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Sitka Deer;
Good afternoon sir, I hope that the day behaved thus far for you and your fine family.

Thanks for the interesting tidbit about the forest of wild apples, I'd not heard of that before but it's not surprising.

Somewhere I read something to the effect that most if not all of Johnny Appleseed's orchards were cider apples. If I'm not wrong, a whole lot of the varieties were lost as well when Prohibition came in as there was a concerted effort to eradicate said cider trees because of the demon alcohol they produced.

We had a volunteer tree in our yard that produced the nicest apples, which unfortunately had to be taken out when we did a major renovation.

Now you could ask me if I grabbed some buds from it and grafted them onto the Granny Smith tree in the yard, you know like someone with even a minute amount of forethought would have done.

I'd appreciate it if you didn't ask me that Sitka, but you could.....

When we had horses still and I used to roam the mountain behind the house via Appaloosa power, there were a few volunteer trees that we found over the years that she loved to stop at.

Honestly looking back at it now, she likely smelled them and steered me over towards the wild apples and since I was hunting mostly and not paying attention always to where she wandered.

Interestingly apples, apricots and plums are the only wild or maybe feral fruit trees we find in the hills, never a cherry, peach or nectarine tree.

Most of the apple trees in the orchards here are grafted root stock which I'm told are more disease resistant, but I'm not sure if that's the case or not.

Thanks again and all the best to you all.

Dwayne

Cherry trees are easy

Somewhere I read something to the effect that most if not all of Johnny Appleseed's orchards were cider apples. If I'm not wrong, a whole lot of the varieties were lost as well when Prohibition came in as there was a concerted effort to eradicate said cider trees because of the demon alcohol they produced.

Are there any apples that grow true to seed?

How to Grow an Apple Tree From Seed
Apples do not reproduce true to type, meaning that the tree grown from a specific variety of seed will produce apples almost certain to be different than the parent. You can have fun and experiment, but don't expect to have the same fruit. Also, almost all varieties are unable to pollinate themselves

The apple tree thread has me wondering.. Anyone raise fruit trees from seed?

You don’t have that much time.

My neighbor which was a cheery grower, grew his cherrie trees from a test tube. The only thing I remember was he cracked open the pit. He developed his on varieties.

I planted around 200 seeds in starter pots this Spring. I got 5 to sprout and transplanted them in the raised bed for a few years. I have one tree that came from a seed I planted that is now 20 feet or so tall. It is surrounded by other apple trees yet that one has never blossomed or produced any fruit. The seed came from a fruit basket someone gave us when my Dad was in the hospital after a heart attack. If it weren't for that, the tree would have been cut down and replaced years ago.