Peach stones-the growing of.

[Emagggie]

Whilst on my hols recently I munched many delicious peach like fruits-the difference being the small squashed shape and oh so lovely flavour. Of course, I have brought all the stones home in the hopes of growing my own. I don't have a clue how to go about it. Anybody out there had success with  similar? Any info gratefully received.

[Emagggie]

[saddad]

They don't come true from the stone, and it would take about a decade to find out what it was like. You can get them from fruit suppliers nowadays, Jalousia (?) springs to mind!
:)

[laurieuk]

As saddad says they will not come true but also they are likely to grow very large with no fruit at all.The peach trees you but are graftec or budded onto a root stock to help control the growth.

[jennym]

Not sure I understand why the stone would produce a tree that doesn't fruit well? Surely it’s the rootstock, chosen for its characteristics that doesn't fruit well, and the grafted stock, from which the fruit comes, is the fruiting variety?

If they are grown in an orchard, and commercially that's very likely, the stone should show characteristics of the fruiting stock. Therefore, you could grow it, and then graft it onto a dwarfing rootstock (if you can get a cutting â€" that’s the hard part). You could try taking a cutting from any shoots that sprout from the base of someone's small plum tree, or a small peach tree, this should be dwarfing rootstock. If you can get this going and rooted well, then the stem growing from your stone could be grafted onto it. All in the name of fun of course - keep meaning to have a go myself at this sort of thing :)
Meantime, if you do want a peach, this sounds similar to the one you describe,
http://www.marshalls-seeds.co.uk/rkmain.asp?PAGEID=20670&STK_PROD_CODE=1070-5652
or, there’s this one:
http://www.keepers-nursery.co.uk/product.aspx?id=ROYGEO&v=1&action=1

[laurieuk]

The reason a tree grown from a stone may produce a tree that does not fruit is because the peaches grown as a crop are hybrids (cultivars) and hybrids plants do not come true from seed. If you want to reproduce the one you have you can, with some things take cuttings,or graft or bud onto a root stock that is there to control the growth. Root stock can be used to promote fruit, increase amount of roots, influence the size of the tree.

[jennym]

Thanks laurie!  :)

[Emagggie]

Heavens! It all sounds sooooo complicated. Thanks for your input everybody, and thanks also Jenny for the links. I think it was Saturn by appearance- the flavour was sublime.I am going to have a word with the birthday fairy and get myself a ready grafted tree. ;D