October 20, 2021

A couple of edits:

I believe Neal Peterson looked at trees that produced fruit with a 6% or less seed to fruit ratio. In developing his cultivars, he weighed multiple fruit from the same tree for several years to analyze this. Not just 1 fruit from 1 year.

Freezing may not kill the seed, but I would suspect that seed viability could be negatively impacted by it in some way. If you really want to freeze them, go for it! Let us know how that works for you. Give feedback scientifically showing a percentage of sprouted to non sprouted seeds.

Please don’t illegally propagate protected varieties. The researchers and breeders that have brought improvements to the market deserve this respect.

Seeds need at least 100 days of cold stratification. Not 100 hours.

[danielsmith]

I don't have scientific feedback but I do have an anecdote. I had a standard grocery store shopping bag full of very seedy, wild pawpaws that I had put into the freezer and forgotten about for a year or two that I eventually dumped in the compost pile. The next year I had about a 10 pawpaw seedlings come up in a clump in the middle of the pile. There weren't a hundred seedlings like if I had refrigerated the seeds properly but some of them did survive more than 12 months inside whole fruits in a freezer.

[emilierojas]

I would like to grow a fig tree there’s in my apartment I live in Riverside County in California so zone nine I have a balcony that gets full sun mid fall to late winter and then sun through my living room window late winter to early fall 
and I would appreciate any guidance you send my way. Thanks a bunch.