How to Grow 21 Amazing Trees from Seed (Full Presentation)

i'm david the good and i'm a seed addict 21 me train [Music] see David [Music] when you think about growing fruit trees or nut trees you probably think about going out to a nursery buying a potted tree popping it in your yard taking care of it for a few years and then hopefully getting a harvest chances are you're not thinking of growing fruit and nut trees from seed and when you mention that you want to grow them from seed people treat you weirdly maybe when you're young and you're like I want to start some apple trees I want to start an avocado they say oh it's gonna take forever that's not gonna be it's gonna be terrible fruit you get that sort of a response right you've heard that before you may have even said that before and so all the joy and wonder of starting a tree from seed starting a gigantic tree like this mango tree right beside me from a seed and having it tower up to heaven yeah you don't get that because it takes too long and it's going to be nasty well we're gonna deal with these two objections and hopefully after today's presentation you're going to want to start your own fruit and nut trees from seed and you're gonna get all excited and you're gonna go right out in your yard you're gonna start planting stuff so first the two objections objection number one it takes too long everybody says it takes too long well do you expect to die within the next year or two what about within the next five years there are fruit trees that will produce from seed in a year or two maybe they're not technically trees you know things like papaya or bananas or whatever but you get the idea there are things that go really fast and we're gonna cover some of them I actually had a peach tree produce in 18 months from seed actually make a couple of peaches which is way outside of the ordinary but it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen now if every year you're putting in gardens why not start a few fruit trees at the same time back when I was fifteen I planted a coconut in my parents backyard down in Fort Lauderdale it had sprouted and it was about that tall and I stuck it in the ground and now there is a beautiful towering coconut palm which is quite a few years older than then fifteen at this point but it beautiful tall tree and it wouldn't be there every time I go and visit my parents house I look up and I see this tree and I go wow I can't believe I planted that but you get a chance to invest in the future by planting trees from seed and a lot of them don't take as long as you might think and there are also ways to get around it taking so long such as grafting which brings me to point number two it's going to be nasty oh it's gonna be terrible if you plant apple seeds you're gonna get a horrible Apple or if you plant that orange seed you're gonna get a horrible orange well that is often not the case as a matter of fact most of the varieties that you have today that you've seen today are just a lot of them are just accidental you know somebody somebody threw seeds out in their backyard and they grew this tree that tree the other tree and they crossed and the genetic variation takes place and you get something different so if you want exactly a Red Delicious apple which I don't know why anybody in their right mind would you can go and buy a grafted Red Delicious apple every single Red Delicious apple that's been grafted is exactly a clone of every other one they start a tree from seed and have a little root stock going they may even clonally propagate it but often you have a seedling root stock and then on top of it you graft a variety so if this mango here was say a Ceylon mango and I had a mango seedling in my yard I could take a little piece of this tree cut it in make a little graft and it would be a Ceylon mango from that craft point upwards and would always bear the same Ceylon mangoes that every other Ceylon mango tree bears so you can graft it if it turns out badly but I've grown peaches from seat and I had over a dozen seedling peaches that I gave to friends I had a few in my yard every single one of them bore delicious peaches and they weren't all the same some of them were small red some of them bloomed at slightly different times but they were all delicious peaches and I've got all kinds of stories people have sent me in on my website of trees that they started from seed avocados and oranges and grapefruits lemons and all kinds of things that for delicious wonderful fruit so if it doesn't bear what you want you can always just graft on top of it and if it does bear something that tastes good you can name it after yourself because that's a variety nobody else happens now let's jump into the varieties that you can plant and how to do them because I've got one to want amazing trees that you can grow from seed your ownself apples are one of the first things that every kid wants to grow can I plant these seeds will they grow and then we tell them no they won't grow and if they do grow they're gonna be awful but you can grow apples from seed and you will often get decent apples a lot of the settlers did that think of Johnny Appleseed right with apples though there's a little trick to getting the seeds to germinate and that is they need some chilling first an Apple falls to the ground in summer or fall it gets buried under leaves it rots into the ground maybe somebody throws the core over the fence or whatever else then those little seeds start to chill if they sprouted right away when they hit the ground they