Grow a tree from a stone? Such thoughts are visited from time to time by everyone who loves to work in the garden or greenhouse. Especially if the hands are fragrant juicy peach with delicate pulp.
And if people learned how to grow lemons and pomegranates at home, then can easily get a peach tree .
For this you need to be patient and follow the recommendations of experienced gardeners.
Table of contents
Is it possible and how to properly grow a peach from a stone?
Choosing planting material
Choosing a grade
Choosing growing with
How to grow in a warm way?to grow peach pits correctly?
Choosing planting material
High-quality planting material - the key to success .Turkish or Spanish peaches, no matter how beautiful and tasty they are, are not suitable for planting in our latitudes.
Everyone knows that imported peaches are removed from trees long before biological maturity. This is the right approach, because at the onset of technical ripeness, fruits acquire a delicate flavor, retain nutrients and tolerate transportation over long distances.
But the pits of such fruits do not ripen the , and therefore you should not waste your time and energy on their germination.
In addition, southern varieties will not survive in our climate , because they are accustomed to more comfortable conditions. If the seedlings give seedlings, then the seedlings themselves will die without completing the right amount of sunlight and heat.
Choosing peaches for pitting need to be from zoned varieties, not from a grafted tree.
If you decide to plant a peach, go around the market in search of local fruit .The seller, who has grown his product in his own hands, will be happy to tell you how to care for the seedling in order to achieve fruiting.
It is great if the neighbor in the cottage shares the harvest. In any case, prepare a few bones. The germination of peach seeds is about 25%, some seedlings will die when grown, so the more seeds you collect, the better.
Be sure to ask which tree the peaches were taken from. Do not take fruits from the grafted tree, because the characteristics of the variety during cultivation are unlikely to correspond to the parent.
Only peaches from the own-rooted tree produce planting material capable of preserving the species.
Growing a peach from a pit is easier than ever:
Choosing a grade
The zoned varieties will feel better in a local climate, being satisfied with the amount of heat and lighting that nature of a particular region can give them.
Even if you decide to plant the seedlings in open ground, they will not be afraid of frost with proper care.
When choosing a peach variety, pay attention to the main characteristics.
Winter hardiness. If you plan to transplant a seedling into open ground, choose varieties with good winter hardiness and unpretentiousness to growing conditions.
Selfing. Many varieties are self-pollinated. But if you want to get a generous harvest, plant at least 3-4 peaches next to them, which will subsequently bear fruit.
Early ripening - for successful summer fruiting, it is recommended to plant early ripening varieties( July-first half of August)
The most popular early-ripening peaches: Early Rivers, Winner, Early Minion. Good winter hardiness in Amsden and Kiev early varieties, and high yields on white Nectarine, Krasnodar Nectarine, Redhaven and Nobles.
For pitting, prepare large, ripe, soft fruits with no signs of damage, rot or mildew. Free the bones from the pulp, rinse thoroughly under running warm water and dry. Pick stones without traces of pests and cracking.
Choosing a method of growing
Gardeners use three methods to grow peach trees from a stone.
Stratification, or the "cold way." An imitation of cold natural conditions is created so that the seeds are ready for germination and grow better.
With stratification, the shells soften, the seeds swell, complex organic substances turn into simple ones and are absorbed by the seed germ.
Extracting Seeds. "Fast way", which consists of splitting the stone and extracting the kernel. After extracting seeds from the seedlings, seedlings appear much earlier than during stratification.
Warm way. You can grow seeds in pots at room temperature and natural light.
Gardeners for growing peach trees from the bones use three methods: cold - stratification, warm and from extracted seeds.
Cold method, or stratification, at home. For these purposes, suitable compartment for storing vegetables in the refrigerator or basement.
Stratify seeds as follows:
Prepare a small, lidless container filled with wet sand or peat. Use coarse sand, separated from foreign particles and thoroughly washed.
Place the stones in the sand to a depth of 6-8 cm, place the container in a plastic bag with holes( for air to penetrate) and put in the refrigerator for winter time.
Regularly check the container, if necessary, moisten the sand or peat from the spray gun. The main thing is not to overdo it with watering, otherwise the seeds may rot.
After 3-4 months, the bones will “hatch” and sprouts of future peaches will appear.
Remove the container of sprouts from the refrigerator and plant the seedlings in the pots. Take pots with drainage holes. Use fertile soil from a mixture of leaf soil, peat and humus.
Place the pots of seedlings in a well-lit area.
Avoid sudden temperature changes. At first, provide the sprouts with a temperature regime of + 10 ° C, putting them on a glazed balcony or veranda.
After a few days, put the pots with sprouts in the room and maintain the temperature in the room + 18 + 20 ° С.Water moderately when the soil dries.
What is stratification. How to make stratification correctly:
Splitting and extracting seeds
A quick way to grow a tree from a stone for the impatient. If you do not want to wait until spring emergence of shoots.
Proceed as follows:
Split the washed and dried bones with a knife or hammer. Work with tools carefully, try not to damage the core of the bone.
Remove the seeds and put in warm water for 2-3 days to swell. Replace fresh water daily.
