Here's a new video showing you how I grow watermelons from start to finish - ua-cam.com/video/md0as5LQPHs/v-deo.html Thanks heaps for watching - I hope you found it useful or interesting in some way. Feel free to share the video with a friend who might also enjoy it :). Hope to see you in the next one! 🌱
Just wanted to ask if you ever tried playing macadamias before? I tried doing a batch once and a few of them germinated but they either ended up getting eaten by ants or even rotting away after germination and the only one that sprouted leaves also didn't survive I'm not sure if it's getting too much water or if there's was something else going on with that one
I was weeding my compost pile one spring and came across a "weird weed". When I plucked it I noticed peach pit halves fell away. Thats when I realized what it really was and so I transplanted it. Surprisingly it thrived and provide some of the best peaches we have.
@@FilthySoapCore I don’t believe apples grow true to seed, it’s super rare. Most likely you’ll end up with crab apples - which are tart but are good for making apple jelly’s. The tarter the fruit, the sweeter the pie.
I wish someone had explained this to me when I was at school, I must have planted a hundred pits in the summer and none grew, I should have put them in soil and then in the cooler...who knew!! now, I want to try this again!
yeah, school doesn't actually teach kids about the real world in any meaningful way. Mostly just a bunch of abstractions that may or not be useful for you depending on your career path.
@@Greenthumb6a correct if the dwarfism is due to the stock plant, some plants naturally have dwarfing characteristics as a genetic mutation but it is rare.
So glad to see someone advocating for growing from seed. Some gardeners are so impatient, wanting fruit from a tree they just put in the ground. So impatient that they claim it's impossible to grow any fruit from seed, even though that's how people have been getting fruit for most of history. Even with those that don't breed true to type, sometimes there's excitement in seeing what comes out. If the fruit isn't tasty, then you have rootstock to graft onto, so there's really no loss in my eyes. Plus the joy of watching your babies grow
if you want an exact peach tree you need to take a cutting from your best tree use (use hard --brown not green wood ) about 14 in long late fall stand in water jar i inch deep so they dont dry out you can leave out side next spring it will sprout leaves then place in pots to try rooting if it roots those peaches will be like mother tree the dna is in the limbs not he seeds -----if you plant a seed dont know what type you willl get
I agree with this except there's a lot of misinformation out there about the results. Any time I tell anyone one of my trees is grown from seed they say "Oh there's no way the fruit will be any good!" I get that even if the other person doesn't really know about plants... If all the parents are tasty, the offspring tend to also be tasty...at least enough for jams and pies. If not, like you said, you have rootstock for grafting cuttings. 🤷♀️I wouldn't be at ALL surprised if it turned out this misinformation was spread by supermarkets.
I grew up in house with about 8 peach trees, all grown from seed. The peach you called "large" was smaller than the smallest ones produced by all the trees. Some of them we so big and so juicy that you needed to use both hands to pick them if you wanted to do so safely. They produced so many that the neighbors got all they needed and the freezer was filled each season.
I actually crack open the shell, place in water in the fridge for 24 hours, then peel the seed coat. This allows them to germinate in about 4-6 days. I've done this soon after harvesting and the trees survived the winter. I live in Ohio, so this is pretty astonishing. Also, I get about 90 percent germination.
Yes you can do it immediately after eating the peach. I’d recommend in norther areas to get the plant large enough before winter. I had most of mine survive in ohio. Buried them in mulch in my barn and watered a few times over winter. Had a few survive in the ground as well. Mulched them up too
I misread your comment. After peeling the skin i kept them in a damp paper towel for a few days before putting in cups of dirt. You could probably go straight into fort tho.
I did this with a nectarine I bought in the super market here in the US, we sold the house I planted it at a few years ago and it was producing fruit every year. I'm sure those who bought the house probably enjoy the free fruit.
These video's never disappoint! I recently moved from my parents house to my own, and my entire garden is now filled with edible plants/fruit trees. There's just something so satisfying about growing something you can eat!
In Virginia, and across the Midwest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, farmers would save all of the pits and plant them out, as they did with all of the seeds from fruits that they raised. They'd put them along the boundaries of fields so that they'd grow up into natural hedges the would yield fruit, if only for livestock feed. The inferiority of the fruit didn't matter, really, but this is how we got lots of varieties of excellent fruits, in the genetic lottery using thousands of plants. They'd also sow fruit seeds on unarable land to produce an endless supply of easy firewood. Again, the fruit could be good, which was wonderful, or it could be inferior, which didn't matter: peach wood, apple wood, and the rest grow quickly, are easily cut, and burn with a fine fragrance.
Just curious...have you ever eaten a Pawpaw? I'm on a mission to fulfill this one on my bucket list. I've spent 3 days calling all over Iowa to find the closest patch to me. Wish me luck!😃🍀🥭
We will be planting a whole bunch; you gave us some good advice! The fruit trees are great for flavorful barbequing too.We like to slow cook meat in a smoker.
