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Growing Peach Trees from Seed Naturally

 
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Peach trees are great for learning fruit tree growing as they produce in just a few years. This year I am experimenting with scaffold training as I run out of room for full size trees. This young nectarine has four scaffolds held in place with spreaders made from paper straws.
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Seedling nectarine
Seedling nectarine
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Paper straw spreaders to increase crotch angle
Paper straw spreaders to increase crotch angle

Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil

 
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Megan Palmer wrote:Hello Timothy, of the five mature peach trees that I have grown from their pits, only two had mediocre tasting fruit, the rest grew true and tasted as good as the parent.

I have grafted a plum onto one of them and grafted good flavoured peaches on the other. The plum has taken successfully but the peach on peach grafts were T-buds that I did in February have no signs of life yet (spring here in the southern hemisphere).

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None of the peach on peach tbud grafts took, although several of the plum tbuds onto stone grown plums were successful.

Here are photos of the plum that I grafted onto a stone grown peach tree.

The peach was planted into the ground around 2015 and bears free stone orange
fleshed fruit, it was supposed to be a nectarine but reverted to a peach. The flavour is ok but not spectacular.

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Whip and tongue plum graft onto stone grown peach tree
Whip and tongue plum graft onto stone grown peach tree
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Whip and tongue graft Nov 2020
Whip and tongue graft Nov 2020
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Plum blossoms Sept 2022
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Plum grafted on peach tree
Fruit in March 2023
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Growth of plum on peach tree four years after grafting
Growth of plum on peach tree four years after grafting
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Plum grafted onto stone grown peach
Plum grafted onto stone grown peach
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Whip and tongue graft union
Whip and tongue graft union
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Blossoms on plum and peach tree
Blossoms on plum and peach tree
 
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Awesome Megan. I must try that. In my climate it's sometimes hard to get plums going, but peach trees have an easy time getting started.

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Thanks Hugo, I have found that peaches are really easy to grow from stones and set fruit really young, often within 3 years however grafting peach on peach has been challenging.

I have posted in other threads photos of a black boy peach, white fleshed peach and a golden queen, that I’ve grown from stones.

There are at least seven plum trees in the community garden that I’ve grown from stones, however they seem to be more difficult to germinate and take longer to fruit, up to 5 years.

However on the plus side, I’ve found the trees to be really robust and am grafting different varieties onto them. I’m not very skilled at grafting yet but since the trees were grown from stones I don’t feel bad about practicing on them!
 
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