How to Plant Orange Seeds: Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction

Hi and welcome to my orange garden blog. Today, I’m going to teach you how to plant an orange tree from seeds and how to grow an orange tree.

Step 1: Selecting an Orange to Collect Seeds

Firstly, we need to get the seeds out. Here’s how to do it: I’ve collected an orange this week. So, the first thing to do is cut it from top to bottom. The reason why you don’t cut it across the middle is just in case you cut through all the seeds. Now, I will emphasize that I am doing this from a food market.

So I don’t even know what variety of orange this is. Growing from any kind of seed doesn’t guarantee knowing exactly how it’s going to taste once it’s grown. Just continue cutting the orange in quarters until you’ve found all of the seeds inside. how to plant an orange seeds.

Step 2: Extracting Orange Seeds

Growing any kind of citrus and fruit tree from seeds isn’t a quick payoff. You have to be patient because these will take up to three to five years to fruit. Trees of any type are really heavy feeders, so if you don’t fertilize or water correctly.

You may not get any fruit at all. The other thing is citrus and fruit trees really benefit from having two to three of the same variety so bees can cross-pollinate them and help for a bigger yield.

This is why I’m going to try to extract as many seeds as I can and germinate them all. Other people online would suggest drying these out for a few days. But I find doing this will make the seeds crack more and your success rate will be lower.

Step 3: Clearing Seed and Drying

So, here’s my quick and easy way on how to do this better: Instead of wasting days drying them out. Get yourself some kitchen roll. As soon as you’ve extracted the seeds from the orange, try to dry them out a little bit, just try to get the sticky residue off and all the juice.

It should be quite easy. Doing it while the seeds are still damp will mean that the shell doesn’t crisp up, and they’re a little bit more flexible and easy to remove. Once you’ve dried the seeds off as best you can, you’ll see a flat end at the top and a pointy end at the bottom.

Now, the easiest thing to do is just try to get your fingernail between the layers and pry the seed open gently. Being as gentle as you can, you should be able to prise both layers open and peel the seed nicely.

The seed may also come with the skin around it, so try to remove that as well. The reason why we peel the seed is to help it germinate a lot quicker.

If you leave it in the shell, this could take up to three to four weeks or maybe even rot inside and become completely useless. Doing it this way has given me a hundred percent success rate and allows me to see results within a few weeks.

Step 4: Seeds Wrapping with Paper

The next step is to get yourself a clean piece of kitchen roll and place the seeds in the middle gently, making sure that each seed isn’t touching and they’re about an inch apart.

Fold each side of the kitchen roll to the center, covering each seed. Once you’ve folded over each corner and covered all the seeds, you just need to write on it to make sure you know which seeds are what.

The next step is to water it. You don’t want this too wet, and you don’t want it too dry, just try to get it in between so it’s not dripping. Push out any air pockets.

Step 5: Cling Film Process

The final stage is to get yourself a square piece of cling film and place the square of the tissue paper with the seeds in it in the center. Then fold over each corner of the cling film, creating an airtight wrap.

Once you finish folding all the sides, press on the top gently and squeeze all the air out. Now, you just have to place this in a warm, dark place for a week or two.

Step 6: Finishing Cling Film Process

Here are the seeds two weeks later, and as you can see, I’ve gently taken it out of the cling film. Now, just unfold all the layers and be really careful not to break the seeds.

Now it doesn’t matter if you do leave a bit of the kitchen roll on the seeds because that will just rot away anyway once you plant it. Just be really careful not to break the root system.

Step 7: Seeds Planting in Container

Then get yourself any kind of planting container, but make sure there are enough drainage holes in the bottom. Now you can use homemade compost or any kind of potting soil. Once you’ve filled it, you just need to dig a little hole and place the seed inside.

Just make sure that the seed is buried two to three times its own size. I’m really happy with the root system on this. Now I am going to bury a little bit deeper than I usually would, but make sure that the whole root and the seed are completely covered.

This may take a little bit more compost. I’m just going to top it up. Now don’t push the soil down too hard, but pat it down just to get rid of any air pockets. Once it’s all covered nicely, you just need to water it in. The last thing to do is just label it up.

Step 8: Give Time to Grow Your Seeds

Now all that’s left to do is leave these pots on a warm windowsill or a greenhouse anywhere that gets at least six hours of sunlight a day. You should start seeing the seedlings pushing through the soil as little as five days later.

Here they are again just over two weeks and again just under four weeks. Now, we should be really into summer by now, but the days and nights are still really cold so I think this is hindering the growth process.

This is six weeks in and they’ve only just started producing their true leaves. I’ve decided to repot these early, hoping that the new nutrients in the soil will give these a little boost.

This is eight weeks in and as you can see, they’ve hardly progressed in the past few weeks. Now this is definitely down to lack of heat and lack of sunlight so I suggest you do keep these as warm as possible.

FAQs about Planting Orange Seeds

Can I use a plastic bottle for growing roots orange seeds?

Yes, you can use a plastic bottle for growing roots orange seeds.

Can I use damaged orange for collecting orange seeds?

You can use damaged orange seeds for planting oranges, but remember, if you have the option to, then always use good orange seeds to plant.

Note

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