If I plant pits from fruit purchased at the grocery store will they grow?

Question

I planted peach, plum, and apricot pits. Although, I thought I heard somewhere that seeds and pits from grocery store produce won't grow.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

You need to leave them outside untill after winter comes..

if you're lucky..they'll sprout in spring

Answer 2

I have a great deal of peaches here grown from peach pits. I haven't had to crack a thing. But, what I DO do is compost the pits. I can about 2 dozen quarts of peaches each year. The pits from canning them go into the compost. A year later, I get bunches of baby peach trees.  

  The compost breaks down the pit. You might want to use a weak vinegar solution and then freeze your pits in the freezer for a few months.  Then plant them.  Be sure to keep the pot or area that you planted the pits in well watered.  

  If you have a compost pile, just do as I do!  My trees are doing very well and peaches from seed tend to be like the plant they grew from.  

Good luck!

Oh, and in case it helps, I have a seed starting page that might just be of some help:

http://home.att.net/~ekyorigins/seedsx.h...

Answer 3

Yeah I do it all the time. Just make sure thaat you clean off the seed really well because my mom always told me that if the seed has any fruit or fruit juice on it, then the see will refuse to grow because it will think that  it is still in the friut.

But make sure it is an appropriate spot. When I was little I got curious and planted a cherry seed right next to my house, thinking that cherries would grow on little vines or bushes, but a tree grew and started growing on the side of my house and it scratched the paint off the side.... We got rid of it eventually.

Have fun gardening!

Answer 4

Unless they have been irradiated, they should grow.

Answer 5

I have tried for years to plant the Fruit seeds and never get anything. I think the outter seed has to be opened or broken somehow to get the inner seed to grow. I even tried that to no avail. But I do grow Green Peppers, and Tomatoes and Melons from the seeds(from the grocery store)

Answer 6

lol not uness u cracked open the pit and got the seed from INSIDE the pit! lol, i hope i helped hunn

Answer 7

If you are talking about plants with large seeds like avocados and peaches, you can grow them from their large seeds. First you must clean the seeds from much of its flesh as possible. Then let it dry for a few days. It activates their reproduction process. Then insert 3 or 4 tooth picks at the middle of the seed and put it in water solution with a bit of starting fertilizer. Make sure the bottom side of the seed is immersed in water. Pointed side indicates the up position. Don't immerse the seed too deep into the water as it will rot. In a few weeks, you should start seeing roots growing from the bottom of the seed. Do not plant them in the grownd until you see top growth starting to show.

Send me a guacamole when it's a seccsess, haha.