How to Grow a Peach Plant From the Pit
If you enjoy the taste of ripe peaches, you don't have to keep buying them at the store. You can grow your own at home. If you eat peaches, start saving your pits: they can turn into fruitful peach trees in just a few years. If you want to grow your own peach tree from a pit, all you need to do is follow a few simple steps. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Remove the pit from a recently-eaten peach and wash the fruit off of it. Lay it out to dry overnight. For best results, do this with at least four or five peach pits to make sure that one of them turns into a tree (some of them may not germinate).
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Put the dried pits into a plastic bag and zip it nearly closed - leave one inch open at the top. Place the bag in your refrigerator, and soon you should see slight condensation around the top of the bag. If you do not see this after a day or two, sprinkle some water in the bag and shake it up, then drain out the excess and return it to your refrigerator.
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Store the pits in the refrigerator until December. Take the pits out of the refrigerator and soak for three or four hours in tap water.
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Place the soaked pits in a plastic bag with soil or perlite, available from a local garden supply store. Return to the refrigerator; after about one or two months, check for germination. If the pits are showing roots of 1.5 inches or more, they are ready to plant.
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Plant the germinated pits in their own pots, just like any other plant. Bury them in potting soil approximately two inches deep and keep moist with water (but not soaking) until spring.
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When the danger of frost has past, plant your peach seedlings outside in your yard. In approximately two or three years, your peach trees will bear fruit for you to enjoy.
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Tips & Warnings
To help ensure that your peach pits will germinate, try removing the seeds from the hulls (pits). Be careful when cutting the pits open that you do not split the seeds inside.
