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Volunteer Peach Trees

17 years ago

My compost pile is full of them. They're Red Haven, growing from last year's harvest. If I gave some away, would they grow into a decent tree?

I understand peaches are usually a grafted tree. Does anyone have experience growing Red Haven peaches from seed? Is it that the trunk will be weak, (not that it's a strong tree anyway) or what is the reason why a peach tree is grafted?

I have two peach trees, one of which reverted to it's graft stock. The tree is a very upright tree, not sprawling like my Red Haven tree. When I bought it, it was supposed to be a Red Haven. It makes peaches, and they are very sweet and flavorful but don't keep very well. So far I haven't seen very many peaches on this tree, but it's still a fairly young tree. Would I, a rank amateur, be able to graft one of these Red Haven peach tree volunteers onto this tree?

Or would it be better to leave well enough alone since the Red Haven, when frost doesn't get the flowers, is loaded and must be getting a good dose of cross-pollination from the other tree? Would two Red Havens pollinate each other?

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