would freeze to death in the winter they wouldn't have time to get established so since it's a cold climate tree it needs a little bit of chill hours first which is called stratification and so to stratify apple seeds you get the little seeds out of the core put them in a little bit of slightly moist potting soil you put them in a little baggie stick them in the fridge and just wait three to four months or so they'll often they'll just start putting roots out right there in your refrigerator it's amazing like you'll see little roots coming out it's like they are trying to root into the ground didn't gets winter they're getting ready to sprout in the spring now as soon as you take those out and put them in pots they often will stick up their leaves and they'll be growing and you will have little apple trees now apples take a little bit of time to produce fruit from seed we're talking six to ten years for a seedling it's pretty much normal so the good news on that is that you can graft onto them and they will produce a lot quicker or you can just wait and see what they turn into because you're going to have your own variety if you don't graft but if you do want to graft and change it your neighbor has a cool apple tree you could take a little piece off and graft it in the spring they graph so easily you can almost just chop a chunk off and chop a chunk off and stick it together Wow there you go and it takes apples are super super easy and they're like the beginners grafting tree so easy to start from seed pop them in the fridge give them a little bit of time pick grow roots stick them in the ground it will grow a top and then six to ten years good job Johnny Appleseed tree number two is avocados avocados are like one of those beginner fruits right have you ever seen that thing where you take an avocado pit you stick some toothpicks in it you suspend it in a jar you put some water up there and then over time it starts to put roots down and it puts a chute up and then you plant it and it died my grandma did that over and over again we were like her backyard was like the graveyard of avocado seedlings she would stick them in the little things and then she would go plant him out in the yard and then they would die because she actually wouldn't water them once they went out there I really miss you grandma I wish you could watch this just so you could get on my case but avocados are actually really easy to start you take the pit out of a fresh avocado and I don't like doing the whole toothpick thing anymore you know that was that was fine in the past but sometimes they rot sometimes they don't take and I often have a few avocados at a time so what I do is I just take a little flat of soil I stick the little avocado pits in there I bury them and then they just pop up and as they pop up I pull them out and I transplant them to their own pots or put them in the yard the only thing is you have to remember to water them one more thing avocados can take five to 13 years to grow from a pet so be patient unless you like my friend Eddie from Puerto Rico we just threatened his tree he said I'm gonna cut you down I'm gonna cut you into pieces unless you bear for me okay cuz I don't like you taking up the space in my backyard all right and if you keep digging a space up and you'll make me no fruit I'm gonna cut you right down and you're gonna die and guess what the next year get fruit our next tree to start from seed is bananas now you're like oh wait a minute there's two reasons why that's completely impossible one is banana is not really a tree okay I know that but everybody calls it a tree I know it's like a big onion okay it's like a big onion that makes fruit so it's like big bulbs and stuff yeah I know it's not really a tree but we're gonna call it a tree because it kind of acts like tree and it's sort of like a tree and everybody says it's a tree so we're just gonna go with that are you doing good are you doing well so the other thing you're gonna say is wait a minute bananas have seeds are those are those little tiny black specks inside you know and you peel it and you cut it in half and you see those little teeny things yeah that's actually the remnants of seeds with bananas there are only some ornamental varieties that will start from seed the regular banana that you get in supermarket the seeds are long gone long long ago people selected out the very best varieties and that's one that doesn't have seeds in it like buckshot you know can you imagine biting into a banana and going and breaking a teeth breaking your teeth on a little seed you don't want that and the various people that bred bananas over the years who our names are long lost to us they selected out the Buckshot seeds but if you've got the ornamental varieties like Musa fella Tina there's a whole bunch of different varieties that actually have the seed still in them people will say all they took forever to germinate they're so horribly hard well I found out the trick to it the trick is you get those little seeds and get a get your ornamental banana fruit right and you open it up it's got the little hard seeds in it clean them off get yourself a little file NIC a hole in each one of them or take a pair of nail clippers and just shoo at the edges until you Nick a hole soak them overnight maybe even soak them for two days plant them in a little bit of potting soil and put them in a warm spot boom a few weeks later you have bananas it doesn't take the six months or a year that you might read online nickim soak them plant them and you've