Seed grown fruit trees

[LaurenRitz]

General rule with many plants is that you should end up with something in between the two parents. Normally if you cross two good peaches you should get a decent peach. Crossing across species barriers gets much more complicated.

For example, the peach-leafed almond mentioned above has a female parent which is edible pit but no fruit, and one which had good fruit and a toxic pit. So I could end up with edible pit and good fruit, but chances are high that the pit will be mildly toxic and the fruit minimal.

Between two trees that have good fruit, your odds of getting something good are high. The flavor might surprise you, though.

 

[flowerbug]

Anything that was grown in your local area has a better chance of thriving if planted from a seed.

other considerations are that young trees just do not have that large of a root system yet so they may not survive until they are more well established and have a deeper and larger root system. that is why with young trees you do want them to be regularly watered deeply enough in their first year or two.

and also, with some plants their genetics can be much more complicated than either/or traits as blending can happen and some plants have multiple sets of genes so then it can be even more complicated (apples are a good example for those who think this stuff should be simple, it's isn't...).

and this isn't a way of saying that people shouldn't try, but also to just be aware that you may have interesting results which don't meet your expectations.