As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
This method from the 1840's in growing peach trees from seeds interested me, as I wondered if they required over wintering as in England in the cold, like apples are said to have a need in seeds, but then information is posted in people putting apple seeds as I have into the fridge to sprout, and that certainly was not below zero weather, and it is something I will not have information on, until I attempt to sprout my next batch of apple seeds.
It appears with peach trees or any of the soft fruits that one should not prune them as they are prone to diseases. Mine have always frozen out, so I never had anything live long enough to get a disease.
I include this method though as one has refrigeration now, so it would solve the digging a hole for the pits part and going through that mess, and this would make it simple then, to crack the pit, get the stone and plant it.
Once again, I have no idea if one could sprout these in the fridge like apples or if a covered plastic pot in a warm location would be a better method.
"In raising peach trees from the stone, our method has been to expose the stones to the frosts of winter, and sow in the following spring. In the fall of 1841, we thus exposed half a bushel of stones to the frost, by placing them in a shallow hole in the ground, slightly covered with earth, where they remained until the spring; we then cracked them carefully, and sowed in rows on the 13th of April, 1842, in a light loamy soil. These grew well; and on the first week in September, of the same season, we budded nine hundred out of one thousand trees."
Manning, Robert, 1784-1842. The New England book of fruit
How delightful it would be to have one hundred wee baby peach trees, all turning into peach trees, and seeing if they would be good peaches or only for the insects.
"Cool the pit, crack the pit and plant the stone".
- Lame Cherry
Fruit from stones.
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