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NC2KApr 23, 10:15pm
Spit your apple seeds and fruit pits into some nice freshly raked soil; add water; watch tree grow. :)

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digitsApr 24, 5:37am
13. Does that really work? I would not mind an apple tree or a peach tree.

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blueflameleoApr 24, 1:45pm
i will bring you a cutting from a peach tree ok 13

NC2KApr 24, 7:46pm
14: Sure does work. Best to dry the seeds first on some paper towels for a few weeks. Then just plant them in early spring and keep the soil moist. I even have 3 new sugar maples up at my summer place that I started from seeds about 4 years ago. Started them in pots. The little saplings are now about 5 ft tall. Gonna transplant them this year to their final home around the rear of my trailer. Pretty much any seed producing fruit can be done that way. Even started my tomato and pepper plants that way a few times.

Luckily I inherited my grandpa's green thumb.

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digitsApr 25, 5:04am
15. How does one propogate a peach tree cutting Leo. Do you know?

16. I learned a few years ago how to propogate certain plants [cuttings, rootings, dividing, etc.] and vegetables but I never gave any thought to fruit. I guess I forgot the whole concept of seeds. Duh. LoL. Can ya say, "Making it more complicated than it has to be?"

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blueflameleoApr 25, 7:13am
I think you take your cutting put root tone around the bottom stick it in a pot of dirt.

NC2KApr 25, 8:00am
18: You're right BFL. That works. You want to make sure you use hormone rooting powder (root tone) that is for hard stem cuttings. I actually started cuttings from my lilac tree by scoring the bark on some new shoots; wrapping it with peat moss; and tying a plastic bag around the moss. Keep the peat moss well watered until you notice roots showing in the plastic bag. Then cut the new shoot about 4 inches below the new roots and plant in a pot with potting soil. From my one little lilac tree I now have a row of them behind my back fence.

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digitsApr 25, 8:12am
18, 19. i think i lost my root tone in the move... no big deal i can get some more from lowe's. have you guys ever noticed the warning on that stuff? ACK!

i also heard of scoring and then moss and plastic bag. that always seemed so overhwleming to me...i think I wanted to do it with one of my rubber plants and also dracaena? but it seemed like too much of a risk. [killing the plant or it not taking after all the time.]

but if you say it works, i'll have to now remember that. i learned it on websites when i was trying to propogate my leggy rubber plant and leggy dracaenas. in the end, i chopped them in half and hoped they'd start anew..by placing the tops in dirt...A] I did not root tone them because my friend said it was not necessary and B] I did not keep them watered, half-heartedly thinking I'd really just killed them. In the end, they all died but I think it was from lack of watering.


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