5 Veggies You Should Never Grow From Seed

One thing everybody gets wrong when talking about seedling trees is saying, "The fruit will be unedible." This is very rarely the case. The fruit is edible. you're just more likely not to enjoy the flavor or texture. I know it sounds like a small nit pick, but I'm so tired of people freaking out over wild or homegrown apples, paires, and avocados thinking they're poisonous. There's a difference between low quality fruit and inedible fruit. Also, avocados need a pollination partner.

I've grown dragon fruit, guava, grapefruit, mango etc. from seed. Sometimes you get good fruiting trees and sometimes you don't. No matter what the outcome, it's always enjoyable. If I ended up with a good fruiting tree, then it's a bonus.

My grampa planted avocado from seed years ago and we still enjoy avocados from that same seed. Its edible, its just it takes years for it to fruit. Just start planting and youll enjoy the fruit of your labor❤

I started lemon seeds during Covid and 4 years later I am harvesting large juicy lemons A LOT OF THEM!

If nobody started fruiting trees from seed, they would no longer discover the GOOD different varieties varieties that can improve the gene pool of a species and make it more resistant. Remember the banana disease that has sent growers scrambling to find resistent varieties that are also tasty. This could happen with any fruit varieties because there are millions of clones and grafts of only a few individual plants. I have started trees from seed and my only regret is that I may not live long enough to try all their fruits. I realize that space may be an issue when devoting a big chunk of a small garden to a tree that might never feed you but it is possible to get lucky too and the satisfaction and gratitude one feels is worth having had a few misses.

My mother has grown an avocado from seed at nearly every place she has lived and they always produce delicious avocados. Mango trees, as well.

I have grown avocado from seed and it fruit like crazy, I have grown orange and lime from seed and the fruit perfectly.

My sister in CA planted an avocado seed in-ground more than 10 years ago and the tree has been a proliferous producer of good-tasting avocados for so many yrs now. It must have been luck. I have two little avocado trees growing fr my old compost corner now and it's just fun to see them grow. I guess I will have to kill them soon bc I don't want to invest in anything with no guarantee of reward. PS. lol, I changed my mind. I am in the Sonoran Desert and it is a challenge to grow avocados here. I think I will let the little trees grow to see if they will make it to maturity. They are growing under the protection of a mesquite tree so I want to see how they can get acclimated and develop into mature trees.

There's 2 types when faced with the same issue. "That will take years to make anything and you'll never know if it's good" A. " It's not worth it" B. " Then I've got no time to waste"

He is lying that most avocado trees produced inedible fruit. I am from Jamaica, and 90% of avocado trees on the island are grown from seeds. All the avocados that i have eaten in Jamaica, are way more tastier than hass. So they may take a lot longer to give fruit, and you may not get hass from planting hass seeds, but you could plant other avocado seeds and get very good avocados.

I live in the Caribbean and we have grown our avocado from seed. Also citrus can grow true to type from seed you just have to know what to look for

I knew a lady who grew quite a few avocados from seed and seemed happy with the harvest. The result weren't Haas(sp?) but I think it is a safe assumption that people liked avocados for thousands of years before anyone ever heard of that brand. (Perhaps Mayans(??) did graft their favorite trees, I don't know.) She also grew from supermarket hybrid tomatoes. They also weren't true to type but in a few generations she had tomato plants that did grow true to type, her type, meaning she liked the taste and they were well suited to the local environment. I'll admit they were a little different as you almost had to crack them like eggs the skin was so thick and tough, but that is because she successfully selected for insect resistance in an area with severe insect problems. I don't have a major issue with hybrids or clones, but as far as I can tell "not true to type" doesn't mean a citrus tree that grows potatoes, they just won't have exactly the same taste and other characteristics as the mother plant. If you have time and room for a few duds, it is fun to see what you get. Just think how boring it would be if all your children were the same. Some are better slow roasted and others grilled on the barbie so family mealtime doesn't get repetitive. j/k.

Actually a few of the popular varieties of Avocado were taken from trees started in peoples back yards in San Diego County. When the Panama Canal opened people taking cruises through the canal ate guacamole, fell in love with it and brought seeds home to plant out. Not only did that bring in a lot of genetic diversity for flavor, it also produced some trees that had more cold tolerance. Some crossed with seedlings of the Mexican types bringing in even more cold tolerance into the gene pool. Don’t be a Debbie Downer. There is nothing wrong with people enjoying the process of growing trees from seeds. If the fruit doesn’t turn out to be a winner you can always top work them with whatever varieties you want. I have a very productive Pinkerton Avocado that originated as a seedling in a Hass grove in Oxnard Ca. If your point is only that a Hass seed will give a tree with different genetics than its mother tree than yes you are correct.

I grew my avocado from seed and it was quite delish.

I totally understand the thing with time but it is so fun to see the little tiny bits of leaves coming out of the seeds!!! They are just like babies!!! They are sooooo cute!!! 😍

Fair amount of disinformation here.

propaganda from big already trusted varieties

While hass avocado trees grown from seed won't produce avocados that are identical to hass, they will be very similar and will be edible. I grew a hass avocado tree from seed and it is very similar to hass, but the fruit has a little bigger pits, and it is not quite as good as a hass, but definitely edible, and if making guacamole can't even tell the difference between it and a hass.

for strawberries, get a variety of everberrying plant (just one) and throw it in a large pot. it'll throw out runners that you can either individually pot or just firmly push into the soil in the pot and you'll end up with 10+ plants at the end of the season. its how i started a large strawberry patch.

why are you spreading blatant misinformation? you can support the idea of grafting without the misinformation part.