What's going on, everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. I hope you're

doing well. Cameron, you're back on the show. We're talking fruit trees today.

Yeah, what's up, Kevin? What's going on? So, I get this question a lot. Certainly, I can

imagine you would. A lot of people, especially with citrus, it seems like, probably because

it's just a common fruit that people buy at the store. Hey, can I grow this? You're

week 11 from seed. Hey, can I just plant this and grow it out? And, you know, I know my answer.

I'm curious what you tell people who asked you that. That is that is an entirely common question,

because everybody has they finished a tasty piece of fruit and then you're left with this seed

or with a pit and you're thinking, I can plant this seed and have all the fruit I want forever.

And that's that is something you could do. You could plant it, but you're not always going to

get what you think you're going to get when you do that. Biggest thing that people often don't

understand when they plant a try to plant a tree from seed is that the tree, the eventual tree

and the eventual fruit that grows out is usually not going to be the same fruit as the parent tree.

And the reason for that is the seed that you have is actually the product of reproduction.

So you've got two different parent trees that are passing along certain traits and those traits

are going to express themselves in ways you might not expect. It's kind of like having regular kids,

same two parents, but could have wildly different, you know, looking kids both in height and color

and hair color, eye color, all those things. And so, yeah, the fruit that comes out and it sometimes

the fruit is better. Actually, a lot of the varieties of fruit that have been developed over the years

have been through intentional cross pollinating and planting seeds, but they're doing it that at a

massive scale where they're planting hundreds of trees and coming up with maybe a few

marketable varieties. So the chance of you, the consumer, grabbing that pit from that

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