[fibilou]

Hubs just bought lots of apricots, cherries and nectarines. For a laugh I thought i'd try growing them from the stones. In the unlikely event that I am sucessful, how long are they likely to take to reach fruiting, and is that actually likely to happpen from greengrocer bought fruit ?

[GrannieAnnie]

Doesn't always work, often they will grow, but maybe not fruit.  However I was given a peach tree once that an old neighbour grew from a peach stone and we did have peaches from it, but not loads.

Try it and see, you may get lucky!!!!!

[poultrygeist]

Also, they can end up quite big, and take several years to come to fruit, if at all.

Be nice to see a few grown from stones and pips. Might do a couple myself. Can always Bonsai them !

Rob

[sharky]

I think a lot of fruit trees are grafted, so your tree will grow quite tall and I don't think it would produce edible fruit.

[nobby]

this year I have had a go at growing pomiegranets from seed
they are going like stink
cant wate to pick the first frute in a coupel of years

[poultrygeist]

I think a lot of fruit trees are grafted, so your tree will grow quite tall and I don't think it would produce edible fruit.

I think they can do. The grafting shoud only affect the size and shape of the tree surely ?

But I don't know enough about the germination to say what teh chances are. Aunt Sally might know.

Rob

[londongardener]

Just one thing they will be new varieties - possibly really nice - probably not !

[Trillium]

And you also run the problem of whether or not the resulting tree/bush will grow well in your climate versus where it originally grew.

My dad used to plant peach, cherry and plum pits and he eventually got small trees - very small ones, that gave no fruit as they needed many more years to mature.
It's a whole lot faster and dependeable to simply buy small trees suited to your climate of varieties you particularly like.

[jennyb]

this is my apricot from a stone/seed (taken at the end of april)



i think i planted it about the end of 2006,  whether i'll ever get any fruit who knows - looks pretty tho!

[gobs]

Most stone fruit tree are the shortest to flower from seed - quite a few years still -, depends, you don't know what you get but it's an exiting experiment, most often useless waste of time , sometimes a good gain.

[londongardener]

Don't forget apricots need heat - south facing wall.
(I think check this on the internet).