If you want to plant peach or nectarine seeds, make sure that they are not pollinated by almond (resulting a dry fruit like almonds, used mostly as rootstock or for back-crossing), because this is possible, and sometimes apricots and plums. Also, since you want to grow from seeds, you may want to delve into cross-pollinating different cultivars you liked, to see the interesting results.
I'm with you on the peach fuzz, I don't mind the feeling of it on my fingers but I could never bite one without peeling. That's why I always go with nectarine instead.
Same here! I LOVE nectarines! I typically end up eating canned peaches so I don't have to peel them. ;) it would be interesting to see if there is a peach/nectarine hybrid that tasted like a peach, but without the fuzzy skin. :) If not, may have to see if it's possible. ;)
This is the best video on how to grow peach or nectarines from seed. This is how you make good videos. No nonsense video. It must have taken a lot of patience. The kiwi accent is like a cherry on the top.
When I first grew peaches from seed I had one seed sprout in spring and the second seed sprout a year later! Similar method only I used a hack saw to remove the seed. I'm currently growing an apricot from seed because I kept eating the fruit around the tree and discarding the seeds around the tree. Had apricot seedlings growing everywhere 😅
Thank you so much. Our neighbour can home yesterday with a bag of heritage peaches. He found a tree on a job so got permission to pick some. Not living in the Waikato anymore, l find I’m on a learning curve now with gardening. I’m definitely going to have to place my pips in the fridge as we don’t really get cold winters up here in the Far North.
My wife feels the same way about peach skin. So I planted her a nectarine. Your red peach reminded me of one that I had that was called Red Barron. But it was red throughout, It was a great peach. But it was an early season producer and the Plum Cucurlio really hammered it. So I switched to early producing varieties. The down side is that I do sometimes lose almost the entire crop to a late freeze. Thanks for going to the trouble to show the different stages of the trees many months apart.
Excellent video bro! I didn't expect you to have so many time-lapse progress updates. Bloody brilliant :D I also didn't know about the stunted growth from non-stratified seeds. That's great knowledge to share.
That was AMAZING! You tell it like it is with no faffing about and keeping it simple. Thanks heaps can’t wait to give it a go. Just subbed can’t wait to watch more of your vids. Peace, love and positive vibes to you from across the pond. 💗☮️🌺🐨🇦🇺
been throwing plum , peach and nectarine stones in the garden after eating .Squirrels eat most of them . Every spring I get at least 15 young plants . I pot them up and give away. I have no room in my garden !!!! They grow so well and quick here in London up against a wall or near a warm cement /slab path .....Plums do really really well , sweet and juicy
Man, what I love most about your videos is showing the progress in one video. You plan your videos so well, my guy. I think I may just drop some seeds in a pot and hope for a decent winter here in south aussie.
This was awesome and restored my drive to get mine all the way to fruiting! I have a few peach trees that volunteered near my garden in an area i was letting get overgrown. These would be either seeds that germinated from my grandpa's old peachtrees he grew years ago or maybe a sprout from an old root system. I really dont know but am clearing out the surronding to give them light and stuff. I bought my grandparents house a few years ago and have taken a keen liking to gardening and he has since passed. I didnt even notice the trees until about this past spring, a couple years after he passed and there are about 4-5 or so. I was worried they wouldnt be viable or produce fruit but was going to try none the less to get them all the way to fruit. My plan is to keep one or two, and give the remaining two or three away to family ready to go in ground. I will definitely be letting them all get to fruit thanks to your video!
I don't mind the skin, I actually like the taste, but the pit does send goosebumps down my spine! I hate biting down too hard in case my teeth touch the pit :')
I’m thinking about just planting the inner seed in the ground without potting soil etc. How deep should I plant it, and when should I plant it and how much should I water it before it sprouts , and how much should I water it after it sprouts ?
I knew it could be done without busting open the case because I put some eaten pits of nectarine on the counter for two days in a paper towel wet and they both sprouted that fast. You are the only one who admitted it could be done.
I'm glad I found your video by accident my son's and I planted some seed last year this video gives me an idea of what type of peach I might have and what it looks like they're about 4 inches high this year and we're going to be planting them in the yard we have over a dozen a little excited about that
Thanks for a great video on peaches from seed! This seems like a very sweet peach! Thanks for sharing! If the peach fuzz bothers you try nectarines, and they come in yellow , or white! Thanks for sharing the miracles of creation!! James Peaches grow very well in Pennsylvania, in America, and some grow to be over one pound fruits! Good work!
New sub! I got two peach trees I bought from a chain store, they've produced every year I had them... this year I saved every pit I could from canning and got over 100 seeds! Hoping to have some trees I can plant for the deer
I lived in Germany (Dresden) for 10 years (I’m Swedish and now living in Sweden again) In Germany I had a “Kleingarten “ In the garden there was a peach tree. It was grown by the former owner from a seed when he was a young man approximately 50 years ago. Very delicious big fruits.
