Silly question. The seeds in the middle of an apple core, can those be used to plant an apple tree?
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The seed may grow into an apple tree but it probably won't produce the same apple you got the seed from. If it does produce an apple, it will most likely resemble something like a crab-apple or an apple entirely different than what you expect.
Apple growers receive their apple trees from nurseries after they've been grafted...which is the process of combining two trees.this involves grafting the shoot and branches of an existing apple tree (called a scion) onto a new trunk with a developed root system (which is called a rootstock). So what you're getting is basically a "hybrid".
It's basically combining specific desirable traits to produce an apple that is tasty, appealing, can ship easily and has good cold storage qualities.
The next time you see an apple tree, you can see where they've grafted the two trees together (called a union).it's usually a "scar" that is located somewhere on the trunk.
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They can if they are not from a hybrid apple plant.
Yes they can. They will only give fruit in certain regions.
Yes, just like seeds in peaches and seeds in sunflowers! you just have to let them dry out and plant them next season! :0)-- toodles, allison
yes you can grow a tree with the seeds from a apple, if its a store bought apple there is a very good chance that it will not bare fruit. but you can try and will be years before you know.
fruit trees are not very expensive at lowes or home depot...
Yes, you can grow them but it will take a very very long time and the resulting apple tree may not have any resemblance to the apple that you ate!
Try this for fun: Chill your apple seeds for at least six weeks in a baggie of damp peat in the fridge. Then plant them on a sunny windowsill, in paper cups. Eventually you can throw them away, but if you are serious about transplanting them outside you will wait 6-10 years to get a serious crop of apples that you may well find to be worthless.
If you grow from good stock, properly cared for and pollinated, (not from the apple you bought at the grocery store) you should have a decent crop of quality apples in three to four years.
Most apples sold in the market are hybrids and not able to reproduce through seedlings. However, if you get an apple from an orchard, you can ask if its a hybrid or pure strain. Let the seed dry out for a month or two, then, in the spring, after all danger of frost is past, plant in the yard. OR, plant it in a peat disc and place it in a sunny window, cover with a 2 liter bottle with the top cut off, like it's own little green house. Move it outside when all danger of frost is past.
Yes, but it'll take forever. If you want to plant an apple tree, go to a nursery and buy a young tree.
Yup. I plant them in my flower pots around the plant already in the pot.for a little extra oompf. They grow. I never did get around to planting one of them outside, though....
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