Attempting to grow some Cherry from seed

I've wanted to get hold of a cherry tree for ages, I heard there was a place in beau-bassin that has cherry trees, but I've not yet seen it. I saw some cherry on sale at the supermarket and decided to give them a try, to grow some cherry from seed.






I did a basic test to check valid seeds
Basically floating seed = bad seed, sinking seeds = good seeds.



Cracking the "bad" seeds to check anyway
I decided to give the "bad" seeds a go, not so much to check on it, but more to get some practice before trying to open the valid seeds.

In this method I used the seed wrapped in a cloth and hit it with a hammer, until I heard a cracking noise. 1~3 hits gets the job done. But the seeds were not viable as expected, they were all shrivelled up.







Ok time to give the valid seeds a go!
Took a batch of six seeds by six seeds.



First attempt was a mess, I used the same method as for the "bad" seeds, wrapping the seed in cloth and hitting.
End result : The seed was crushed.
For the second and third seed I changed my method and was rewarded with two undamaged seed :D





The method that worked for me was surprisingly pretty simple.
Hitting the middle of the seed along the crack gave much better result and not damage to the seed :D







And here is the finished batch, 5 bad seeds and several valid seed just waiting to be planted!




Part II here ( where I sow the cherry seeds )