got little baby banana trees you can put in your yard no they're not very good for eating did you know that cashews come from a fruit they do it's a really weird-looking thing here's a picture the bottom part is where the cashew nut is the problem is it's surrounded by a poisonous caustic liquid which will burn you you can't just go to the store and buy some raw cashews and then turn around and plant them they're dead they're long long dead you have to actually get a cashew nut off of a plant that is a like recent so I actually was given one back when I was in the United States one of my fans snuck some in from Asia in her dirty clothing so I have a really great fans but she brought me a cashew so all you have to do is if you get an actual cashew nut is plant it and you'll get cashews in about five years maybe as little as three our next tree from seed is citrus which is not really fair because citrus is a whole group of plants wonderful trees but they're very similar the way you propagate them all is pretty much the same this is a ruby red grapefruit which is green on the outside because they live in the tropics and you need a certain amount of chill to actually get the right color and we get green ones but it's this is actually right so if I take these seeds out if you cut through seeds get rid of those but take out some of the good seeds and you just take these and now a problem that people often do something a mistake they often make with citrus is to take these seeds and then treat them like they were sunflower seeds or any other garden see and they dry them out and they're when they're good and dry they go ahead and plant them this is a tropical plant and these are actually made to sprout they are not made to go into dormancy for any period of time they're made to go right to the ground and sprout so it's a mistake to dry them out first don't do that just rinse them off and take them and plant them right in the ground and usually within a month you'll have a bunch of little citrus now if you were gonna grow grapefruit from seed chances are it's going to take eight to ten years to fruit so that's a long time however lemons limes Calem and ins and probably kumquats we'll all grow and it can often fruit in as little as two to three years maybe four or five they're much faster so oranges and grapefruits take a long time they're bigger trees and they take their sweet time getting ready but some of the smaller citrus will actually prove quite quickly and they will make good fruit from seed you'll get something very similar that's good I've had a lot of seed grow and citrus and it's delicious you see this here this is a little baby coconut look at that look at the little root coming out of the bottom see that that is a little coconut sprout and this is laying right here and the momma it's way up there I told you I planted one of these before and actually if you live in the tropics coconuts are everywhere and you can often just pick them up right off the ground here's one right here just laying on the ground that fell down the hill and they'll grow but if you have a dry coconut and you want to grow it into a tree like that what you do is you just lay it on the ground so it stays wet on the bottom water it every once in a while and it will sprout and then you plant it and in about six years you'll be getting some coconuts maybe even sooner you want to make sure that you have a coconut that has the entire husk on it if you have just the interior it may not grow it's not protected you can see the roots come through the bottom this part here is damp and it's starting to you know it's probably going to get rotten a lot quicker than the top the husk is made to float they float up on shorelines they lay in the sand to get half-buried hopefully a little ways up the shore where they don't get washed out again they put the roots down they put a chute up and next thing you know you have a tropical postcard take your coconut we're halfway in the ground get it wet boom you're going to have a coconut tree our next amazing tree is coffee and it's probably the most amazing tree of all because without it I wouldn't have enough energy to do this video Coffee is very easy to grow from seed but like citrus it's a tropical so you don't want to dry those seeds out for very long and let them let them get old and if you go to the store and you buy yourself a bag of coffee beans they're almost certainly not going to sprout some of my readers have tried growing green coffee beans they've tried growing roasted coffee beans and they don't sprout they just don't sprout you have to get some seed right from the fruit and plant them and if it's cool or cold they're not gonna want to grow what I would do when I had my plant nursery was I had a big potted coffee in my greenhouse that would fruit every fall and winter and I would go and pick those little beans split them open wash them off a little bit wash little seeds in the inside out there's a cherry that has beans inside so you're basically just splitting the cherry part taking the little beans out of the middle wash them off stick them in a little potting soil and then I had a little heating mat and I put the heating mat underneath and that kept them in the 80s and I would just sprout them in my office and they would grow in about a month to two months I would have lots of little coffee seedling we just plant them in pots don't let them freeze and you can get coffee in as little as three years one of the coolest thing I ever grew from seed was date palms I went