is it possible to grow a tree from the seeds of fruits?

Question

for example.. if I was to cut open an apple, and plant the seeds, what would happen, would a tree grow? Or like a lemon or orange... or is there a special way to prepare the seeds for planting?

Answer 1

Citrus will grow from a seed but needs to be bud grafted as a seedling to bear a certain cultivar. Otherwise, you will get only sour fruit.

In Florida, after some of our horrible freezes, we not only lost trees of all ages to plant death, but the ones that lived that were severely damaged, resprouted from below the graft and had to be removed because the fruit would be sour and the tree would never regain profitable growth.

This is often true with other types of fruit trees.

Short answer--yes, you can grow an apple tree from seeds. That's how John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) brought apple growing to the settlers in America and established it as one of the earliest fruits to be grown successfully in North America.

Answer 2

It is the best planting trees by seeds! The tap root does very dip and reach moisture, so when grows not need so often to water it. Become very strong, and weed not break easy, as trees from pots.
Most fruit trees give fruits, but some wild smaller and better, as plums, pears, cherries, apples etc. Some exceptionally not too much different as walnuts about 5% smaller, and teast the same.
Dig a hole with post-hole diger 3 feet dip, mix soil and manure half-and half, and plant the seeds 2 inch dip, water as needed to keep most?

Good luck!

Answer 3

I will add my 2c. Apple will not grow true to type. All apples are hybrids as they take two varieties to pollinate. You will get a tree but who knows what kind. Could be the next Fuji apple or could be inedible. Oranges and lemons will usually bear fruit. Not so with sau tangelo which is a cross of grapefuit and tangerine.
American and Japanese plums , not true to type. European plums are usually.
Nut trees while needing two varieties for pollination will usually have decent nuts when grown from seed. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Yep, I have planted the seeds of (pick a fruit tree) nut trees are really good at growing from a buried nut...just ask the squirrels.
It is best from what I have read, to let the seeds that you plan on planting to dry out first..but that would not be the natural way...no one dries them out in the wild...so don't know how true that is. But it is fun to plant it and watch it grow.

Answer 5

Yes, it would grow. But if it is a hybrid, you will not get the fruit it came from. I have planted apple seeds thinking I would get some apple trees. I got the trees but they are more like a crabapple. Not the same apple. There are some fruits not hybrids but cannot name any.

Answer 6

Yes it is possible to grow a tree from its seed but this method takes a whole lot of time compared to bud grafting. probably many years until the tree is ready to have fruit of its own.

well in the words of my grandma, you must let the fruit ripen fully... until it becomes very ripe. better still if ripens on the tree itself. then you plant it in fertile soil.

Apples, oranges grow in certain climate so it depends what type of trees are found in your city/town. you must be sure that your climate is correct for the particular plant.

Answer 7

Yes you can. I have grown an apple tree from the pips, but it did not bear fruit as I understand it needs to be graphed with a diiferent apple tree. I have also grown orange trees from seeds (these were kept inside due to climate).

Answer 8

it is not impossible to get high quality fruit from a seed grown tree, yet it incredibly is extremely not likely. the proportion of bushes grown from seed which will produce solid fruit is so low, inspite of a pollinator, is the suitable reason that commercial avocado bushes are grafted. Even experiments with root reducing propagation of avocado have produced very detrimental consequences. while you're reason on starting to be avocados, purchase a grafted tree.

Answer 9

yes