peach trees?

Question

am looking to start to try to plant peach trees and was wondering what is the best way to start, with the whole pit or just the seed part?

Answer 1

You can grow peaches from the pip (the WHOLE pip), but the fruit will be better if you buy a baby tree. This is because the people at the nursery usually bud a cultivated variety onto the seedling which has been grown from the pip, and this makes the fruit more flavourful.

If you still want to plant your little guy (and why not say I !!), your guy will benefit from cross-pollination, but this is not strictly necessary. My father had one peach tree in the garden (among apples and crab-apples), and it was happy.

Peaches are delightfully hardy, and can take rather low temperatures. Also they are not picky about soil, as long as the ground is well-drained, however, be sure that their feet don't get soaked! They don't like that (sandy soil will assist drainage, but is not strictly necessary).

Good luck, and you should be picking fruit on 3 to 4 years!

Hope this helps.

;-)

Answer 2

If you want to start a tree you start with the whole seed. Your problem (if the seed isn't sterile and grows) will not become apparent for 5-10 years. The peach is most likely a hybrid variety and offspring of hybrids are oftentimes sterile, that is they won't produce any fruit. Or they will produce fruit but it won't look or taste like the peach you got it from, but rather some peach that was used in the hybridization of the one you ate. Give it a try but don't expect much. And if I'm wrong and in 10 years you do get peaches like you ate put another question on here and ask what the heck they taught me at OSU?

Answer 3

This is not the normal way to start a tree, but it would work. You are just adding several years of growth time before it can be planted outside. I would buy a tree from a garden center or mail order tree company. You will know exactly what kind of peach you will have and it will start to bear in just a season or two. I have had success with JUNG seed company. Good Luck

Answer 4

I have a georgous peach tree and all I did was throw a peach pit in the ground and it grew it took a few tries but now I've got a peach tree and two apricots fresh fruit every year,yahoo.

Answer 5

We have a beauty started about 2 years ago with a whole pit.

Answer 6

I would think the whole pit.....
this reminds me of a joke that a dear friend told me a few weeks before he passed away.....

Do you know who discovered the fuzz on peaches?






Peaches boyfriend.....come on...laugh.....

Answer 7

If you really want to have peach trees that will grow to maturity in your life time, get trees and transplant them.

Answer 8

Start with saplings; seeds or pits can be hard to germinate. And that's assuming the ground squirrels don't dig 'em up.

Answer 9

I think you must start with the whole pit

Answer 10

buy grafted species you will have healthy plants that will bear fruit