 7

Should. I take theses and put it in soil in plastic bag and refrigerate

Answer 8

it has been my experience that getting advise from a MasterGardener is always the best you can get. my vote goes to garden doc.

Answer 9

you are lucky you asked when a master gardener was on line. follow his advise. master gardeners are experts you will never find at any garden center.

Answer 10

Plant it.