Could you please teach me how to plant fruit trees from seeds and pits? I have plum and peach pits and don't know how to go about it. I also have a giant Catalpa Tree. I has hundreds of pods on it and there are seeds inside of the pods. I don't know whether to plant the pod or take the seeds out of the pod and plant them. I need your your help. I live in Northern Utah, Davis County
Thank you so9 much.

It's a complicated process nd a long explinyion, here is a you tube of some fruit trees. Just google what others you my want ro start. Peaches
https://youtu.be/v_360x4z4pQ?s...
Plums
https://youtube.com/shorts/hD6...

For plums and peaches: eat the fruit.

Clean the pit (I use a scrub brush).

Plant each pit (about 3 - 4 inches down) in a one gallon pot of potting soil.

Leave them in a protected spot outside over winter (if your winters are severe, bury the pots in leaves or chunky bark mulch).

Unbury the pots next spring and watch for little tree sprouts.

I've never planted a Catalpa tree. Sorry!

I googled it...

https://www.uky.edu/hort/propa...

Everything I read about growing catalpa from seed suggested that it was easy....
but I'd shell the pod... plant seed individually.
It may be difficult to spot the seed... I searched for pics of seed w/o success... but did find this description at Dave's Garden:

https://davesgarden.com/guides...
It is in the off-season well after summer and fall have passed when chances are high that these seed pods will have viable seeds inside. It seems that the longer the seed pods stay on the tree, the better. A dry seed pod found on the ground or taken from the bare Catalpa at winter's end is the best way to get seeds.

Snug against the inside of the round pod casing were little cloth-like sacks cleverly designed in the same exact color as the inside walls of the seed pod. They had to be coaxed out with my finger. Inside of each beige sack were a few seeds.

Some trees can be difficult... When I got some seed of the honey locust, they didn't come up until I both scarified (cut into seed coat) and soaked in warm water for a week...

When I collected fruit from ginko... I actually did plant the entire fruit...

As far as peach and plum?
I always just planted seed in garden, allowed the winter to break the dormancy... seeds always came up in the spring w/o difficulty.

JoanVickers said: Could you please teach me how to plant fruit trees from seeds and pits?

Fruit trees?
Considering the considerable amount of time from seeding to fruiting, and the care and space required to grow the tree out to fruiting size, I'd just go buy grafted ones from a reputable nursery (like Valley Nursery in Uintah) to be sure you end up with a great fruiting tree in a few years.

Yeah- not the answer you wanted.

Sure you can grow fruit trees from seeds, but because of the genetics of pollination, common fruit trees won't produce fruit with the characteristics of the parent tree's fruit- it will likely be disappointing when/if it does fruit- but you wont know until many years from now. Some call a seedling fruit tree 'wild fruit.'

"But," you say "that's OK!"
Alright-
Try this link:

penn State Extension said:
The seeds of all common tree fruits (apple, pear, peach, and cherry) require a chilling period before they will germinate and form new plants. The chilling period, known as dormancy or after-ripening, occurs after the fruit portion is ripe. During this period the embryo develops until it is mature. The necessary after ripening could be accomplished by the following two systems....

Read more...
https://extension.psu.edu/grow...

Giant catalpas?
I have volunteers in my yard from a neighborhood tree- probably bird sown.

If the tree needs a separate pollinator (like pluots that are pollinated by a plum or another pluot), I would agree that what you are growing is a hybrid and the resulting fruit will be an interesting mix - that doesn't necessarily mean it will be inedible or the tree won't fruit. But most fruit trees are either grown in a big field of the same tree so pollinated by the same variety. Or pollinated by another flower on the same tree. Yes, there are some genetics that come into to play if the tree in question is a hybrid as then you will be pulling ancestry from the tree itself and its pollinator but...

There are seed grown fruit trees in a lot of back yards with perfectly decent fruit.

I am currently attempting to germinate Indian Red Peach pits - the variety is old enough that in 3 or 4 years, my little trees will produce something very close to the original.

In the past, I have grown Ume' (Prunus mume) from pits - I can't tell the difference from the original.

While most peaches do not need pollinator companion, most plums do. In the past, the mantra was (and still is) American plums need an American plum companion, European plums need a European plum companion, and Japanese plums need a Japanese plum companion. This is still generally true, although just like sweet cherries, hybridizing and selection has produced some self pollinating varieties. But it would be unlikely that a plum tree grown from seed would be self pollinating.