Growing fruit plants from supermarket bought (and eaten) fruit

flutterbybutterfly

I recently read an article on growing Pineapple plants from the crown of the pineapple after enjoying the fruit. I have given it a go and it looks successful so far, see this link if you don't know what I mean (although I am not as obsessed with my pineapple plant as the author of this site!) http://www.unirom.co.uk/nhaggett/MyPineapples/mypineapples.html

I wondered what other plants you could easily and quickly grow from the "waste" products after eating fruit. I know that apple pips can sometimes be successful but more likely to fail.

So far I have found:-

Avocado pear plants - Wash the avocado stone(s), push 3 cocktail sticks into it, place on top of a jar of water covering 2cm of stone and place in a warm spot out of direct sunlight, roots appear 2-6 weeks later, grow the stem to 15cm then cut back to 7cm, wait till roots are thick and leaves on stem you can plant it. Leaving the stone half-exposed.

Root Ginger - novelty crop rather than for harvesting large numbers of rhizomes. Select roots from your grocery that are firm without wrinkles, and have a slight shine. It is also good to look for small green buds at the ends of the off shoots from the big root. Start rhizomes in a pot of good quality potting compost. Use a pot that has a diameter at least four times the length of your root. Fill the pot to about ¾ full, place the root flat on top of the soil, and cover so that you have about an inch of potting soil over the root after you water. Do not cover too deep or the rhizome could rot. Place in a location where the pot will receive plenty of indirect sunlight and soon you should see shoots appearing. You may plant out in a shady location after all danger of frost has past but the plant will do better when grown in a greenhouse. Ginger cannot tolerate direct sunlight. They like rich, loose soil, regular watering, and most important, shade. A general-purpose fertilizer may be applied occasionally, but if you forget, don't worry about it, the ginger will do fine.

Papaya - From the seeds inside supermarket bought fruits.

Coffee Plant - (from unroasted beans) attractive houseplant. Sow a fresh unroasted bean in seed compost.

I would love to know if any of you have any more ideas.

Jayar

I can't bear to throw away perfectly good seeds you find in supermarket fruits and have tried to grow most things, with varying degrees of success. However, my method is usually to bung the seed in an existing pot plant and if it grows it grows, but if it doesn't - nothing lost. My avacado plant came from a seed that I chucked in beside a palm until it sprouted.
You can really grow the most interesting of plants for free - my favourite word

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i done this a few years ago with the seeds from peppers.....
just put the seeds on kitchen paper to dry out and then planted then the following year....

sold a load of the plants in a boot sale.... so a good way of earning some extra pennies....;)

reformedsplurger

Thanks for a great idea Flutterbybutterfly, can't wait to go and buy a pineapple now, the pictures of the pineapple plant on the website you linked to look fantastic. :T

prost

http://cahe.nmsu.edu/ces/yard/2000/040800.html has info on using seeds from lemons-takes 15 years.

Also twist a pineapple head off & grow in water.

http://www.unwinsdirect.co.uk has melon seeds you can grow in the kitchen.

mapcr77

Of everything i'm growing this year, the most successful has been butternut squash, which I grew from seeds from one we had some weeks ago. The rest has been from bought seeds, so now I feel guilty everytime i put "waste" in the compost bin, so many potential crops there! :rotfl:

MrsTinks

I have a butternut squash that I keep meaning to do something with... if nothing else then so I can grow the seeds lol!!!

Other seeds I've grown are chilli's - from the seeds I had last year Except they got mixed up with the ones I bought so I have no idea which plants are which :eek:
Tomato's can be grown from the seeds if you want - just dry them out on a kitchen towel and then plant them. I will save some from my plants this year and see how they go next year Especially my beef tomato and my yellow tomato plants. Maybe try the same with my courgettes... hmmm
I have to say though I am sorely tempted to try the pineapple growing... if nothing else then just to get an interesting house plant And if I don't like it I can give it away as a present to someone I am sure :rotfl:

Farway

Peanuts, you need the unroasted in shell type, often sold as bird food

The squirrels plant them in my garden and up they come, look like a pea plant, never had any peanuts as they are outside & winter kills them

BTW, before any one says, I am aware the "nuts" grow underground [hence they AKA goundnuts] and do not hang from the plant

Could make an interesting house plant

Pandora123_2

I've grown mango, kumquat, chikoo, longkong, guava, coffee and sugar apple.

First four from supermarket fruit, last three from a seed supplier.

:A

mapcr77

Last time I went to Mexico brought some dry chillies, I put the seeds in compost and they germinated!