How To Grow Plum Trees From Seed, 4.5 Months Old!

How to grow Plum Trees from seed!
Second video in a new series about growing plum trees - or at least my second attempt at it! The first one failed because I transplanted the germinated plum seeds before the roots were large enough to adapt from the ziploc bag into soil. I've learned my lesson and I've restarted the series in the next video.

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Sorry for the delay but we are now ready to get the second series of Growing Plum Trees from Seeds kicked off!

I do have a few questions for everyone in this video:
1) Should I top the Plum Sapling?
2) Should I leave it alone and just adjust the shelving?
3) Should I go ahead and transplant it outside now?

Other thoughts:
1) One of the Saplings appears to have Peach tree leaves? Is it going to be a peach tree or do the leaves just look like a peach tree's leaves but likely a plum hybrid?

The plum seeds that I am using in this series were purchased from an organic grocery store and I left the plums in the fridge for more than 3 extra months - a form of stratification, if you will.
After several months in the cold fridge (when they were near rotting) I removed the seeds. Then I used a small hammer to crack the seed shell and remove the actual seeds.
Next, I tested the seeds for viability by soaking them in water for about an hour to ensure the seeds sank (this usually means that they are viable seeds).
I then used the wet paper towel/ziploc bag method to create a mini greenhouse for them and placed them in a warm dark place.
Finally, after 3 weeks, 2 of them sprouted. I waited another week to ensure the roots were healthy enough and there was some green seed leaves emerging before I transplanted them.
It's been 3 months now and both are doing well.
One I topped for a test to see how it grows compared to a non-topped one.

I am excited to see how these plum trees grow over the next several months.

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[swainston]

Top it and make a plum bush, the bonus is you can keep inside away from pests and desease, let it fill out and take it outside in a year or two.

[larryd]

You may have gotten lucky. A lot of fruits need a pollinator, generally a closely related variety, your seedling probably had a peach pollen parent so it could end up producing some delicious fruit (or not). It could also be a cross between a plum and almond. The almond is a close relative of the peach. A lot of interspecific hybrids within the genus Prunus are getting popular including apricots, cherries etc.. I hope yours is a winner. Keep us posted when it bears fruit. To paraphrase; seeds are like a box of chocolates you never know what you will get. I grow all of my citrus from seed. They make a great house plant, are often clones of the original (it's a citrus thing) and are not grafted on dwarfing rootstock so in warm regions they will grow really tall.

[srk]

Good looking project.
I collected some overripe fallen Mirabelle plums from a neighbors driveway. So at least I'm sure of where they came from and that they're able to grow in my area. I'm excited to get those started.

[tabithaschooner]

Thanks for sharing! I've been wanting to learn how to grow plums from store bought plums at home. There's not a lot of info online about how to grow them from seeds...

[tinalewis]

Interesting to see what kind of fruit it produces 😊

[jvslyke]

the more you top it the more it will encourage trunk thickening and root growth. i dont think it will hurt it. keeping it pruned small may be better for a back yard.

[nevahalle]

Plums have to be pollinated from another tree. Maybe this plum was pollinated from a peach tree, since they are in the same family and has strong peach tendencies.

[sweetlilwitch]

Would like an update on the progress of your two trees and curious to see what they look like now. And, please update your grow light link. Thanks, and happy gardening!

[victormcox]

I done some black walnuts and just kept them in moist soil over the winter. Never cracked them. They busted themselves. Thanks for the video. We've got some plums from our store bought trees and we're trying to propagate them. Are plums like apples? You can get them to grow, but more than likely, it will not be true to the parent tree? Just wondering.

[PompomYourkey]

Ummm I have one question, I was growing a avocado from a store bought seed and it dose not look like a avocado it’s more like a plum tree but the seed is an avocado. I have the same problems as you but with different trees.

[mimib]

That one that was topped is growing quite fast & is way darker

[mrjeff]

You may have already figured out the many different varieties of plums, but you may want to check out the following variety; A Japanese plum variety known for its sweet, juicy flesh and peach-like leaf appearance. off the top of my head there is the shiro plum and the methley plum trees, which are both Japanese varieties. Just thought I would throw that in for ya. Your doing great though, you have a nice growing season. :)

[frankdavidson]

try some Epsom salts on the smaller tree helps green color its a trace element magnesium

[katrinalafoy]

Hi, I would top it, make it bushier and will keep it indoors longer. I'm curious of the turn out.
Thanks for the vid.

[RobBackyardGardenerr]

I do have a few questions for everyone in this video:
1) Should I top the Plum Sapling?
2) Should I leave it alone and just adjust the shelving?
3) Should I go ahead and transplant it outside now?

Other thoughts:
1) One of the Saplings appears to have Peach tree leaves? Is it going to be a peach tree or do the leaves just look like a peach tree's leaves but likely a plum hybrid?

[Lyca]

I know I'm commenting on a very old video, but I recently germinated and planted some pink lady apple seeds (and yes, I know I will have to graft on them) but I have three seedlings and they all have very, very different looking leaves. Different colours, different shapes.
And these seed all came from the same apple.

[MargretGarbo]

I've topped mine. And maybe you have a new variation of plum with the s3cond one.

[infocat]

F-1, F-2 hybrids plus X-ray treatment of store-bought plants?

[anacondavapes]

That happens to me all the time I plant something and it changes to something els. I had a lemon that turned into a pepper and strawberry’s that turned into tomatoes. It’s strange and a little frustrating

[KKoKoRR]

Plum leaves can look like a peach leaves. Because plums, peaches, apricots, almons.. all they are same family, roseceae or rose family.

edit: you already said that. I reacted early.