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  • From: "crmauch" <mauch1@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Re: Growing peach seeds
  • Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:50:23 -0000

My problem is that some of the peaches I've gotten, where I wanted to
plant the seeds turned out to have shriveled seeds (looked
undeveloped) inside a normal looking pit. Any suggestion for weeding
out these "duds", i.e. floating them on water?

BTW, several months back we got giant Bosc pears from the market
(Really HUGE). They had no seeds in them. Very strange. Can anyone
explain this? I would have guessed that usually undeveloped seeds
would have caused the fruit to drop.

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6

--- In nafex@y..., davidu9999@a... wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I have always planted whole peach pits and have had good
germination. T.O.
> Warren told me years ago that the secret seems to be not to let the
stones
> dry out prior to planting. Therefore, you can either plant
immediately after
> ripe and keep protected from varmints and they will germinate the
following
> spring or store in moist peat until the fall and plant out, or
store in moist
> peat until fall and them put into the refrigerator for their
required cold
> stratification until planting in the spring. If you let them dry
out, it
> takes two years to germinate. Of course, you can crack out the
embryos and
> get good germination if you are careful. I always seemed to damage
more than
> I saved and it is easier to just plant fresh seed.
>
> David Ulmer
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


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