He decided to write about something he didn't know anything about and ended up building a case on a fundamental error. It's a gamble for sure, but it's not the dismal odds we are often told. All results from anyone growing a number of seedlings has been pretty encouraging. All we need is for them to report what percentage are worth growing and eating. I know people with various numbers of seedling trees. Regarding an experiment, we can do the same experiment in small numbers. As home growers we don't have so many criteria to meet. I know people that hunt hedgerows for worthwhile apples The 1 in 1000's thing derives from the commercial breeding paradigm where the number of criteria an apple has to meet has become very high, so very few apples make the grade. Many good apples have also always come from hedgerows.
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It wasn't just seedlings planted to grow as seedlings, but seedlings were used as rootstocks then and often ended up overgrowing the top, or the top might die. He may not have understood at the time either just how many apples sprung from that chaos of seeding planting. his point was that almost all the apples from seed sucked and were good for only cider and it was only by sheer numbers that new varieties happened. He mistakenly picked up that idea and ran with it. It is very overstated and the entire chapter is wrapped around the mistaken idea that almost all apples from seed are not worth growing for anything but cider. I did re-read it and he states repeatedly that the odds are enormously against getting anything good to eat. Thanks 4 the encouragement! Keep it up please! We need 2 take this "do it anyway despite what u hear" approach in more avenues of r lives. R great grandparents didn't bring r ancestors into this world going 2 a store n buying a bag of apples. I'm 1 of those ppl.bound & determined 2 do it anyway because my daughter deserves 2 learn how 2 really feed herself & her future family. Only the serious rebels don't care what others r saying & r going 4 it anyway. We CAN grow r own trees, but the pioneers of r time r being totally discouraged online. Part of the problem is that we're raised in such a commercialized atmosphere that we don't know anything other than pre-packaged foods.which is ruining r overall health & quality of life.
#Apple tree seedlings plus#
I want 2 leave an even bigger orchard 4 r next generation (my daughter & nephews) plus teach the kids in r family 2 b self reliant in the process. " I only started that journey recently as my mom has a little orchard in her backyard.
Unfortunately, it's not in r vocabulary 2 "grow your own trees from seed. I'll check it out later :-) Americans r raised 2 go 2 the store & buy a bag of apples. Thanks 4 the positive vibes n video efforts. In short, I think more people should be growing fruit from seed and a little intention in selection of parents can probably go a long way toward skewing results in our favor. I hope to start getting fruit from those this year.
#Apple tree seedlings series#
If you want to know more about growing apples from seed intentionally to produce new varieties, I'm producing a youtube video series that follows my efforts and shows how I do everything. I have over 100 intentionally cross pollinated seedlings growing and more coming this year.
I named it BITE ME! for all the people that say it can't be done. My very first open pollinated apple seedling to fruit is quite promising and I happily ate all of them. For instance, my friend Freddy Menge has been growing seedlings and says that more of the apples he grows from seed are worth eating than not. The experience of many people disproves that notion though. Michael Pollan in particular has done a great disservice by blugeoning home the message in his book Botany of Desire that it is almost impossible to grow really good apples from seed. Most of what you read or hear about growing new varieties from seed is very negative. If these seeds were allowed to grow out and produce fruit instead of grafting them to another variety, each one would produce a unique new variety of apple, which may or may not be good and may or may not resemble the original parent. The article is really about growing apple root stock from seeds in order to graft on a variety that you like, such as pink lady, Wickson, etc. There are a lot of misconceptions and errors in this thread, and some good stuff too.
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