How We Easily Sprout Pear and Apple Seeds

Today we share how to germinate pear and apple seeds, easily and reliably. Sprouting pear seeds and apple seeds requires stratification - this is how to make it happen.
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[@davidthegood]

Join us live in North Florida, February 17th: thesurvivalgardener.com/spring-good-gardening-superclass-february-17-2024/ Thanks for watching!

[@hussienbayoumi8982]

Happy to see the beard back.

[@KyleTheFountain]

I Second that 😂.

[@GardeningwithDave]

I was sleeping the other night in bed thinking about a cement mixer for soil. A few days later, David the good uploads a video LOL. Thank you for sharing some great tips in the garden. Love from California!

[@Joan-ph2es]

And now I have greenhouse envy. Thanks for the seed sprouting and soil mixing tips.

[@brianedminster7556]

I've had success germinating apple seeds in damp paper towels - put into a zipper closure baggie - kept in in the back of the refrigerator for a few months. It was mostly an experiment, and was a surprise that it worked!

[@user-ic2ug8ys1z]

What!? Mixer awesomeness. 😀🌱🐢

[@davidthegood]

The previous owners of our property left a mixer in the garage for us!

[@user-ic2ug8ys1z]

It was a clear blessing. Save your back and use the mixer.

[@GrandmaSandy]

Hi my dear friend thank you so much for another great video always enjoy coming over and watching. Thanks so much for sharing.

[@breaking_bear]

This video is very stratisfying to watch!

[@freelivingtennessee]

Oh this is WAY better than a dang paper towel The mold loves the paper towel method 🤣

[@DanlowMusic]

Definitely need that book. I love the 2 books I have of yours. Easy reads. They read as if you are talking to us on here so they definitely are not boring like some authors can be. Yours are top notch!

[@davidthegood]

Thank you very much.

[@sgmarr]

I have had lemon trees sprout, out in my compost heap/garden scrap piles. Over winter they self stratified! I noticed them later and potted them up. Kept them in my house, over the next winter, to protect from the freeze. I am in Ontario Canada. I do not have a greenhouse, to over winter anything.

[@CariMachet]

Beautiful

[@patriciaserdahl5577]

Thank you for sharing David love the cement mixer and the tip for putting seeds in frig God bless you 🙏 😊 🇺🇸 🍐 👍

[@Joe-Skier]

Hey David, i live in Montana and i have been using your swamp water method for a couple years. This past summer two my trees were so happy they bloomed in the fall. You ever heard of such a thing?

[@ausfoodgarden]

Did you say, total cheapskate? Where do I sign up? A great basically free way to get trees growing that might grow great fruit or be good rootstock. Maybe even both? Excellent video, and the fridge sprouting tips are very useful.

[@GrandmaSandy]

You give some great gardening tips. Thank you so much.

[@Carolynfoodforest355]

Good video, I will share.

[@Blynn-md4dx]

Amen! Just do it!

[@glynischamberlain9126]

Love it!!

[@melanieallen3655]

I really enjoy your videos! You are my top2 You tubers!Cheers from Australia!😊

[@davidthegood]

Thank you

[@maroosk]

Awesome

[@TheWickerShireProject]

Amazing show and tell on stratification. Thanks Dave! I have apple seeds we need to look at. I should go check those now. PEACE!

[@ZE308AC]

💡 Nifty 💡 idea 💡

[@elusive323]

You got us a cool tune Mr Good?

[@JAACS74]

Omg😂 just watched an old video of you freaking out with zucchini & Mexican looking zucchini...and I think if it grows so well...nextime let them be picked and shared with others❤

[@davidthegood]

I will share them with the pigs

[@Oktopia]

I did exactly this with a plum I liked the taste of. I have no idea if it will turn out well. I got a tiny little plant out of it and stuck it in what will become a fruit tree guild if all goes well. The plum tree I bought for the big bucks died on me this summer so I'm excited for this spring to see if the little one survived the winter. I packed around it with leaves and grasses to give it some shelter from the worst of it. I'm looking to get more fruit trees in the future. I don't mind the wait. It's so much more interesting growing from seeds.

