This is the way. Lol.
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It’s so true! 
More seriously, you can just plant them in the ground and be okay with some of them taking two years to sprout. I did that with some pits from four delicious plums I bought at a grocery store. They were the best plums I’d ever eaten, so I planted them, and if the pits take longer to sprout than I want, oh well – hopefully they’ll grow and give me amazing plums eventually. 
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Wanted to touch back here about the double dormancy and what I mean about your potential for possible rewards
via what I fondly refer to as ‘Peripheral Seed Neurosis’.
I received another trove of various Prunus (all plums) from Ken via Oikos last season (as I think I mentioned above). I’m kind of always working with his plums. I continue to have in mind various plum thicket corridor edges here. They get caged and mulched but they don’t get additional water…at all. Given our propensities for droughty summers amidst a fire ecology, I know I will lose many. But the work is worth it (I think 
) so I need back ups. Anywho…
So last season’s dormancy break was a wee poor. And Ken and I got to talking about Prunus at large and their sneaky capacity to stubbornly insist on double dormancy. I did the standard cajoling over a month or so of placing the seeds back in the fridge and back to room temp again. After awhile one can deduce when it is time to
drop the circus. I did. The seeds sat
in my dark cool seed cave all season into Fall. Then in early
January I tossed them back in my seed fridge for over 120 days. Just took the various 7 seed bags out - Mirabelle,
Ecos Beach, Wild goose, Blue sloe, Dunbar, and Ultramarine. - about 4 to 5 days ago. Sprinkled in some droplets of water - very dry peat by this time hanging out in a bag. And, voilá, the magic has begun…
So far the Dunbar (insititia var. syriaca), Mirabelle (maritima x americana), and Ultramarine (maritima var. Island ultramarine) have begun breaking.
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