Hey Kiwi, Great video. My girlfriend is a kiwi in America. She's a hoot. Now then, my grandfather grew many peach trees from pits, 60 years back. He had heard of grafting, but never learned the method of development. Although, he raised many peach seedlings. Six months back, my kiwi and I went to a well known pick your own peaches, near here. We saved all the stones and threw most in a bag in the bottom of the fridge. I have gotten a few to emerge and grow to seedlings. So now, I am ordering some certified rootstock and will start an orchard with that. I will graft my seedlings onto the stock and later will toss any that don't taste really good. Thanks for your video.
@@TheKiwiGrower Yes, I want to try and have a 50 tree orchard that is semi-dwarf, say about 15 ft (4.5 meters) tall. Also, some rootstocks are more vigorous and disease resistant than the original trees.
If ever you discover from one of your unique seed cultivars a variety of peach tree immune to the dreaded peach tree leaf curl, please patent it. Great video - I wish I knew all this before. 👍
Perfect timing, I have a bunch of blackboy peaches and was wanting to try growing from their pits, especially as their heirlooms from a neigh ours tree! Thank you as always for the video, it's great to see a kiwi doing this as well, so I know these things will probably grow ok here in our lovely unpredictable climate 😀
Ok I have already a little peach tree from seed and now I know when I can plant it in the ground and how. Thank you very much! I wish I will eat its peaches one day 🥰
Yes, I have one, it's a red peach that I grew from seeds. Apricot and nectarines are another that grows true to the seed. My best nectarines came from seeds from a volunteer that popped up in my yard. That volunteer came from an old tree that was cut down. I can't wait to grow more stone fruits from seeds. :)
I can relate to the peach skin problem. Horrors. Gave me chills just thinking about it. Useful information for anyone who likes to grow and harvest fruit.
Subbed Funny story for ya all. I grew up in Blenheim 60, 70s, Lived on a road right on a river. My younger brother and I discovered over the river one afternoon a peach tree with ripe fruit in someone's back yard so we raided it for a couple of peaches each, ran of then scoffed them down. Went home only to have our parents ask us what we had been eating as our lips were bright red, we didn't know that but we told them a couple of peaches we'd found on somebody's tree. Didn't get in trouble for it and didn't think anymore of it. Woke up next morning to find our parents had themselves gone and raided the tree, they took the lot. Put it this way, we saw the evidence right there on the kitchen table. A box full of black boy peaches. I think we also propagated a tree from them in the years following. Naughty kids but naughty parents as well huh. Long time ago with a lot of water under the bridge since those days. Makes me smile the memory but I'm not one who would do such these days. Peoples stuff is sacred to me now.
I've got a tree about 8 years old that popped up in my yard from a seed I apparently threw out there. Funny it turns out to be about the same color of red that yours is. Delicious fruit that ripens late in August. It came through a hard freeze this year while in full bloom, about 25 degrees F. Don't know how it came out with fruit from that but enough that I still had to thin it out. Tough tree.
for anyone interested - I put the pits into a bag of moist sand and left in the fridge for 6 weeks, they all germinated in the bag and then potted on. Good way to save yourself cracking the pits
I love experimenting with trees. A couple years ago i grafted a few peach and apricot branches into the base of a large plum tree hoping that some of the grafts would survive. They all did, and they are fruiting.
I've got a seed planted red peach I'm hoping to get fruit from this year for the first time. We're lucky to love gardening so much. Thanks for your channel.
I am amazed at how much force it takes with the vice grips to break apart the “stone” pit. Maybe it’s adapted to survive a large animals digestive tract. Letting the pit dry a bit I think helps it crack open easier but not sure long drying is good for seed inside. Gina try the bench vise. And will wear safely glasses.
I’m with you re peach skin. It’s the only fruit I buy in a tin, for that reason only. There are other textures I can’t touch, including velvet and cotton wool.
I am the same way about hairy peach skin...It's like chewing on flannel and yes it give's me the heebeejeebees. Rubbing the skin on a towel and then rinsing the peach off helps remove a major proportion of the hair. Either that or cut slices out of the peach so you aren't biting through the skin from the outside.
Fabulous video, I really like that you've followed the whole process through over a year, so we can see the results. I'm really interested in the comparison with the shell left on, its obviously worth cracking them! My seed grown peach and nectarine trees are just volunteers from the compost lol! So pretty random but hugely happy with them - lovely fruit and the nectarines ripen at different times - some trees in early summer some now right at the end of summer - so useful! My favourite is a peach tree that produces the most incredible fruit - these deeply orange / peach coloured fruits with the most deep, sweet flavour - definitely worth doing! I'm about to put some plum and peach seeds out in pots, I was going to throw them in whole but will crack them after seeing this! Though I may experiment with the plums....