on a picnic with my family once and I bought a box of California dates and we ate the dates and I said kids save the seeds let's see if we could sprout these and so we saved the seeds and took home a little napkin full of date seats I washed them and I read that they don't like it too wet and they don't like it cold at all they like it hot remember this is an arid warm warm climate of a desert tree more than anything else so what I did was I got a little bit of sand I I soaked the dates the date seeds just to kind of wake him up and then I planted him and some slightly moist sand and I put them in a little container on top of the water heater in my closet and out of a package of dates we probably had 20 or 30 seeds that were in the planter out of those 20 or 30 seats I got about six little baby date pumps couldn't believe it but it was the coolest thing ever so that is how you do it just put them in something just soak them once just to get them started put them in a little bit of slightly moist medium stick them on top of your water heater or someplace warm and just wait and when they took many literally they took like two three four months before they all sprouted but the rest of them that hadn't sprouted at that point I said okay you're just done they maybe would have sprouted but I was done with the experiment it was enough I got some dates and I actually planted them in my Florida yard our next amazing tree bears the largest fruit known to man it's the jackfruit and fruit can be up to 80 it's a relative of mulberries breadfruit and figs which makes it kind of awesome but it's also very easy to start from seed and the jackfruit a big old fruit like this and it's got a fibrous white interior and inside of that are these really sweet bits of fruit and inside each of those little arrows is a delicious seat that you can foil and eat however if you would rather not boil and eat it but grow yourself another tree take one of those out there like a big bean and plant them right away they're kind of soft they're not a hard shelled seed and like a lot of tropical plants you want to put it right in the ground right away you don't want to let it sit and dry out after a few weeks those things are gonna die so you put it right in to a pot and give yourself a pot that has a deep bottom to it because they make a big tap root and they don't like transplanting very much so if you actually have the climate for it what I would recommend is to dig yourself a little spot in your yard put some rocks or something around it to mark it plant a handful of jackfruit seeds maybe stick four or five in the hall with a little bit of compost you don't even have to have compost but i compost everything water them well and just watch and within about a month you'll have multiple sprouts show up there when they get a little bit bigger maybe about this tall pick the very best one of that batch and cut the rest of them down and let that one become your jackfruit tree and jackfruit actually grow very very fast and you can bear fruit in about 4 to 6 years our next tree is the loquat I love this fruit it grows in an absolutely beautiful tree and I like it so much that it was part of the logo for my old plant nursery love loquats and they grow in climates where some more tropical fruits won't go it's kind of an in-between temperate and tropical fruit it's also called the Japanese plum it's sweet tart there are improved varieties and they're seedling varieties but pretty much every loquat tree is going to bear something that's pretty good so how do you grow loquats it's another one of those ones where you have to get the fresh seeds don't dry them out they're almost like kind of like an avocado pit or something like you peel it and there's a little bit there's there's the the little green embryo inside and a little brown skin over it but it's not a hard skin it's the little pit there's usually a couple of pits in each seed you take it you plant it and in about a month it's going to come up now if you get a loquat and you say oh this one's kind of sour I don't really like it all that much that can just be a rootstock because loquats like apples graft very very easily from seed you're probably looking at about 4 to 6 years before you get fruit it's well worth it and it's a beautiful tree our next tree is mango one of my very favorite fruits along with all the other favorite fruits that I've mentioned so far mango is really easy to start from seed it's not really great at staying true to type but it's well worth growing anyhow I've had seedling mangoes before sometimes they're a little stringy sometimes they're a little Turpin tiny but they also can be grafted very easily and there's so much fun to watch growing that I would totally do it back when I worked a mind-numbing office job I actually started a mango seedling on the windowsill in my office I had a mango that I eaten for lunch stuck it in one of these little pots of dirt and a month later I came in after the weekend and boom there was this little tree there and it grows so fast that it'll blow your mind because there's a ton of energy saved inside of that big mango pit now the easy way to get them to sprout is to trim that hard outer part of the pit off and take the little soft embryo part out of the inside and plant it now son of some of them are mono embryonic and some of them are poly embryonic and from what I've heard if they're poly embryonic which means they put up multiple shoots from one pit that type usually is more true to type so if you had a really good