Tumbleweed375 said:

If you eat a plum, peach, or cherry (I think a bunch of other stone fruits too) you need to trick the seed into thinking it spent winter in the soil (cold stratification) to increase germination rate.
I'm going to test it out. The seeds rarely grow a similar fruit to the mother (too bad, the batch of white peaches was insanely sweet and juicy ).
Step 1: eat the fruit and split the pit. A pliers is perfect for this. The peach and the plum look a lot like almonds.
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Next soak them for a couple hours and put them in a damp paper towel in the fridge for 3 months. I have a couple more plums, peaches, and about 2lbs of cherries to eat before I start the cold stratification .

This guy makes me want to add a turtle to my grow:
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Oldchucky said:

Yeah, almonds, and all of those stone fruits are very closely related! And they are all fruit! An almond tree is a fruit tree! Kind of weird!

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Tumbleweed375 said:

Really cool! Can you eat the fruit of an almond? Or I guess a better question would be, would you want to eat them?
I know a cashew grows on the top of an apple, but the apple is poisonous!

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Oldchucky said:

I don’t think you can! You can only eat the pit! I’ll have to Google cashews! There really isn’t much flesh on almonds! If you want to get confused, look up,Drupes!

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Tumbleweed375 said:

Now that's a rabbit hole.
Seems like if we only eat the seed (walnuts, almonds, pecans) of a drupe instead of the fruit (peaches, plums, cherries) we just call them a nut!
I want to eat a plum seed now . Hope my germ rates are high

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Oldchucky said:

You have to watch out for a lot of those pits! Some of them contain cyanide! Lol! But not enough to kill you! Put on a little cyanide buzz!

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