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can I grow grape vines from grape seeds?

i am trying to extract seeds from some vegetables and fruits for my kitchen garden. Which ones do u recommend for beginner... like me. What is the method of preparing seeds if I like the fruit?

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1. Grapes can be grown from seeds, but they may or may not produce the same grape you took the seeds from. If the plant the seed came from was pollinated by the breeze from another type of grape, then you will have a hybrid and it won't produce the same grape. Dry the seeds for a couple of weeks and then plant them about 1/2 inch in the soil.
2. yes, you can, but you may well not get the same sort of grape or any other fruit. 1) The flower that the grape came from may have been pollinated from a different type of grape, so you would get a hybrid 2)Many fruit trees have the fruiting part of the tree grafted onto a different rootstock. The rootstock can overcome the graft and produce something different to what you thought youwere getting. Some varieties are self-pollinating and some need another variety for pollination to occur. To get exactly the same variety, you would have to use cuttings - vegetative propogation produces the same plant. Sexual propogation produces an amalgam of both parents. good luck with it.
3. Not worth the effort. Mainly if it is not grafted to wild stock , all sorts of disease will plague you. I am not kiddin'. also if you like something that you have eaten just take some of the seeds and dry them. Plant and give a try.