How to: Grow a Peach Tree From Seed, part 2

Where I left off last time, I had three different scenarios!

1. The peach seed that spent a solid 8 weeks in the fridge wrapped in a damp paper towel.
2. The peach seeds that spent 8 weeks in the fridge in their pits, and were then placed in a damp paper towel and hung in the window.
3. The peach seeds that spent 8 weeks in the fridge in their pits, and were stripped of their seed coat before being placed in a damp paper towel and hung in the window. 

Since these are all experiments, it's fair to say any of them may work! But my progress thus far is as follows!

For seed 1, who was already rooting when I stuck him in the window, after about a week, he was READY to be planted! Once planted, this little guy takes off! I'll feature it in another post!

As for seed groups 2 and 3, there was little change for the first few days after they made it into the window. We had a cold snap and the weather dropped down into the 30's and after a couple days of that, I started seeing a slight change!

Those in the seed coat (group 2) had very little change, and some of them even started molding! For these moldy ones, I decided to strip them of the seed coat as well, to hopefully prevent the mold from spreading. Well, it sort of worked. The mold didn't spread, but every day I checked on them, I had to wipe the mold off. They continued to grow though!

However, group 3 (no seed coat) were still off-white, but they started growing and getting "swollen". It was a very minute change though, almost unnoticable! And if you looked closely, you could see them starting to separate!

After about another week, All of the seeds who's coats had been peeled were ALL starting to grow and root! For all the seeds that still had seed coats, I saw little to no change. It really seems like removing the seed coat helped them grow!