How To Regrow 6 Types Of Fruit From Your Kitchen Scraps

Tasty Vegetarian put together this very informative video on how common kitchen fruit snacks can re-grow using these simple techniques.

What You Will Need

  • Strawberry, Raspberry, Tomato, Lemon, Avocado, Pineapple
  • Mason jars or cups
  • Toothpicks
  • All-purpose or seed-starting soil
Comments
Serena Coots Joyce · I‘ve tried it with tomato slices and it does work.
Sandi Minerds I have an Avocado tree, 27yrs old, that I grew from seed of one I had eaten. Took 7yrs, but it fruited and has done so for all these years. There are no other Avo trees anywhere in my area. I have 60 on it this season..
Sharon Baker Guss Put apple seeds in a damp paper towel and closed container or baggie and put in fridge, after a few weeks check and see if the seeds have sprouted, if so put into soil in pots and they will grow. I have 2 on my patio right now.
Narayanan Maruthamangalam Definitely not true with avocado. I have a plat at home and nothing else in the neighborhood. It bears fruit every year.
Mike Colburn Most fruit sold in stores are genetically modified not to produce fruit from their seeds. You will grow a plant, but but get any fruit it anything that is edible.
Serena Coots Joyce ·I did this with tomato slices last year and I got tomatoes!!! It works for tomatoes at least. I don’t know about anything else. I put 4 slices in a large pot on top of soil and covered them with more soil and when the little sprouts came up, I transferred the 4 largest ones in another pot and eventually I had a really good tomato plant and quite a few tomatoes.

Rona Astel Shacham ·Not true… Avocado needs a female tree and bees in order to grow fruits, citrus and orange will not give you fruits but something very bitter and non edible ’cause it needs crossbreeding / mounting (maybe k-lime will work). pineapple wont give you fruits either- it’ll grow but the climate is very sensitive for it and in my country they inject hormones to it in order to give fruits- and it needs approx 2 years for 1 fruit!

tomatoes work wonderful but also need a lot of light and humidity.
I grow celery, tomatoes, red peppers and green onions in my balcony and it’s all from leftovers.try your local fruits or veggies. it’s very exciting to see it happen (and makes you humble when seeing the huge amounts in the shops)

Strawberries

1. Remove seeds from strawberry with a toothpick.

2. Rinse the seeds off so no fruit is left on them then let them dry off completely.

3. Fill a container almost all the way with all-purpose or seed-starting soil and flick the seeds into it.

4. Cover seeds with ¼ inch of soil.

5. Spray water on seeds, repeat every other day

6. Leave seeds in sunlight

7. Watch for seeds to sprout.

8. Transfer to soil once sprouts grow their third leaves

Raspberries

1. Remove seeds from strawberry with a toothpick or by mashing a raspberry through a strainer.

2. Rinse the seeds off so no fruit is left on them then let them dry off completely.

3. Fill a container almost all the way with all-purpose or seed-starting soil and flick the seeds into it.

4. Cover seeds with ¼ inch of soil.

5. Spray water on seeds, repeat every other day

6. Leave seeds in sunlight

7. Transfer to soil once sprouts grow their third leaves

Tomatoes

1. Slice tomato into thirds horizontally.

2. Take any of the thirds and place them in a cup or jar filled ¾ of the way with all-purpose soil.

3. Cover the last fourth with soil to cover the tomato.

4. Moisten soil considerably and leave in direct sunlight

5. Spray water on seeds, repeat every other day

6. Watch for seeds to sprout!

Citrus

1. Slice citrus in half and remove seeds.

2. Rinse seeds off but do not allow to dry

3. Fill a container ¾ of the way with all-purpose or seed-starting soil.

4. Rinse the seeds off so no fruit is left on them then let them dry off completely.

5. Fill a container ¾ of the way with all-purpose or seed-starting soil.

6. Leave seeds in a warm place (on a refrigerator or near a water heater)

7. Spray water on seeds, repeat every other day

8. Watch for seeds to sprout!

Avocado

1. Slice an avocado in half and remove the seed.

2. Rinse the seed off and allow to dry.

3. Poke toothpicks in 3 sides of the seed.

4. Place seed in a glass of water, relying on the toothpicks to hold it up so that only the bottom quarter of the seed is in the water (pointed end should be facing up out of the water). Change water once a week

5. Roots should form in about 2-3 weeks.

6. Transfer to Soil once roots reach about 2-3 inches

Pineapple

1. Slice the crown of a pineapple off so that there is as little fruit attached as possible.

2. Pluck the leaves off so that about 5 inches of the crown is bare.

3. Leave crown in a sunny spot to dry for 2-7 days

4. Place seed in a glass of water, relying on the toothpicks to hold it up so that only the bottom quarter of the seed is in the water (pointed end should be facing up out of the water). Change water once a week

5. Roots should form in about 2-3 weeks.# Transfer to Soil once roots reach about 2-3 inches