Has anyone ever grown a tree from seed w/ success?

right now I have a peach tree that came up volunteer from a pit a few years ago. The problem for the most part is that the really good fruit trees are hybrids that are grafted onto sturdier root stock. If you do get a tree to grow, it will be weaker and more subject to disease. Also sometimes hybrids do not grow true from seeds.

I have been pretty lucky with growing fruit trees from seed. I tried a date palm seed and I now have a tree about 6 feet tall but not bearing yet. I'm in a warm climate so I don't have to contend with frost just heavy rain, I lost my pecan tree grown from seed like that. I have mango, otahiti apples(dark red and pear shaped with a sweet white inside) tangerine, grapefruit, garden cherry, custard apple(pink, round with large black seeds in a custard-like medium). A hurricane killed my Avocado, all I had left was a 3 inch stump. My lime tree is now bearing for the 3rd time, I also have coconut and the Mexican Lime bears so much it's disgusting. They are huge, the size of a grapefruit or bigger sometimes, just sour with very little flavour, not like regular limes or lemons that have a distinct flavour. All this is in my back yard and I keep trying to find space to plant a nutmeg tree that a friend gave me. Not having any luck so far!

trees like apple trees are grown from grafts because, if you grow one from a seed - it won't be the same kind of apple tree you thought you planted - genetics... if you want a type of tree to grow a certain kind of fruit - get one at a store, because then its grafted to be that kind of tree

I haven't done so intentionally. There were lots of seeds from the maple trees around here that took root and grew in my yard and my flower bed. Unfortunately, most were near the house and I didn't want the roots to hurt my foundation so I pulled them out. They grow pretty fast!

we have many oaks and that means acorns which root anywhere they can find a little dirt. But I would guess you didn't mean this what you really wanted to know was if we had grown a tree from a seed we planted on purpose. The only one is a avacado which grew hugh in the the house.

There have been a lot of times that I've attempted to grow fruit bearing trees from seeds, but I've never been successful. I will see that we will get a seedling, but most of those don't tend to make it through our winters. I don't think that there is any harm at all in trying to make it work, but I wouldn't be terribly disappointed if your experiment ended up being a failure. Most of us don't live in environments where this would be successful.

hi 3SnuggleBunnies yes I grew an avocado tree from the pit, and just as it'was a bout four or five feet tall, someone actually dug it up in the middle of the night and went off with it. We called the police but what cou ld they do? the culprit would have been long gone as it happened when we were all asleep. I also grew an orange tree from an orange seed and we had if for years in our house on the South Dakota farm but alas it never bore fruit.