[@davidthegood]

I bet it does great

[@zhartheProprietor]

Your awesome

[@babetteisinthegarden6920]

TFS

[@BrianDiBello-nh6sw]

Can this same method be done with grape seeds?

[@Frankie_902]

Are there any type of Apple trees that won't need grafting and that will be true to the type of trees the seed came from? And the same question for Peaches also.

[@paulknoblauch9101]

Following...

[@KB-2222]

Following too

[@tarajones-qh6pm]

Also following I hope he answers

[@Frankie_902]

@@tarajones-qh6pm I do as well. I'd be pretty disappointed if he doesn't. 🥺

[@davidthegood]

If you were to inbreed apples for a long time, you might get a type that is consistent. But as for needing grafting, many will not. It may not be the same as the parent but it won’t be inedible or horrid.

[@FM-qm5xs]

I found peat moss makes all the seeds moldy. I don't know if it's just because I need fresher stuff. I think I am going to go back to paper towels though since I had less problems with that.

[@mikec3820]

im sprouting some bencidori acer/ japanese maple too. hoping for a keeper close to the parent tree

[@lisettesyummygarden2299]

❤

[@breaking_bear]

The beard is good!

[@The_Hairy_Farmer]

Hey Dave - feel free to scold me if you've done it before, but how about a video on air layering? 🙂

[@davidthegood]

i have done one - see my video on air-layering a mango or the one on the ackee.

[@The_Hairy_Farmer]

@@davidthegood - Thanks...will do. (Don't forget to bring your precious family to the farm for a holiday - they can tell all their friends that they survived SA...🤣)

[@anitamurphy2454]

Got lucky and found a clementine seed in a cutie. A year later, at 9" tall, it looks great and like its ready to take off this year. Currently in a gallon can, should i pot up before summer? I potted it up in fall, so im wondering now

[@davidthegood]

I would pot it up when it's about 2'

[@anitamurphy2454]

@@davidthegood thank you!

[@bruce_daddy]

Do you compost the beard whenever you shave it?

[@ArtistCreek]

Can you explain the difference between growing trees and 'rootstock' i dont understand at all

[@davidthegood]

Read up on grafting. It is not too hard.

[@LaceyR_FreeEricBrandt]

👍💪

[@k.p.1139]

🤔 Do the fruits climatize to where we start them? I know we don't have enough chill hours ( according to the USDA) to grow many of the apples and/or pears that we like. What's the scoop, David? Are they fibbing to us? 😆😆

[@TheRainHarvester]

I can sprout them, even grow them 1' tall. But they don't survive. I'm in central Texas. Too hot?

[@tommyluck19]

Hey,David! Your kids are cold hardy!😂 Do You have your planting schedule on your website by any chance?

[@davidthegood]

I do not - I'm not that clever.

[@tommyluck19]

@@davidthegood Isn't available in any form as email etc? Last year I screwed up so bad ,started almost everything too late. I would like to avoid that mistake this year. Pleas,please, please 🙏 😉

[@CariMachet]

Seeds sprout?

[@nathanaelstunt7317]

How long do you expect to wait before they fruit?

[@ticktock2383]

Years

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Years

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Years

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Years

[@ticktock2383]

Years

[@koicaine1230]

None of my seeds have germinated so I'm right on schedule..

[@buckaroobonzai2909]

I disagree. There is an easier method. Peel all of the black/brown part completely off of the seed. Apples will germinate probably 95% of the time after being planted directly into the soil. You don't have to stratify at all. I've done this many times. The seed that you plant should be completely white. You save the seed and peel them around late Feb and grow them next to a window so that by the last frost date, you have something to plant. I've done this and I say it works. I've done it to pear seeds and that also works, but I did not do it enough for to really say how much it works. With apples, though, I have done this over 100 times. I have done many mass plantings for a few years in a row. I have a few trees that the deer and rabbits and natural conditions have not killed. I have not had success with this when doing it with stone, fruit however. Since you basically have to crack the pit and plant what it inside. I got like 1 sapling from 100 plum/cherry pits. So that isn't a good rate.