A great question came in to Ask Gardenerd this week:
“A friend gave me 2 peach trees from the peaches that had fallen from
his trees. Will the trees produce the same peaches as the parent trees?”
The answer is yes, your peach tree will most likely produce fruit like its parent. While apples tend to not reproduce well from seed, stone fruits (peaches, nectarines, apricots) tend to carry forth the traits of its parent. I tore out an article from a magazine last year that explains how to start stone fruit trees from seed. It’s an excellent read by Lee Reich and it appeared in the June/July 2008 issue of Mother Earth News. I was happy to see that it was on the website archives. Check it out:
Grow Free Fruit Trees – by Lee Reich
Thanks for writing in. Let us know how your peach trees do this year!
