Shauna, maybe John missed the point of your question so I'm going to tell it differently.

Peaches can be grown from seed if it never dried out after you ate it. It will never grow this year because there are time periods (stratification) that the seed has to go through for several months. You can try storing it in a compost pile in your yard or other places underground that can't get too dry. I have seen seeds sold on eBay like almond seeds and they germinated well for me because somebody stored them for me the right way.

John, peaches have been an improved species for a long time and will grow true from seed. Variances are very small. There are too many peach examples to cite but a typical one off the top of my head would be peach orchards that exist in California that do use peach rootstock from 'elberta' seedlings which are not clones to each other per say and which will come true to each other in health, size, and everything. Older orchards starting over again will not use 'elberta' seedlings because of problems to the peach roots over years of building up soil borne pests such as nematodes where in such cases the agricultural departments do recommend clones that are bred "resistant". These resistances are probably "new" in the sense that not every seedling will inherit that from the stand point of the breeder so the breeder may have a choice to leave it as is or work the generations down further to lock it in and then at such time distribute seeds.

A good example of an opposite to peach would be the sweet cherry which you might have difficulty germinating seeds from if you happened to be saving seed from some of the self pollinating cherries they have like 'Lapins'. The only ones that will do well for you of a batch of seed of 'Lapins' will be that borne of pollen from other sweet cherry pollinators as I've tried it and think I've heard of other try too. These obstacles simply don't exist with peach seed.

Stratification: One year a long time ago I had improved results growing peach seeds sealed in the fridge as long as myrobalan plum seed was stored side by side then they come right up in the fridge by February. Apart from each other then only the plum seeds would come up.

So I have a 20' tall apple tree that I grew from seed which is super healthy and produces good tasting apples (one out of several that I grew from seed -- but only this one is healthy). The apples are like a crisp version of a golden delicious. Is there interest here in such an apple? i.e. since it is new.

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The apples are like a crisp version of a golden delicious. Is there interest here in such an apple? i.e. since it is new.

Of course there is interest - at least among readers of this forum. Give the thing a name and bring some to the All About Fruit show in the fall.[/quote:2u6xhhxw]
OK, I will! Although when it was blooming the weather wasn't to good (no pollinators) so I just have a few apples this year. But I will baby them until the show.

Are there any do's & don'ts for naming apples?