"DavidPT40" wrote in message
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I was eating some apples the other day and I saved the seeds. I planted
them in my garden a few days ago. How long till my apple plants grow? I
really want some apples soon, hope my apple bushes sprout in early
January.
I fertilized them with some vinegar and put some snow around them to keep
them from getting too hot.

Thanks

It's a little hard to consider your post seriously unless you have never
attempted to grow anything before. First, apples grow on trees, not bushes,
and in most cases require at least two different kinds to produce fruit and
then only after the trees have matured to a certain degree. Planted seeds
obtained from apples can eventually develop into a tree but they will not
produce the exact same type of apple that you ate and they are unlikely to
be particularly desirable as an edible fruit.

I wouldn't look too hard for sprouts in January. Seeds planted in the garden
now may not sprout for many months, if at all, and may be easily overlooked
as a weed when they do. Would have been better to start them indoors now and
transfer to the garden once they had sprouted into a recognizable seedling.
Vinegar is not a fertilizer and depending on how much you applied, could
very well have eliminated any possibility of seed germination. Seeds need no
fertilizer to germinate - everything they need for growth is contained
within the seed to be utilized once it germinates. And I wouldn't worry too
much about piling snow around them to keep them from getting "too hot" - at
this time of year in north America that is hardly a concern.

If you want apples to eat and soon, you'd be much better off waiting until
apple trees are offered in area nurseries, typically in late winter or early
spring, and purchase one with either multiple cultivars grafted to it or two
separate trees of different kinds for cross pollination. Although it is
generally not recommended that you allow a newly planted tree to fruit its
first season, you could potentially have apples in the fall if you planted
one this spring.

pam - gardengal