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I was thinking about this, while potting plants, this week. I really wanted an apple tree, and I wanted one *now*, so I just went and cut open an organic apple and planted three seeds in a flower pot.

Totally stupid, right, as I could wait and go buy an apple tree on some other weekend and quickly see results. My MIL thought it was retarded. She's like, but you won't have a real tree for years!

But I don't mind waiting 10 years for a tree. I just really wanted to plant it, immediately, so that I can cross "plant apple tree" off my mental To Do list.

Just have to water and feed it, for a decade or so. No problem.

I think this is typical Crazy Inventor personality, where you'll suddenly need to _do something_ and you just go for it and totally sperg out. 😂 I always do that with gardening, cooking, relationships, programming, etc. All in or wander off.

Niel Liesmons 7mo ago

Our apple trees I've grown from seed will give their first fruit this year.

5 years in.

#plantbreeding

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Silberengel 7mo ago

Yeah, it seems like a crazy idea, right, but we have a chestnut tree and an apple tree nearly two-stories high, in the backyard, because my BIL dug seeds in the ground 20 years ago, on a whim. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

Fruit trees can grow from seeds. Who knew?

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 7mo ago

they grow just fine, but you get better amounts and size of fruit if you graft them onto a stronger rootstock, you can do that later anyhow

teh other thing is a lot of commercial apples are hybrids and their seeds don't produce consistent variety features.

Niel Liesmons 7mo ago

There seems to be a big parallel in the bible of this whole process btw.

Growing from seed.

Good and bad fruit.

Jesus coming in grafting the good on the bad.

https://youtu.be/nW6yNSIN3-A

Silberengel 7mo ago

Yeah, my MIL already explained it all to me. She grew up on a farm with an orchard.

Niel Liesmons 7mo ago

I've sown "Giants from Kazachstan" that grow quite true to seed.

Curious for these guys' size.

They reach timber size in Kazachstan, lol.

Good Apples + Good Timber = Me curious :eyes: