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How do you plant an apple tree?

If I plant a small crab apple picked from a tree, will it grow into the same tree?

  • I was just wondering if it had to be a grafted tree to turn out to be the same beautiful blooming tree.

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    Apples don't breed true from seed. It will have DNA from the "mother" tree (the tree that grew the fruit), and the "father" tree (the tree whose pollen fertilized the flower on the mother tree...this process happens through bees working the flowers of different trees). The resulting sapling will have traits from both trees, and will be similar, but not exactly the same kind of tree. Yes, apple trees, and crabapple trees, when sold as particulat varieties, are grown by grafting from an existing tree to get an exact genetic copy. However - don't let the gentic variation stop you from growing your own tree from seed. It will be a beautiful flowering crab of some sort, and will be satisfying to grow yourself.

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Take the seeds out and dry them then plant them and they will grow. It will be a very slow process and take years to get to a decent size tree.

Larry E

well, once apple wroughts seeds will grow into a tree some 20 ys later or some period of time like that.

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