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Growing Fruit Trees From Seeds You Save | Homesteading

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October 28, 2019 By Anna Ikona 37 Comments

Growing fruit trees from seeds is an essential homesteading skill. If you want to start harvesting fruit trees, you’ll love this easy way to grow your own fruit trees for free. You could save money on fruit, enjoy the benefits of homegrown produce and even turn a profit.

Growing Fruit Trees from Seeds

Step-by-Step Guide To Growing Fruit Trees From Seeds

Don’t you feel guilty throwing out seeds from the fruit you eat? I know I do. When I used to cut open a persimmon to eat it, I would throw out the seeds. Eventually, I decided that wasting beautiful seeds wasn’t an option—after all, I could grow trees from those seeds…and I did! Here’s a way to grow trees from seeds that will produce healthy fruits on your homestead!

Step 1: Germinate Seeds

 

Clean the fruity flesh off the seeds. Pick it off using your fingers. Or if it’s too hard to do, try to soak the seeds in warm water for 2 minutes first.

Click here to learn more about germinating seeds

Step 2: Choose The Right Soil

Fruit Tree Sprouting | How to Grow Fruit Trees

Choose the right soil. Some people say you have to use seed starting soil, but in my opinion, any soil is fine. Even old soil from your garden beds would work perfectly. My soil is really sandy, and all the seeds I plant in it germinate really well, about 90%.

 

Step 3: Choose Where to Plant

My window sill covered with cut pop bottles and seedling sprouting in them.

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Choose where you will plant the seeds. I wouldn’t recommend planting the seeds outside or in garden beds. The reason why I don’t encourage this is because it may be too cold outside. You also want to plant in a smaller confined space to better manage and track the growth of your seed.

I recommend planting your seeds in a pot or container. You can keep them on a windowsill until they grow bigger.

TIP: Dollar stores have cheap flower pots. You can use a chopstick or finger to dig small holes in the soil.

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How deep to plant your seeds:

Seed Size:                                   Depth:

1 inch……………………………………..2 inches

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2 cm……………………………………….3 cm

1.5 cm……………………………………..2.5 cm

1 cm………………………………………..2 cm

0.5 cm……………………………………..1 cm

 

Step 4: Care For Your Seeds

 

Water your seeds often. Fertilize them once the trees are over 5 cm. You could use store-bought fertilizer or make it yourself out of compost [learn how to make it here]. The choice is yours. Once the tree becomes twice as tall as the pot it is in, transfer it into a larger pot.

From there you can watch your trees grow big and strong! I do this on my own homestead all the time I’ve even learned how to turn a profit.

Want to watch the process in action? Hit Play:

 

So will you start growing fruit trees from seeds you save? Let us know below in the comments!

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Comments

  1. Diane says

    April 22, 2019 at 7:24 AM

    Thanks for all of your useful information. I have grown quite a few plants from seeds. Like lemon, peppers, tomatoes pumpkin, and some others. And these are seeds from my kitchen.

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  2. Lee Hoy says

    July 19, 2019 at 10:24 AM

    Great article! Yes, I’ve grown apple trees from seeds. It was honey crisp seeds that I found inside the apple that had already sprouted! they are about 2 ft tall and don’t look a bit like apple trees…In one of my FB groups, they thought that they were citrus trees!

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  3. Really_Old_Guy says

    February 16, 2020 at 11:20 AM

    I’ve grown a number of fruit trees from seeds starting thirty years ago. The seeds were from store-bought apples. About half of the apple seeds yielded crabapple trees and the other half were nice, edible varieties. I didn’t keep track of which was which, so I can’t say. They make great eating, pies, and dried fruit. I keep the crabapples because the bees LOVE the blossoms and they tend to be early varieties, good for pollinating. The pear and cherry seeds tend to come true to the parent plant.

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