When you see that the seeds have swollen and increased in size, plant them in separate pots with drainage holes. Select the size of the pot taking into account the fact that the planting depth is 4-6 cm.
After planting, pour the seeds and cover the pots with glass or plastic wrap. Ventilate the greenhouses every day - remove the film, wipe the condensate and let's “breathe” the pots for a while. Remember, excessive moisture causes mold and mildew, which are detrimental to seeds and seedlings.
Remove the film after sprouting.
Remove the seeds and put in warm water for 2-3 days to swell, after planting, water the seeds and cover the pots with glass or plastic wrap.
Gardeners who grow peach pits, note that the seedling height reaches 0.5 m in 2-3 months.
How to germinate in the warm way
With this method, the peach pits are immediately planted in pots with soil mixture in the hope of waiting for the sprouts to appear in a few months.
Planting technology is simple:
Keep prepared bones for 6-10 days in the refrigerator. This will be a kind of short-term stratification.
Remove the bones from the refrigerator and soak for 2-3 hours in a growth stimulator.
Plant seeds in a moist soil mixture to a depth of 6-8 cm. Cover
with transparent polyethylene or glass, ventilate them daily and wipe condensate.
Germinate peaches at room temperature by placing the pots on a brightly lit window sill. Water as needed.
When sprouts appear in 3-4 months, remove the film and move the seedlings to a well-lit place without drafts and direct sunlight.
Peach bones are immediately planted in pots with soil mixture, after they have been kept in a refrigerator for 6-10 days.
Soil. Use loose fertile soil from peat, humus, sand and leafy earth in proportions of 1: 1: 1: 2.
Lighting. Provide good lighting. With a lack of sunlight, use LED phytolamps, which will give the necessary spectrum and accelerate the growth of plants.
Watering. Water the soil regularly. Reduce watering at the time of ripening and during the rest period.
Temperature. In winter, provide a temperature of + 2 + 4 ° С, with the onset of spring during flowering + 10 + 15 ° С, and after flowering + 18 + 25 ° С.
Provide the tree with a winter period of rest. At this time, watering significantly reduce, refuse additional lighting and ensure the plant temperature + 2 + 4 ° C.Resume normal care after waking up the kidneys.
Feeding. Starting from March, feed the plants with mineral and organic fertilizers every two weeks. From September, stop feeding. From organic fertilizers, use a nutritious infusion of humus.
Transplant. Replant the seedling as it grows into a larger pot in early spring( before flowering) or early September.
Trimming. When the side shoots begin to grow, and the height of the main trunk is 70 cm, proceed to the formation of the crown.
Fruiting occurs on the side branches of the tree, so you can not give the seedling grow up. Spend the main pruning next spring. Annually cut and pinch vigorous shoots.
For the seedlings to survive and gain strength, it is necessary to create favorable conditions for them, including the winter dormancy.
Planting a tree in the open ground at the cottage.
In usual apartment conditions, it is impossible to provide the seedling with the necessary temperature regime depending on the season. But if all the conditions can be met, then for the first year the young peach will grow to 1.5 m .
Plan your for March of next year or the beginning of September to transplant peach into open ground. If you plant several seedlings, observe the interval between them in 3-4 meters.
The same distance should be to adult plants, which give extensive shade, and to the walls of buildings on the site. Place for landing, choose a well-lit, but protected from drafts.
Before planting the peach , dig a hole about 1 m deep, apply organic fertilizer and dig up the well. Plant a seedling and tamp the ground. Spit the pristvolny circles with water at room temperature and cover with a layer of mulch or humus.
A plant grown from a stone at home in the first 2-3 years after transplantation into open ground should be given special attention, because it is still poorly adapted to weather conditions.
Plan to transplant peach seedlings to open ground in March of the next year or the beginning of September.
For winter, wrap a tree with sacking or non-woven and warm the trunk with glass wool. Take care of the root system - so that it does not freeze over, cover the soil of the trunk circle with a thick layer of fallen leaves or spruce leaves.
In open field, young trees can be attacked by aphids, shchitovki, spider mites and moths. Of the peach diseases, scab, leaf curl, powdery mildew, fruit rot, claster psoriosis and moniliosis are characteristic.
To protect seedlings, regularly prune the dried and cracked shoots of and carry out preventive treatment with insecticides.
The process of growing a peach tree from a stone is simple, but takes time and patience. With the proper care of , in 2-3 years fragrant and juicy fruits of will appear, and the harvest can be harvested within 10-12 years.
Cultivation of peaches is practiced even in the harsh conditions of Siberia, so that in our latitudes we can safely take up the experiment.
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Choosing peaches for pitting need to be from zoned varieties, not from a grafted tree. 
Gardeners for growing peach trees from the bones use three methods: cold - stratification, warm and from extracted seeds. 
Remove the seeds and put in warm water for 2-3 days to swell, after planting, water the seeds and cover the pots with glass or plastic wrap. 
Peach bones are immediately planted in pots with soil mixture, after they have been kept in a refrigerator for 6-10 days. 
For the seedlings to survive and gain strength, it is necessary to create favorable conditions for them, including the winter dormancy. 
Plan to transplant peach seedlings to open ground in March of the next year or the beginning of September. 
