If you are trying to grow peaches from seed the first thing to know is that the new peach may not be the one you started with. The seed will be whatever they grafted to which sometimes is smaller but tasty. For example you have a nice large cling free peach and the seed or pit comes up. When the tree bears it, it will be the original tree not necessarily the one you ate.
As for growing from seed I have found that planting the seed on top of the ground in the fall or with very little sand or soil on it (in South Georgia) will produce a nice small peach tree by January or February. I don't cover the seeds until after they send the root down to sprout. I tried planting the seed and they all rotted. Just my experience.
As for the new varieties they are grafted to an old type tree and won't be like the seed usually. Plant it on top of the soil or barely under it and protect it from the squirrels and rodents that eat it with a wire and it will take about 5 months and cold weather to germinate. The picture is of the seeds I started in September from my peach tree (original from seed) that I like (an old white peach with cling free seed).
By gbk from GA
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These are some excellent tips. I can't wait to try them.
Every time I discuss planting fruit or nut seeds with the local Ag Agent, he reminds me, I wont get the same fruit as what the seed came from.
That's fine with me. The resulting fruit may inferior or superior, you wont know til you see and taste....and you could be pleasantly surprised.
A lot of do this, do that and whatever you do don't do that.. i have a compost pile in my garden where I through canning scraps. I went out to turn the compost pile for the first time this year and found the pits from last years canned peahes are sprouting without trying.
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