fruit and you planted it into poly embryonic get a bunch of little shoots just select one of them and let it grow and it's probably gonna be like the mama if it's mono embryonic you're on your own and you better learn how to graft mangos will produce in about 4 to 6 years and they can make a massive tree 60 to 80 foot tall but you can also prune it way down and it will respond quite well and you can keep it at 8 to 12 feet right here I have a pod of Moringa oleifera the miracle tree also known as the drumstick tree Moringa has these little winged seeds and they keep for a while not super long maybe a year or so all you got to do to grow Moringa is to plant these seeds in the ground they germinate very readily but they like to have some bottom heat if you live in a cool area they won't come up they'll just rot in the ground another thing is the seedlings are very subject to rot so you want to make sure that when you plant your Moringa seeds you don't overwater them they'll die they grow very very quickly and they can actually start producing flowers and pods of their own within a year from planting if you live in a northern climate you can buy seeds turn around and plant them and use them as a green vegetable leaves are edible and they're very nutritious for you super simple to grow pop it in the ground make sure it's warm enough don't overwater it and you're gonna have Maringa trees our next tree rather like the banana is not a tree at all this is a papaya sometimes called a pop off but we're gonna cover the true pawpaw next piyah has these beautiful seeds in the inside isn't it gorgeous fruit very delicious and it's very very easy to start from seed now when I have papaya all I do is scoop these seeds out stick them where I want them to grow and water them or I'll take them put them in some potting soil I'll just scoop the guts out and just throw them right in and then they'll all sprout or a big chunk of them will sprout within a month or so and when they sprout I select out the very best looking ones to trim the rest of them down and usually I'll get five or six per pot when they get about a foot tall I transplant them to where I want them to go into other pots or to right in the ground or I'll just put a handful right in the ground where I wanted to grow and they'll grow just got to remember not to knock them down or step on them so I've marked them out they will produce usually fruit within a year and if you have a cooler climate where they go kind of halfway dormant it might take a year and a half to two years they're very fast and they're very productive our next tree is the true Papa not carica papaya but a samina tri lava this is a northern climate shade-tolerant tree that makes beautiful fruit and it thinks it's a tropical tree because the rest of its family lives in the tropics and somehow it ended up up north now like a lot of tropical trees even though it's not a tropical it doesn't like to have the seeds dry out so in order to grow pop off what you have to do is actually get fresh seeds like scoop them out of a paw paw or find somebody on eBay that has good ratings who is selling fresh Paw Paw seeds take those fresh seats put them in a little and wash them off put them in a little baggie of soil stick them in your refrigerator for four to five months and then plant them out in the spring Paw Paw is coming in to ripening in the end of summer and into fall so you're going to take them then and you're gonna just stick them in the fridge you can leave them in the fridge the entire winter it doesn't matter or if you have a colder climate you can pick a spot and plant them right in the ground but the important part is don't let them dry out or they will die a lot of people have written and said my Pappaw didn't come up and I said well you need them fresh and when you try them fresh they do come up I had great success in my nursery business growing popoff from seed and then turning around and selling the trees now once you actually have them sprouted and growing they have long tap roots a lot like the jackfruit so make sure you put them in deep pots and plant them out as soon as you can if you can grow them right in the space where you want them to grow later do that put them in a little bit of light shade right where you want them to grow stick those seeds in the ground after they come out of the fridge and then in spring they're gonna sprout about a month later and in about three to five years you should be getting yourself some pawpaws of your own our next tree is peaches and this is one of my all-time success stories in growing fruit trees from seed I grew dozens and dozens of peach trees from seed and I gave a ton of them away I kept track of some of them some of them I grew in my yard and they all made good peaches every one that I ever saw again made good peaches they're very easy and they're very fast 18 months 18 months from a pit I actually got a couple of peaches which is ridiculous it's an outlier but generally you're looking at about two three four years but pretty much three years is pretty in order to start peaches from seed take your pit you can either crack it open and take the little almond looking seed out of the inside or you can plant the entire thing I had higher germination rates when I just crack the pits and took the little kernels out of the inside but both ways will work take it soak it overnight in some water and then take it and put it into some slightly moist potting soil like in a little ziplock bag and stick it in your refrigerator in about three