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?
Our apple trees I've grown from seed will give their first fruit this year.
5 years in.
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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.
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.
Yeah, my MIL already explained it all to me. She grew up on a farm with an orchard.
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: