Can you grow a peach tree from a store bought peach (pit)?

Answer 1

Yup, it depends on how old the pit is and you'll also need the right amount of sunlight and the right type of soil for it to grow.

Answer 2

Yes, and here is how. First eat the peach. It doesn't matter if it was refrigerated or not. Then while it is still moist, immediately plant it.

Plant it about two to three inches deep in tightly packed soil. The soil should not be the highly organic rich stuff. Sandy soil is actually better.

Now assuming that you planted it in the fall, the correct time to plant a peach seed, it should hopefully sprout in the spring.

Ideal conditions and care is to water it once a week if it's not snowing. Keep the soil moist, but not saturated, unless it's just after watering. If there is snow over the soil, then don't worry about watering. To much moister will rot the seed. Not enough though will kill it. Just do your best.

If you plant it indoors, then do the above and you should see a sprout in three weeks to three months. In the spring go ahead and plant the tree outside.

Either way you should get fruit in about three years if the plant makes it.

As all commercial peach's are taking from root clippings, yours most likely will taste nothing like the original peach. That's not to say it won't be good though.

The above should just be done for fun. If your looking for a good peach tree though, then search the web for sellers and buy a few plants.

PS. You can also take the pit, pack it in the middle of a zip lock bag full of dirt and put it in the fridge. Don't full zip it, and keep the soil moist but not wet.

In three weeks to three months it should sprout. When it's a half an inch long plant it.

As you can see from what I wrote, it's the coldness that peach pits like regardless of where you plant the seed. Good luck.

Answer 3

For the most part...the answer is YES. What you will get is what I have always heard referred to as a COMMON peach. We had a common peach tree in our yard when I was growing up. The fruit was small and tough, but it looked just like any other peach tree, so if you seek the ornamental aspect of the peach tree... I like to look to science for the reasons that things happen, but there ARE exceptions to everything...everything in nature. My father in law has a peach tree on the southeast side of his house that he did not plant. (Pit from someone's peach?) It produces the largest, juiciest sweetest peaches I have ever eaten. I live in zone 5 where I believe that we expect a peach tree to bear fruit about once in 7 years. His beats that average too. Go figure!

Answer 4

A friend has a huge peach tree in his back yard that came from a peach he was eating while cleaning the garden for his first daughter's first birthday party. The tree is now huge and the first daughter's children like to play under the tree.
The peach came from a store.

Answer 5

It will probably grow but as before mentioned it most likely will not carry all the traits of the peach that you just finished eating. If all that you are looking for is a tree, or a nice interactive project with the kids go for it, if you are looking forward to making a cobbler I would suggest that you purchase a tree rather than start form a seed

Answer 6

You may well be able to get the seed to sprout. But... It won't grow the same varity as the tree it came from. That tree was undoubtedly a hybrid & their genetics are not stable. It won't breed true.
Besides, you owuldn't wnat it to. One reason that growing your own fruit is so wonderful is that you can grow varieties that can't be grown commercialy. To make fruit viable for the comercial market, they have to be able to be picked when green & ripen in transit. The flavor is never as good as tree ripened.
Plant a variety that has been bred to give a better tree ripened fruit rather than a peice of fruit that will withstand transport.

Answer 7

Planting A Peach Pit

Answer 8

dont belive that hybreed stuff yes it wii grow keep it inside all winter on april 1st hit it with a hammer softly just to crack the shell because the have very hard time getting throu it and plant it about 6 inch in dirt

Answer 9

almost all fruit trees r cloned from a hybrid anymore so they r sure to get the same quality fruit.
if urs happened to come from a seed grown tree yes u can grow it.

Answer 10

I was told when I was a kid the store apples seeds, watermelon seeds etc. wouldn't grow because they'd been refrigerated? I have been able to grow a pineapple from the top of one from a store though.....