5 Veggies You Should Never Grow From Seed

I'm in the mountains of Central Mexico at an elevation of 5,000 feet. The area is considered high desert, with a rainy season from June through August. What do I need to do and know to grow artichokes?

I'm becoming more and more interested in growing a variety, if not at least a couple, of table veggies and citrus. This video was informative and easy to follow, thank you! 👌🙏

The naturally produced, "inedible" avocado is NOT the mutation. The Haas is closer to being unnatural (AKA "mutation," as you use the word). The one you grow from seed is the way God or the Universe meant it to be.

Tons of people in Florida grow avocados from seed and like the results. So who cares if its not perfect

I guess a lot of people, including me, have won the avocado lottery.

I think what he meant to say for most of these but only really said about one thing, is a lot of produce we buy in the store is a hybrid variety that when you plant the seeds will not produce the same variety. Hybrids are usually made by crossing 2 plants (not grafting) and kind of like a mule, they can't make another by breeding two mulls, they have to breed a horse and a donkey again. If you plant seeds from a hybrid fruit, you will get one of the parent plants instead of the original (horse or a donkey, no mull). When he talks about grafting, that doesn't mean that the plant you grow from that seed won't grow or produce fruit, but the original tree is often grafted onto something that has a better chance of surviving your climate, etc. Your new plant from seed won't have that same protection and may not make it in the same climate.

Green skin avocadoes happen naturally around my area (well at least lots of untended trees that grow by themselves), the fruit is normal.

Would it be a good idea to grow these?

They key lime and Persians I planted from seed 25yrs ago have now died from greening but gave about 15-20yrs of amazing fruit.
Also the orange, not true to original but more tasty than about any around here in Florida now dead but grown from seed.

I'm trying to get some air layers or maybe cuttings from a friend's relatives avocado she grew from seed and tastes about better than any and is massively productive.

Also the mango grown from seed and it's offspring from seed taste slightly but not too different and are about the most tasty mangos everyone around including those from all the carribean island areas say are by far the most tasty.

This video is overflowing with sooooooo much misleading information. It's actually kind of mind-boggling. Every single plant listed can not only be grown from seed to produce edible, nutritious fruits and/or veggies, but also many of them are actually more nutritious by returning the plant to the gene pool instead of planting a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. Sure, not everyone is willing to wait the extra time it takes to grow a plant to maturity in order reap its harvest, but that's up to the individual, and to broad-blanket state that these plants should never be grown from seed is as misleading and false as it is to say, I don't know, put up a video with a title picture that shows an arrow pointing to an avocado sprout alongside some text that says, "This doesn't grow into an avocado tree." >_>

Thanks for the content. I agree with some, but not all. While it is true you don't know what you might get with citrus, you still get something decent most of the time. I planted some lemon seeds, and it doesn't grow the same fruit quite as pretty as the store (and it has a lot more seeds), it still is a useful lemon. I mostly don't agree on thyme. Yes, it is hard to grow (why?),. But unlike a hearty rosemary bush, the plants grow smaller and less hearty....and don't last as long. Also, you end up using a lot more of the thyme plant....which isn't great for the plant (so it's better to have more plants). BTW, how about the long day/short day onion problem? As a novice, I bought seeds before figuring out I lived in an area without enough sunlight.

For people who think avocados are a good choice from seed, YES it's possible to get edible avocado from seeds, but they take forever to mature and may never actually produce edible avocados, but it can take as long as 20 years to know for sure if it will produce or not, same with citrus although they do t take as long...

It's possible, yes, but it's just Soo rare as he said in the video, why risk wasting 1-2 decades, then just getting one you know will be good?

I wish you had told me about the avocado four years ago. I tried so many times. I got one thin stalk that died tragically. I was heart broken.

Few months ago, I saw a listing on Amazon for Ranier Cherry "seeds". If you've not seen them, Raniers are red and yellow (being sweet and sour).

I tried reporting the listing as fraudulent, since Rainier trees are infertile from being graftings of two species, but nothing happened. Just now, i saw that there's several more listings of the same nonsense.

And heck, even if you buy a tree you can't get busy fruit from it without surrounding it with cherry trees of species that self pollinate.

Good tasting and avocado aren't words I would associate together.

To grow an avocado or apple from seeds and get an edible plant is like hitting the lottery

First off, yes, you can get edible avocados from a tree grown from a seed. Takes for-friggin-ever! But you sure can.
I mean, how in the hell did avocados even come to be if they can't be grown from seeds? That's kinda silly, no?
Edit: they taste like shit tho lol

My anecdotal evidence is loudly saying different on a few of these 🤣

Put a paper towel under slightly warm water. Open the paper towel up, place on plate. Add the strawberry seeds with space to grow. Fold towel over itself. Keep moist. When it germs use clean tweezers to pick them up (GENTLY!) place in clay terrace pot. Be careful. After the last freeze and it's around 60f out place pot on garden bed. The plant will grow out and spread into bed. My mom was a master gardener. We did this every year and had literally thousands of strawberries... Well as long as I didn't eat them... Bed was about 4.5'×20'. it was soil, dead leaf, sticks, broken clay pots, and it was a raised bed with weed stop placed on grass and garden timbers. In the winter we placed weed stop black then about an inch gap with plastic. The next year they should come back but didn't always. Super easy as long as you can be extremely clean with the germination steps....

