Can you plant seeds from any store bought fruit?

Question

If I eat an apple that I bought from the grocery store, can I plant the seed that came out of it? It is the same for any fruit?

Answer 1

It depends on where you live. Like down here in the south you can plants pretty much anything and it will sprout. Like one girl said about the watermelons. I did this (also Pumkin seeds) and they grew huge and pretty in my front yard. No lie!!. Also there was a lady here in town , she was on the front of our local paper for cutting the top off a pineapple and planting it and it grew in to more. I have a friend that has bananas growing down here which you would think is unusual. As for apples Im not sure. I do not see much of those around here. But I think they only produce them up north anyway.

Answer 2

Sure can, but as others have said (some incorrectly) most tree fruits are grafted from a parent stock and thus are a clone (not a hybrid) of that parent, the seeds grown out will not likely resemble the parent.

Vegetables are different, these are mostly hybrids, and not even good hybrids. So planting these will yield something like one of the original parents or something with undesirable traits. For a home garden, a tomato with a thick skin that can handle a lot of handling and long transport times is not desireable, far better seeds available.

So fruit seeds can be fun to plant but don't expect the original product, and vegetable seeds are best left in the garbage. Unless its from a local market grower, which might have better varieties.

Answer 3

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Can you plant seeds from any store bought fruit?
If I eat an apple that I bought from the grocery store, can I plant the seed that came out of it? It is the same for any fruit?

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Answer 5

You can plant the seeds, but not all will sprout. Several years ago a person named Langer had a cute little book about the fruit plants he cultivated in a New York city apartment from seeds from the fruit. The book came out in the 60's or the 70's when kiwi was a fairly unknown fruit.

Answer 6

You should be able to do this with heirloom varieties, like heirloom tomatoes. These are from a constant breed, with no grafts or hybrids, so they are the same breed from one generation to the next.

Most tree fruits at the grocery store, like apples, are made from one breed grafted onto another. This uses the hardy roots of one breed and the tasty fruit of another. If you plant the seed from that tasty fruit, it may germinate into a small plant if you are lucky. But it most likely will not grow into a tree, because its roots are not strong enough to withstand molds or other natural perils.

Like others said, vegetables are mostly hybrids that will have sterile seeds.

Or, you can get a packet of seeds for a couple bucks!

Answer 7

Yes, you can, some fruits need more then one seed to grow that type of fruit. Make sure that if you want to plant a specific fruit that you do some research on that fruit to know how many seed's to plant.

Answer 8

Great Question!! I don't know about fruit. I do that with all of my vegetable plants, tomato's, peppers, bell peppers, anything with a seed. I take a container of soil and squeeze the seeds from a good tasting tomato on top, let the seeds dry out for about two weeks then fertilize. I transplant them when they get strong enough to move. From one tomato, I will get 60-75 plants. I also grow jalapenos, the same way and use them in my salsa. I grow some mighty fine tomato's and peppers. I can them, make salsa, and homemade spaghetti sauce. Your on to something there, give it a shot and see what happens. Good Luck

Answer 9

Yes of course.
I bought a 2lbs Red Cherries about 5 years ago and after 1 year I took the the seed that i've been hidden in the basement and i planted it and after exactly 21 days it was 2 leaves of a cherrie tree in the place of the seed, and now it's a big tree of red cherries.
Good Luck!

Answer 10

yes you can plant it, and it will most likely sprout. But it's unlikely to grow into a mature productive tree and produce fruit the same as what you bought in the grocery store. The reason it won't do that is most apple, and other commercial fruits, are genetic crosses and are grown as grafts on rootstocks that are of yet another genetic makeup. Avocados will grow for you though, so if you're just wanting to grow something from the grocery store--get an avocado.