100% with you on the peach fuzz. Cannot stand it on my tongue. I usually slice into wedges thin enough to fold back on itself to eat. I prefer nectarines, as the flavour is similar with no fuzz. Wish I lived where I could grow a peach tree. They just don't do well in Alberta, Canada. - Cheers
I was told to put the pits in the freezer for an extended time before planting them. Never tried it, but I thought about having my own peach tree often over the years.
so nice to see you fast forward and the growth of the trees. i always make sure i crack the hard shell of seeds. i tried it with cherry seeds i bought from a supermarket. so satisfying.
So much effort for one video over such a long period of time. Really enjoyed the video. I did a batch of apricots and mandarins from seed this year. I love growing mangos and avocados from seed! A bit more hit and miss with fruiting I find (so grafting would be better) but there’s nothing more satisfying then growing your own fruit tree with delicious fruit!!
Cheers! That's cool that you're growing some fruits from seed too. Hope they work out good for you :) And you're right, so satisfying to watch the whole process from the beginning!
Here's a new video showing you how I grow watermelons from start to finish - ua-cam.com/video/md0as5LQPHs/v-deo.html
Thanks heaps for watching - I hope you found it useful or interesting in some way. Feel free to share the video with a friend who might also enjoy it :). Hope to see you in the next one! 🌱
Just wanted to ask if you ever tried playing macadamias before?
I tried doing a batch once and a few of them germinated but they either ended up getting eaten by ants or even rotting away after germination and the only one that sprouted leaves also didn't survive I'm not sure if it's getting too much water or if there's was something else going on with that one
Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible to grow tahitian chestnuts in our nz climate as compared to a tropical climate?
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Listening to your comment about skin goosebumps, likewise 😆
I would have loved to see the inside of one peach! is it a red one, at last?
Man you watch too much UA-cam 😀😀
FINALLY someone who actually shows an update from seed to tree in the same video!
So those trees from seed don’t need grafting to produce fruit early? How long is the difference between grafted and non grafted tree fruiting ?
I was weeding my compost pile one spring and came across a "weird weed". When I plucked it I noticed peach pit halves fell away. Thats when I realized what it really was and so I transplanted it. Surprisingly it thrived and provide some of the best peaches we have.
I had the same with an apple seed! She’s growing so strong
Some seeds are so determined
@@FilthySoapCore I don’t believe apples grow true to seed, it’s super rare. Most likely you’ll end up with crab apples - which are tart but are good for making apple jelly’s.
The tarter the fruit, the sweeter the pie.
That is so awesome! How long did it take from seed to fruit?
@@NextLevelMeNow I don't remember, but it didnt seem to take very long. Just a few years.
Very cool story!
I wish someone had explained this to me when I was at school, I must have planted a hundred pits in the summer and none grew, I should have put them in soil and then in the cooler...who knew!! now, I want to try this again!
Awesome, good luck with it if you have another go :)
@@TheKiwiGrower can’t do that with semi dwarf or dwarf trees though because of the root graft right?
yeah, school doesn't actually teach kids about the real world in any meaningful way. Mostly just a bunch of abstractions that may or not be useful for you depending on your career path.
@@Greenthumb6a correct if the dwarfism is due to the stock plant, some plants naturally have dwarfing characteristics as a genetic mutation but it is rare.
@@biggreenblob dude, it would be nice if they teach how to cultivate or do other important stuff that should be basic knowledge.
So glad to see someone advocating for growing from seed. Some gardeners are so impatient, wanting fruit from a tree they just put in the ground. So impatient that they claim it's impossible to grow any fruit from seed, even though that's how people have been getting fruit for most of history. Even with those that don't breed true to type, sometimes there's excitement in seeing what comes out. If the fruit isn't tasty, then you have rootstock to graft onto, so there's really no loss in my eyes. Plus the joy of watching your babies grow
Totally agree! Some things are worth waiting for and the level of satisfaction is much higher IMO. Journey over destination 😁
The problem is the garden is so small :( so i want the trees to be success….. i would love to try more out, but the place is limited
if you want an exact peach tree you need to take a cutting from your best tree use (use hard --brown not green wood ) about 14 in long late fall stand in water jar i inch deep so they dont dry out you can leave out side next spring it will sprout leaves then place in pots to try rooting if it roots those peaches will be like mother tree the dna is in the limbs not he seeds -----if you plant a seed dont know what type you willl get
Hybrids don’t make this very easy.
I agree with this except there's a lot of misinformation out there about the results. Any time I tell anyone one of my trees is grown from seed they say "Oh there's no way the fruit will be any good!" I get that even if the other person doesn't really know about plants... If all the parents are tasty, the offspring tend to also be tasty...at least enough for jams and pies. If not, like you said, you have rootstock for grafting cuttings. 🤷♀️I wouldn't be at ALL surprised if it turned out this misinformation was spread by supermarkets.
