Q: I love cherries and would like to grow a cherry tree of my own in my backyard. Rather than buying one from a nursery (they can be quite expensive), can I plant the seeds from the cherries I eat?
A: Cherries are one of the best fruit trees, and it is possible to grow them from seed. Just note that it will be a long time before you can enjoy a bountiful crop – sometimes, up to ten years. As well as this, cherries grown from pits will not grow 'true to type', as points out Rebecca Sears of Ferry-Morse. This means that the cherries will likely taste differently than the original cherry the pit came from.
