Learning how to plant orange seeds is very basic. It is as elementary as taking seeds from a ripe orange and directly putting them in a sterilized seed sprouting mix (about •½ inch deep). Although it is easy to grow oranges, you may need to wait for a long time before it can mature and produce fruit. Many growers are even surprised by the unusual characteristics of orange seeds.

Another way to plant orange seeds is to initially put them inside a plastic bag and place them inside the fridge at 1 to 2 degrees C for 30 days prior to planting. Refrigerating the seeds can help them germinate at a faster rate as compared to directly planting them but either of the two can make the seeds sprout.

Next, keep the mixture moist. However, it should not be wet and it should be in a warm spot. An ideal way is it to place them on top of a heat generating machine. After doing so, you can transplant the seeds into slightly bigger receptacles as they grow. Through regular watering, ample amounts of sunlight, protection from pests and the cold as well as nutrition can guarantee growers with a 3 ft. sapling in a span of one year.

A bushy orange tree will already be 8 foot by 8 foot after one year. This is actually good considering that it would still take 7 to 15 years before they reach fruit-bearing age. Add the fact that this also depends on the orange variety you have.

For this reason, it can be interesting to plant orange seeds, especially since long term experimentation can result to a beautiful indoor foliage plant that give off a very pleasant fragrance. It may also come as a surprise to growers when you see three sprouts in just one seed. Similar to most citrus seeds, orange seeds can produce so-called "nucellar" seedlings. The three seedlings are, in fact, clones of the actual parent tree (rather than being genetic in origin). Amongst the three, two of them are fast growing and they may eventually turn into trees very much identical to the original tree which they came from. However, the center sprout is usually the weaker and the genetically different one which needs to be removed.

After you plant orange seeds, they'll soon turn into trees producing flowers and then fruits, particularly when they've featured a proper number of nodes. For node development, aside from plant age, a correct combination of warmth and light is necessary.

For most growers, fruit production is not their primary goal. This is since learning how to plant orange seeds cannot guarantee good tasting fruits from seed grown trees. Many find it more thrilling to experiment on these trees and have long-lived beautiful indoor plants.