My artichokes (from a starter, not seed) only took a season to start growing flowers, then it returned every year until I forgot about it one very hot summer

But, if you know what you're doing due to your experience with other plants, doing your own hunt for interesting, or known, or unique phenotypes of a plant can be a lot of fun.

I got a few avocados growing they are doing quite well. Planted directly into the ground took like 3 months

So TRUE😎

I don’t understand this video, because I've grown all my citrus trees from seeds and they all bring fruits, as well as 5 Avocado trees, i think this is for folks living in North America

Im not sure you understand horticulture very well if you think plants grown from seeds grow inedible fruit. Cloning only ensures the genes are the exact same as its parents. Youre just picky.

I have grown multiple avocado trees that have given me fruit that I started from seed

I have a volunteer avocado tree that grew out of our compost pile. It is 5 meters tall and it makes perfect fruit. You need to fertilize it if you want it to produet well.

We had a peach tree that grew from a pit from a publix peach we tossed into the bushes at our shop. It actually produced peaches that were super tasty. Just it was nothing like the store bought peach, it was much smaller (like size of a golf ball) and mostly stayed green with just a hint of color when it ribened, but it was sweet and tasted like peaches.

Your right about strawberries. We tried to grow some, but they basically acted like weeds and took over the whole garden, and didn't give much fruit either. What little they did the wildlife usually got to them first. Mint is another that will just take over if your not careful.

Is this a joke?

why does the thumbnail say "these won't grow avocado trees" yet you literally say in the video that they will grow into avocado trees but they just wont taste good. boring 🥱

YOU CAN PLANT AVO SEEDS I live in Hawaii most of our avos are

WHEN YOUR VID GETS BUMPED BC BIG AVO WANTS TO LIE TO AMERICA

Why is it that our media promotes so heavily the concept of gambling on cards and dice, but discourages gambling from finding a new and interesting flavour of fruit. Such an interesting Ideology

Can someone explain why grafting has to happen to grow a fertile edible tree? Trees in nature dont graft themselves, they drop seeds.

why bother

Man I get annual and perennial mixed up all the time, too. Because annual usually means something like "every year."

What? if you grow a fruit from a grafted tree you gonna have the exact kind of fruit that you have buyed, the frui come from the grafted part, grafting are for growing more resistant plants.

There are citrus that do come true from seed and citrus that don't. A subset of the ones that can come true from seed may not do well on their own roots in your soil. That still leaves a subset that's going to be just fine. Plant your key limes, and Kalamansi limes (calamondin orange) without fear. Just be aware that your Valencia oranges come true from seed, but the fruit might not be sweet in your conditions.

Avocados arent veggies theyre fruit

Aguacate is self pollinating I always seem to get true to seed maybe it's just my tree

The most important reason that I know of to not grow and avocado from seed is that the trees grow to a huge size. It then is impractical to harvest all of the avocados and the ones that you don't get attract Norway rats, possums, dogs etc. The shade is so dense that nothing else can be grown around them. If you have a landlord who says no to everything, they will also say no to pruning a tree for optimal health and fruit production. It is better to buy a grafted one like a semi-dwarf to begin with.

As a Mexican who has grown avocado trees that bear edible gruit from a seed, please, get a grip 😂

Every plant grows from a seed. So, you actually have to grow everything from a seed. If you didn't, somebody did, or nature did. What a silly title lol

That title card is inaccurate, it will grow avocado , just not hass avocado because of genetics and stuff

How do you transplant small watermelon plants? Mine always die after repotting.

I get liquid eggs from boneless chicken.

🙏😎 🌱

I didn't know that avocados, citrus fruits and strawberries were considered to be vegetables. Do you even know the difference?

Great information. Last year I tried onions from seed for the first time and sadly walked away when they died off. Not wanting to rip them out, I left them in the pot and later noticed they were starting new green leaf shoots. Now in their second year they are looking healthy and awesome. That sort of information should be put on the seed packets, but then, who would buy seeds that take two years to harvest?

Hey this is one of my oldest videos but it's just popped off in the algorithm. I wasn't good at speaking to camera when I made this, so I articulated a few points poorly.

I advocate starting everything you can from seed. The point of this video is for brand new Gardners, what are the few veggies that are worth splashing cash on for established plants. I.e. spending $50 on an advanced fruit tree to skip 3-5 years of growth and garuntee the variety you're getting.

A lot of comments have assumed I'm somehow advocating for the human race to never grow anything from seed ever again. But that's just silly to think

Feel free to keep commenting as it helps push the video to more people

P.s. Avocados are vegetables (as well as fruit) I have a whole video on what defines a vegetable if you're interested 🥦🥑