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[Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>]

I wouldn't recommend starting peach seeds indoors in yogurt containers as the 
seeds are so big you would fill your fridge up with little containers.  
However, I can tell you that those big (6" x 16") shallow plastic clamshell 
Lumberjack sandwich containers from the local grocery can be filled with 1" 
of dirt, paved with peach seeds and then covered with another 1/2" of damp 
dirt and put it in a plastic bag to cold stratify in the fridge for 6 weeks!  
The peaches sprouted at a really uneven rate so I transplanted everything 
from 3" tall baby trees to just split pits, but all looks good after 2 days.

The plum seeds come from my father-in-laws patch of 50 year old plum bushes 
gone wild so I stuck them in the dirt since I can get lots more if I need to.

Sarah
Zone 3
Edm, AB

--- On Sun, 3/15/09, william Eggers <wce1482@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Can you grow peaches and plums the same way?
> 
> --- On Sun, 3/15/09, Naomi Counides

> I have grown hundreds of apples and pears from seed. I take
> a 500ml/1pint
> yogurt or sour cream container and punch some drainage
> holes in the bottom.
> I fill it half full of moist dirt, layer my seeds in
> thickly and then cover
> them with 1/2 inch of moist dirt.  Then I place the
> container in a plastic
> bag and put the whole works in the back of the bottom shelf
> of my fridge for
> 6 weeks.  After the cold stratification is done, I pull
> them out and place
> them on a shelf over a heat vent and watch them grow! When
> the seedlings are
> about an inch or two high, I tip over the container
> removing and gently
> breaking up the root clump before transplanting them
> individually into 1
> liter/1 quart milk cartons with drainage hole punched in
> the bottom.  I like
> to place the cartons in those shallow 40 liter underbed
> bins so I can move
> them in and out of the house to harden off without
> destroying the cartons.
> 
> 
> I prefer to start my seeds in January as I seem to get two
> seasons of growth
> that way: they put on 12-18 inches in the house and then
> repeat that once
> they are planted out (sad growth for one year I know, but
> it's a cool and
> short summer up here!).  If you collect seeds from grocery
> store apples in
> Jan/Feb, you can even skip the cold stratification step as
> apparently cold
> storage since harvest has already done that for you.
> 
> I just transplanted my quince, peaches (Tzim Pee Tao, Chui
> Lum Tao, and
> Bailey) and Klapperton Red pears yesterday (the Ranetka and
> local apples as
> well as Siberian Pears, apricots and plums are outside this
> year!).
> 
> Sarah
> zone 3
> Edmonton, AB
> 
> 
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