I grew up in house with about 8 peach trees, all grown from seed. The peach you called "large" was smaller than the smallest ones produced by all the trees. Some of them we so big and so juicy that you needed to use both hands to pick them if you wanted to do so safely. They produced so many that the neighbors got all they needed and the freezer was filled each season.
I’ve been trying to grow peaches for 4 years now, but this video has given me so much more knowledge about planting them that I didn’t know
Great to hear. Hope you have success with it! :)
Did it work
I actually crack open the shell, place in water in the fridge for 24 hours, then peel the seed coat. This allows them to germinate in about 4-6 days. I've done this soon after harvesting and the trees survived the winter. I live in Ohio, so this is pretty astonishing. Also, I get about 90 percent germination.
At what point do you plant the seed? Immediately after peeling the skin?
Yes you can do it immediately after eating the peach. I’d recommend in norther areas to get the plant large enough before winter. I had most of mine survive in ohio. Buried them in mulch in my barn and watered a few times over winter. Had a few survive in the ground as well. Mulched them up too
I misread your comment. After peeling the skin i kept them in a damp paper towel for a few days before putting in cups of dirt. You could probably go straight into fort tho.
@@stuttgurth Once you out then in a damp paper towel, did you put them back in the refrigerator, or leave them at room temperature?
I keep them at room temperature. Be sure to change the paper towel every day to prevent mold
The patience this man had in making this video is amazing!
I did this with a nectarine I bought in the super market here in the US, we sold the house I planted it at a few years ago and it was producing fruit every year. I'm sure those who bought the house probably enjoy the free fruit.
Your videos are so fun to watch and so informative too! Thank you for the time and effort you put into these videos!~ They always come out awesome!!
Cheers Mario, really appreciate it! 😁
These video's never disappoint!
I recently moved from my parents house to my own, and my entire garden is now filled with edible plants/fruit trees. There's just something so satisfying about growing something you can eat!
In Virginia, and across the Midwest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, farmers would save all of the pits and plant them out, as they did with all of the seeds from fruits that they raised. They'd put them along the boundaries of fields so that they'd grow up into natural hedges the would yield fruit, if only for livestock feed. The inferiority of the fruit didn't matter, really, but this is how we got lots of varieties of excellent fruits, in the genetic lottery using thousands of plants. They'd also sow fruit seeds on unarable land to produce an endless supply of easy firewood. Again, the fruit could be good, which was wonderful, or it could be inferior, which didn't matter: peach wood, apple wood, and the rest grow quickly, are easily cut, and burn with a fine fragrance.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Just curious...have you ever eaten a Pawpaw? I'm on a mission to fulfill this one on my bucket list. I've spent 3 days calling all over Iowa to find the closest patch to me. Wish me luck!😃🍀🥭
Wouldn‘t this be illegal now, because the fruits and vegetables farmers are allowed to grow all have a patent on them?
We will be planting a whole bunch; you gave us some good advice! The fruit trees are great for flavorful barbequing too.We like to slow cook meat in a smoker.
@@ariesx6515 no...not illegal at all
If you want to plant peach or nectarine seeds, make sure that they are not pollinated by almond (resulting a dry fruit like almonds, used mostly as rootstock or for back-crossing), because this is possible, and sometimes apricots and plums.
Also, since you want to grow from seeds, you may want to delve into cross-pollinating different cultivars you liked, to see the interesting results.
Thanks for the info!
That's really useful info, thank you!
Thats what got me excited from this videos and every fruit, veggie or pepper is the infinite possibilities of crosses & hybrids!
or let nature do it
Agreed. The hybrids between almonds and peaches have fruit that is small, hard to ripen, and relatively dry and unappetizing flesh.
I'm with you on the peach fuzz, I don't mind the feeling of it on my fingers but I could never bite one without peeling. That's why I always go with nectarine instead.
Fair call!
Same here! I LOVE nectarines! I typically end up eating canned peaches so I don't have to peel them. ;) it would be interesting to see if there is a peach/nectarine hybrid that tasted like a peach, but without the fuzzy skin. :) If not, may have to see if it's possible. ;)
Same here. I peel them.
Beautiful peach. It looks like the color of a Santa Rosa plum inside.
What?! Ive had some amazing peaches and never skipped the skin, lol.
@@gwendyrose8905 Nectarines are in fact, peaches that have been cultivated to grow without the fuzz.
Thank you for taking the time to show us from start to finish in one video....much appreciated 👍 watching from Greece
I didn't know that peaches grew pretty much true to type from seed
Thanks Kalem another great video
Glad I could share something new with you. Cheers Mark!
This is the best video on how to grow peach or nectarines from seed. This is how you make good videos. No nonsense video. It must have taken a lot of patience. The kiwi accent is like a cherry on the top.
Haha thanks so much!
Very cool! Ive never seen a peach with pinkish red insides. It looks so pretty and full of juice 🥰👍
So juicy! 😁
I've NEVER seen a peach this color, it looks delicious.
When I first grew peaches from seed I had one seed sprout in spring and the second seed sprout a year later! Similar method only I used a hack saw to remove the seed.
I'm currently growing an apricot from seed because I kept eating the fruit around the tree and discarding the seeds around the tree. Had apricot seedlings growing everywhere 😅
Thank you so much. Our neighbour can home yesterday with a bag of heritage peaches.
He found a tree on a job so got permission to pick some.
Not living in the Waikato anymore, l find I’m on a learning curve now with gardening. I’m definitely going to have to place my pips in the fridge as we don’t really get cold winters up here in the Far North.
I frogot that you live in new zealand! So for people in the northen hemisfere, now it's the perfect time to plant seeds.
My wife feels the same way about peach skin. So I planted her a nectarine.
Your red peach reminded me of one that I had that was called Red Barron. But it was red throughout, It was a great peach. But it was an early season producer and the Plum Cucurlio really hammered it. So I switched to early producing varieties. The down side is that I do sometimes lose almost the entire crop to a late freeze.
Thanks for going to the trouble to show the different stages of the trees many months apart.
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"It isn't much, but it's honest work"
- Peach tree 2022
Gold star for participation!
@@TheKiwiGrower lol
This was a great video on the process without making it unnecessarily long. Super informative. Thank you.
Excellent video bro! I didn't expect you to have so many time-lapse progress updates. Bloody brilliant :D
I also didn't know about the stunted growth from non-stratified seeds. That's great knowledge to share.
Cheers Julian, glad you liked it! :)
Very fine nylon fabrics give me the sensation you're talking about with the peach skin.
That was AMAZING! You tell it like it is with no faffing about and keeping it simple. Thanks heaps can’t wait to give it a go. Just subbed can’t wait to watch more of your vids. Peace, love and positive vibes to you from across the pond. 💗☮️🌺🐨🇦🇺
Cheers Sandra and welcome to the channel! :)
been throwing plum , peach and nectarine stones in the garden after eating .Squirrels eat most of them . Every spring I get at least 15 young plants . I pot them up and give away. I have no room in my garden !!!! They grow so well and quick here in London up against a wall or near a warm cement /slab path .....Plums do really really well , sweet and juicy
Man, what I love most about your videos is showing the progress in one video. You plan your videos so well, my guy. I think I may just drop some seeds in a pot and hope for a decent winter here in south aussie.
Cheers! Hope it goes well!
This was awesome and restored my drive to get mine all the way to fruiting!
I have a few peach trees that volunteered near my garden in an area i was letting get overgrown. These would be either seeds that germinated from my grandpa's old peachtrees he grew years ago or maybe a sprout from an old root system. I really dont know but am clearing out the surronding to give them light and stuff. I bought my grandparents house a few years ago and have taken a keen liking to gardening and he has since passed. I didnt even notice the trees until about this past spring, a couple years after he passed and there are about 4-5 or so. I was worried they wouldnt be viable or produce fruit but was going to try none the less to get them all the way to fruit. My plan is to keep one or two, and give the remaining two or three away to family ready to go in ground. I will definitely be letting them all get to fruit thanks to your video!
Thanks for this! I am quite partial to peaches, apricots, and nectarines, and have tried repeatedly to grow them. I will use this method, next time.
No worries, hope it goes well!
Wow! I have never seen red flesh peaches! They look delicious! 😀👍👍👍
I've been creating a seed library and have saved my peach & plum pits. I'm so excited now for the possibility. Thank you for this.
So helpful!!! Seeing the difference between the one in the pot and ground was amazing.
I don't mind the skin, I actually like the taste, but the pit does send goosebumps down my spine! I hate biting down too hard in case my teeth touch the pit :')
Haha I guess we’re all a bit weird 😝
Oh yeah, I always cut my fruit. I hate pits too. And skins. Peach skins are easily peeled off if you blanche the fruit a bit.
Peach has always been my favorite fruit.
Hopefully I will be able to grow mine own one day :)
Sanguine peaches - next on my list to plant! Thank you.
Huh always called those dark red flesh peaches "black boy" peaches or maybe thats another variety of peach
Yep that’s another name for them, but typically only called that in NZ and Ausi, not really globally :)
That's funny because I love eating the peach skin, I find it very satisfying to have the thick skin and soft fruit in one bite.
Wow purple peach is rare
I’m thinking about just planting the inner seed in the ground without potting soil etc. How deep should I plant it, and when should I plant it and how much should I water it before it sprouts , and how much should I water it after it sprouts ?
amazing! that peach looked so delicious on the inside; never really saw one that was so red.
I think it would be fun to have you grow a sea buckthorn tree it gets 12 to 14 feet tall so should be fine to grow.
Oh temperature rang 100f to -50f
I’ve been trying to get my hands on these for awhile. They sounds really good, and hardy too :)
@@TheKiwiGrower you too dam.