months they'll start growing roots and it's amazing you just have roots coming out of these little pits and you just take it at that point plant it in a pot and put it out on your porch now if you're afraid that the winter is still going to be too harsh don't worry about it these things were designed to go through the winter so stick it in a pot put it on your porch when it starts to warm up boom a little peach tree will come out and it'll just pop up out of the top and they grow very very fast like six feet a year and they fruit very quickly so you're probably looking at two to five years and you're gonna have peaches but almost certainly within three pecans and walnuts they're actually related both of them grow in a very similar fashion and both of them take about a decade to produce from seed so this is a long-term plan for long-term thinkers but much like peaches all you gotta do is take the nut soak it actually if any of them float throw those out those are probably no good so take the ones that sink take them and stick them in some moist potting soil put them in the fridge four to five months and then plant them out in pots or stick them right in the ground they do make tap roots they don't like transplanting very much so the best thing to do is just stick them right in a spot where you want them to grow and if you're afraid that they're not gonna sprout and grow just plant two three four or five and then cut the ones you don't want and let them grow but give them lots of space in between because they may be tiny now they're gonna be huge later our next tree is plum there are a whole bunch of varieties of plums there are Japanese plums or wild plums Chickasaw plum but basically they have the same kind of germination method just like peaches take the little pit soak it a little bit sticking a little bit of slightly moist potting soil or sand or some other medium stick in your fridge three four or five months the roots start growing out you plant um boom they start to grow and you can expect plums in about three to five years from seed that's pretty good and if you don't like what you get plums are another one that's super easy to grab I remember going to an exhibition of pre raphaelite paintings and seeing one of a woman eating a pomegranate absolutely beautiful both the woman was beautiful and the pomegranate was beautiful it's one of the most beautiful fruits in the world and it's an ancient fruit and it's also very easy to start from seed I started a dwarf pomegranate and I had it fruiting in like two years from seed but for the larger varieties takes about three to five years all you do with pomegranates you not to worry about chill period or any of that stuff they grow all the way into the tropics so they're totally fine being planted right away just scrub the seeds clean dry them out on a little paper towel after they dried for a couple of days plant them in a pot they come up in a few weeks you're gonna have some pomegranates but you're on your own with finding the beautiful girl soursop soursop is a remarkable tropical fruit which has become well known for the ability of its leaves to fight cancer a lot of people that have been studying cancer and soursop leaves have discovered that this is a potent anti-cancer herb as well as being an excellent fruit soursop is a tropical tree it's actually related to the true pawpaw of North America a Samina trial Oba and it grows a nice big spiky fruit about like this and in order to start it like we keep coming back to it's a tropical fruit you don't let those seeds dry out and sit for very long they can keep for maybe three to six months but your best just taking them from the plant or from right from the fruit get a fruit the market to clean some of the seeds off clansmen pots about a month later you get little soursop shoots and they're going to start growing and then you pot them out if you live in a colder climate you're not going to get fruit but you will be able to grow some of them indoors with proper care and at least it pollutes our next tree is a fun one it's the tropical almond and if you're a beach bum you may have found some of the little seeds washed up on shore it's a very common drift seat they've spread all around the equator and up into the subtropics by drifting to the shores and planting themselves it's a beautiful large tropical tree that the fruit has a little bit of a slightly edible exterior but inside of it is really the best part and it's a little nut it tastes like an almond but it's actually not related to almond at all now this is another tropical tree but this one is actually made to stay in stasis for a long time as it floats on the saltwater so this one can keep for quite a while I have found seeds washed up on the shore and just I'll take a handful of them put them in a pot put them under a couple inches of soil and then just keep it moist and eventually at least one or two of them sprout and I take those in plant amount there's a beautiful one in my parents side yard that I planted a few years ago in it or little almonds in eighteen months that's a really awesome and fast treat our next in our last very final tree is a really weird one that is so cool this tree is the West Indian locust also known as the stinking toe which is a terrible name for it it has a little bit of an interesting aroma but this is a traditional bush boot through Central America West Indian locust has a it's almost a flower on the inside of it which is high in protein high in minerals and high in starches and it's also quite