View Single Post
  #12   Report Post  
Old 30-07-2004, 08:09 PM
Kay
 
Posts: n/a
Default Growing cherries from stones

In article , Dwayne
writes
I don't know what the trick is, but once our Pastor bought a bushel of
peaches, canned them and put the pits into the compost pile. He gave me
about 20 trees the next year to plant and give away.

After a few years we started getting peaches from the trees. They had
reverted back to the type of tree that had been he root stock from the
peaches he had bought, but that was nice.


The tree you got from the seed would quite probably not bear the same
fruit as was planted, since you would get the variation inherent in any
sexual reproduction, but there is no mechanism whereby the seed produced
would give rise to the same type of tree as the rootstock except by
coincidence - for example, pears are commonly grafted on to quince, but
there's no way planting a pip from the pear would give a quince tree.

btw - please don't top post - it messes up the threads in a ng like this
one where the convention is to bottom post
One tree would ripen and a week
later the other one would. It gave us time to process the fruit rather than
having it all at once. The fruit was very good.

Dwayne



"Sally Thompson" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:51:11 -0500, "Dwayne" wrote:

"Sally Thompson" wrote in message
...
Having just finished a yummy bag of cherries, I wondered if it would
be possible to grow a cherry tree (or two) from the stones. Has
anyone tried this with success? We have an unheated greenhouse, if
that helps.


Just lay them in your compost pile and cover them up with compost. Next
year some should come up as trees and you transplant them in the spring.
They will probably not be the same cherries as you bought, but they will

be
edible.


OK, thanks Dwayne. I hadn't thought of putting them in the compost
heap. Won't it get too hot?

--
Sally in Shropshire, UK
bed and breakfast near Ludlow: http://www.stonybrook-ludlow.co.uk
Reply To address is spam trap





--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"