I've looked for a while but its almost always out of stock and its almost never refilled like why 😭
My father grafted our Peach and Plum Tree together... fruit was so succulent
I knew it could be done without busting open the case because I put some eaten pits of nectarine on the counter for two days in a paper towel wet and they both sprouted that fast. You are the only one who admitted it could be done.
I'm glad I found your video by accident my son's and I planted some seed last year this video gives me an idea of what type of peach I might have and what it looks like they're about 4 inches high this year and we're going to be planting them in the yard we have over a dozen a little excited about that
viewer nuber 100 also id like to see a mango tree grown from seed
Thanks for the suggestion, definitely planning to do this one 😁
Thanks for a great video on peaches from seed! This seems like a very sweet peach! Thanks for sharing! If the peach fuzz bothers you try nectarines, and they come in yellow , or white! Thanks for sharing the miracles of creation!! James Peaches grow very well in Pennsylvania, in America, and some grow to be over one pound fruits! Good work!
New sub! I got two peach trees I bought from a chain store, they've produced every year I had them... this year I saved every pit I could from canning and got over 100 seeds! Hoping to have some trees I can plant for the deer
Rocky was absolutely adorable
Thx for the enlightenment and better the awesome live examples.
Righteous work brother!
Did you wash them first?
Nah I didn’t
Ok
1:15 maaate i can so relate i shiver even on the thought of that
You're a Wizard with a green thumb. I wish I could grow peaches in my zone (Chicago).
I lived in Germany (Dresden) for 10 years (I’m Swedish and now living in Sweden again) In Germany I had a “Kleingarten “ In the garden there was a peach tree. It was grown by the former owner from a seed when he was a young man approximately 50 years ago. Very delicious big fruits.
Thank you so much for this. Will be doing this from pits this saved this year. Greetings from Nelson.
Nice, should do well for you down there 😁
Hey Kiwi, Great video. My girlfriend is a kiwi in America. She's a hoot. Now then, my grandfather grew many peach trees from pits, 60 years back. He had heard of grafting, but never learned the method of development. Although, he raised many peach seedlings. Six months back, my kiwi and I went to a well known pick your own peaches, near here. We saved all the stones and threw most in a bag in the bottom of the fridge. I have gotten a few to emerge and grow to seedlings. So now, I am ordering some certified rootstock and will start an orchard with that. I will graft my seedlings onto the stock and later will toss any that don't taste really good. Thanks for your video.
Cool! Any reason you're not just going to grow them on their seedling rootsotck?
@@TheKiwiGrower Yes, I want to try and have a 50 tree orchard that is semi-dwarf, say about 15 ft (4.5 meters) tall. Also, some rootstocks are more vigorous and disease resistant than the original trees.
If ever you discover from one of your unique seed cultivars a variety of peach tree immune to the dreaded peach tree leaf curl, please patent it.
Great video - I wish I knew all this before. 👍
Omg it’s nice to know I’m not alone with the absolute hatred of peach skin but loving the taste 😆
I watched your last video and was able to sprout an apricot seed. Thanks. Hope it makes it over the winter!
Perfect timing, I have a bunch of blackboy peaches and was wanting to try growing from their pits, especially as their heirlooms from a neigh ours tree! Thank you as always for the video, it's great to see a kiwi doing this as well, so I know these things will probably grow ok here in our lovely unpredictable climate 😀
Cool, yea those are the same variety as these ones, I just used their other name sanguine peach. Good luck with it, they should do well :)
Ok I have already a little peach tree from seed and now I know when I can plant it in the ground and how. Thank you very much! I wish I will eat its peaches one day 🥰
Awesome, hope it keeps growing well for you :)
@@TheKiwiGrower thank you! Keep going your awesome videos. I have grown and an avocado tree from seed with your way and it grows really fast 😁🥰
that red peach looks delish!
Insane effort for each video.
I love the feeling of soft peach skin.
Yes, I have one, it's a red peach that I grew from seeds. Apricot and nectarines are another that grows true to the seed. My best nectarines came from seeds from a volunteer that popped up in my yard. That volunteer came from an old tree that was cut down. I can't wait to grow more stone fruits from seeds. :)
I’m with you I can’t stand the feel of the peach skin, but I absolutely love peaches! I’m not quite sure how you bit into that thing 😱😱😱
I've learned so much from this video. I'm interested in germinating a peach seed now. Thank you for sharing!
You are soooooo handsome
Absolutely, isn't he? Especially when he say: "and they are really large and juicy". [0:29]
Oh yeah.
@@pagox 😍😂
I feel you with peach skin, that’s why I like related fruits have fuzz
I can relate to the peach skin problem. Horrors. Gave me chills just thinking about it. Useful information for anyone who likes to grow and harvest fruit.
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Funny story for ya all.