delicious it tastes a lot like a graham cracker but it's in the bean and pea family and it has seeds inside of this flesh which we're going to have to clean out of here the wood is super hard it's almost indestructible its impenetrable to a lot of insects and it is also the source of amber remember there would be no Jurassic Park without the West Indian locust so how do you grow these things from seat well I'll tell you in a minute because first I got a seed out of this thing [Music] now I've got two seats cleaned off here what I'm gonna do put a Knick right into the side of the seat because they have a very hard coat and you may be thinking David the good why in the world are you showing us such an obscure plant there's no way I'm ever gonna have those seeds in my entire life and I just don't care well the reason I'm using this tree other than the fact that it's awesome and I just like throwing you guys for weird loops is that many bean and pea tree seeds like black locust or lukina leucocephala or others they have really hard seeds and if you have any seeds that are super hard you can do this trick to get them to grow this is a really common trick so what you do is you put a good notch on the side you could do this with a piece of pair of nail clippers on some things but I find that just using the corner edge of a file you know you put your little file marks into it just do at least one down into where you start to see the white inside the seed then you take them now that you've scored them put them in a little water and now all we got to do is soak them overnight they'll start to swell the seat coats will start to break and then you plant up once they start to swallow up a little bit you know you did well if they don't swell up go back make your knotch a little deeper and try again and see if they start to swell and that seed coat starts to crack a little bit then all you got to do is plant it and wait and in the case of West Indian locust it's gonna take just a couple of weeks after doing this for them to come up I hope I've gotten you excited about the possibilities growing your own fruit and nut trees from seed is one of the most exciting and satisfying things you can do yes it takes a little bit of time but that investment in the future is fantastic it's a lot of fun and there's nothing like picking from a tree that you grew yourself from a little tiny seed the whole thing is a miracle and I hope you're gonna start seeing every fruit stand as a place to go looting and find little seeds that you can take home and plant I mean the seeds are everywhere how many seeds have you thrown away over the course of your life probably Millions if you planted them all there would be no place left on planet Earth to live for humans so just plant a few and get started and you're gonna have a lot of fun if you'd like to learn more about growing plants and trees for money check out my book it's just a short book called the easy way to start a home-based plant nursery and make thousands in your spare time I wrote it back when I had a plant nursery in the United States which was successful for very little bit of money I I was just like redneck propagating just starting all kinds of things from seed starting things from cuttings doing everything on a shoestring budget and much to my surprise with a little bit of marketing I was quite successful and you can do the same thing and all this there in that book you can pick up the book on Amazon or you can find it at my website the survival gardener com and now for something absolutely free check out my composting guide which we're giving away with the grow Network and that is in the link you'll see a little ad for it that is five easy ways to start composting right away stop throwing stuff in the landfill start stop worrying about all the bazillion rules that you see and in nitrogen and carbon and can you throw a paper in and can you throw meat in and learn to start composting like nature does it's so easy if anybody can do it so go and get it I made it for you guys to get for free so go get it for free and enjoy it and it will get you composting and stopping throwing the good stuff in the landfill I mean after all you're gonna need it to feed your new fruit trees right thanks for joining me good to see you all and until next time may your thumbs always be great I went to see David David the good we listened to partes head and drink spiced rum do you throw banana peels in the trash are your coffee grounds also being thrown in the trash do you compost ham are you sick and tired of all the rules about composting do you wish you could compost in a super easy way and stop throwing things in a landfill and stop being a terrible person click on the link below and sign up and get my new composting booklet which shows you how to compost easily and simply with hardly any any work at all it's insane how easy it is because it follows natural principles sign up now quantities are not limited you want some grapefruit it's good

Channel: David The Good

Views: 275,524

Rating: 4.8841529 out of 5

Keywords: David The Good, growing peach trees from seed, growing pawpaw seeds, growing papaya from seed, germinating tree seeds, growing cocoa, growing coconut, growing trees from seed, seedling trees, plant propagation, grapefruit seeds, growing cashew, starting coffee beans, growing coffee beans, germinating seeds, apple seeds, germinating apple seeds, growing pomegranate

Id: IY05vbd7GgI

Length: 38min 50sec (2330 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 26 2019