Hello friend, 4 to 7 years to hang fruit Chelsea seedlings need to accumulate nutrients as they grow into large trees. The general answer to the question of how many years does a Chelsea seedling bear fruit is four years, usually the earliest you can have a tree that is four years old is when you can start to bear fruit, and the latest you can reach is a tree that is seven years old. However, it is rare to produce fruit after more than seven years, and most of them are trees that have lost the ability to bear fruit.