I grew up in Blenheim 60, 70s, Lived on a road right on a river. My younger brother and I discovered over the river one afternoon a peach tree with ripe fruit in someone's back yard so we raided it for a couple of peaches each, ran of then scoffed them down. Went home only to have our parents ask us what we had been eating as our lips were bright red, we didn't know that but we told them a couple of peaches we'd found on somebody's tree. Didn't get in trouble for it and didn't think anymore of it. Woke up next morning to find our parents had themselves gone and raided the tree, they took the lot. Put it this way, we saw the evidence right there on the kitchen table. A box full of black boy peaches. I think we also propagated a tree from them in the years following. Naughty kids but naughty parents as well huh. Long time ago with a lot of water under the bridge since those days.
Makes me smile the memory but I'm not one who would do such these days. Peoples stuff is sacred to me now.
For me, it is when I have used a wooden spoon provided with an Ice-Cream cup! That sends me over the edge!
Oh that does sound bad 😅
I've got a tree about 8 years old that popped up in my yard from a seed I apparently threw out there. Funny it turns out to be about the same color of red that yours is. Delicious fruit that ripens late in August. It came through a hard freeze this year while in full bloom, about 25 degrees F. Don't know how it came out with fruit from that but enough that I still had to thin it out. Tough tree.
for anyone interested - I put the pits into a bag of moist sand and left in the fridge for 6 weeks, they all germinated in the bag and then potted on. Good way to save yourself cracking the pits
I love experimenting with trees. A couple years ago i grafted a few peach and apricot branches into the base of a large plum tree hoping that some of the grafts would survive. They all did, and they are fruiting.
I've got a seed planted red peach I'm hoping to get fruit from this year for the first time. We're lucky to love gardening so much. Thanks for your channel.
I am amazed at how much force it takes with the vice grips to break apart the “stone” pit. Maybe it’s adapted to survive a large animals digestive tract. Letting the pit dry a bit I think helps it crack open easier but not sure long drying is good for seed inside. Gina try the bench vise. And will wear safely glasses.
My brother did this with a Silver Queen peach decades ago now. Great eating and bottling peach, grew it from the stone of a shop bought peach.
This is a great video, with oodles of progress updates thank you..
Daamn this video took more than 2 years to complete :D
Well done, I'm proud of you
I’m with you re peach skin. It’s the only fruit I buy in a tin, for that reason only. There are other textures I can’t touch, including velvet and cotton wool.
Definitely agree on the velvet and cotton wool too! 😅
I am the same way about hairy peach skin...It's like chewing on flannel and yes it give's me the heebeejeebees. Rubbing the skin on a towel and then rinsing the peach off helps remove a major proportion of the hair. Either that or cut slices out of the peach so you aren't biting through the skin from the outside.
It was informative. About the peach peel I tell you, that the hairs can be washed off. It's a great indicator if you properly washed the fruit
The cracks in your soil look identical to centeral Texas. Praying for a better rain next year for you and me both
My favourite is the nectarine. Vice grips work great for cracking nuts, as you can adjust how much the jaws move.
Fabulous video, I really like that you've followed the whole process through over a year, so we can see the results. I'm really interested in the comparison with the shell left on, its obviously worth cracking them!
My seed grown peach and nectarine trees are just volunteers from the compost lol! So pretty random but hugely happy with them - lovely fruit and the nectarines ripen at different times - some trees in early summer some now right at the end of summer - so useful!
My favourite is a peach tree that produces the most incredible fruit - these deeply orange / peach coloured fruits with the most deep, sweet flavour - definitely worth doing!
I'm about to put some plum and peach seeds out in pots, I was going to throw them in whole but will crack them after seeing this! Though I may experiment with the plums....
I bet you if you let the whole peach rot around the shell, it would improve germination rates.
Cant wait for Canadian winter to end so i can plant the plants ive been growing all winter
Exciting times ahead!
I just love him and what he does!😊
100% with you on the peach fuzz. Cannot stand it on my tongue. I usually slice into wedges thin enough to fold back on itself to eat. I prefer nectarines, as the flavour is similar with no fuzz.
Wish I lived where I could grow a peach tree. They just don't do well in Alberta, Canada. - Cheers
I was told to put the pits in the freezer for an extended time before planting them. Never tried it, but I thought about having my own peach tree often over the years.
I had no idea they would grow so quickly. Thank you very much!
Love how you videos show a full cycle. Thank you so much
so nice to see you fast forward and the growth of the trees. i always make sure i crack the hard shell of seeds. i tried it with cherry seeds i bought from a supermarket. so satisfying.
So much effort for one video over such a long period of time. Really enjoyed the video. I did a batch of apricots and mandarins from seed this year.
I love growing mangos and avocados from seed! A bit more hit and miss with fruiting I find (so grafting would be better) but there’s nothing more satisfying then growing your own fruit tree with delicious fruit!!
Cheers! That's cool that you're growing some fruits from seed too. Hope they work out good for you :)
And you're right, so satisfying to watch the whole process from the beginning!
Wow what beautiful peaches!
I love peaches, but you are right about the skin. Hard to get past that. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for being so honest!, your very interesting to listen too