I found a row of about 10 now wild plum trees a number of years ago. At some time in the past there was a house there. Ive been picking those plums for a few years and decided to try and grow a few from seed. I took five of the plums and buried the whole plum 3-4 inches deep. That was July 2007. One made it and now I have a plum tree that's about 4 feet tall I will transplant in the next couple weeks. I dont know what kind it is other than purple with whitish flesh. Hopefully it will bear fruit in the next couple years AND maybe I'll get lucky and the plums will be good! For me, its worked out pretty well so far!

Hi Berger, you need to know the botanical or scientific name of the plant to identify accurately. Black cherry is generally the common name for Prunus serotina. Don't know what species "sweet black cherry" is? Perhaps you can check your listing on Amazon or ask the seller. Common names can be confusing, that's why I don't usually pay attention to a reference that doesn't include the scientific i.e. REAL name of the plant(s) they're talking about!

Thank you all for the info. I started some more yesterday and I may try the coffee filter and baggie later today. I try to start twice as many as I need and I just couldn't figure none of them coming up. I guess I can blame it on me really looking forward to trying them out this year :-) Hopefully it's not an issue with the entire packet and the ones I started yesterday will make. If not, there's always next year. Thanks again, Michelle

Tam, Black Cherry is OP so yes you can save seeds from it. ignore anyone who tells you the seeds were from a specialty catalog. The catalogs for commercial growers contain the same varieties that might be found elsewhere. And it also tells me a lot about that place that they were offering a PL Red Brandywine. I think those wrong varieties threads are long gone b'c it was so many years ago and it wouldn't have been much help to you anyway b'c since I did those many new varieties have appeared, and situations with specific seed sources also change and new seed companies have appeared in the meantime and a few of them are excellent. That is, one site was blasted for low germinating seeds and that situation was fixed. Another site was selling a large number of wrong varieties and it turned out that the person saving the seeds, etc., had a serious medical problem. So don't go backwards, best to go forward. Note, there's a current problem with Black Cherry seeds at Baker Creek. SOme lot numbers giving fruits true to form and other lot numbers giving something other than Black Cherry. If I had some extra seeds I'd send them to you, but I don't, and I do understand that your question is a much larger one in terms of the best places to get seeds. There are many many threads here where folks have lsited what's been best for them, and there are some listed that I simply can't agree with, so my own suggestion is to go with Tania's suggestions for seed sources b'c she's particular and is not going to list a company that she knows there have been problems with. Well, very few problems, but then...... LOL And there's NO WAY that I'm going to lsit companies to avoid for the same reason that person X loves tomato v ariety Y and person B HATES the same variety. In other words some folks are devotees of a site b'c their experience has been OK and others wouldn't buy seeds there at all. So one has to look at experiences folks have with this or that company over a longer time span. I've been psoting online about gardening and especially tomatoes since 1989 and always read/post at several such message sites so I and others who do the same do see feedback about companies and the seeds they offer as tow rong varieties, low germinating seeds, customer service, etc., when folks psot about that. Carolyn