Planting apple trees from seed
 

Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has tried planting apple trees from seed?
What's a good time of year to plant? Do I plant on pots or plant directly
outside? I live in upstate New York.

On 9/25/05 12:22 PM, in article , "Big
Duke" wrote:

Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has tried planting apple trees from seed?
What's a good time of year to plant? Do I plant on pots or plant directly
outside? I live in upstate New York.


Here we go again!
Cheryl

In article ,
says...
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has tried planting apple trees from seed?
What's a good time of year to plant? Do I plant on pots or plant directly
outside? I live in upstate New York.




I think I smell a troll.

Bill

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In article ,
says...
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has tried planting apple trees from
seed?
What's a good time of year to plant? Do I plant on pots or plant
directly
outside? I live in upstate New York.




I think I smell a troll.

Bill
This is my first time visiting your group, but I get the feeling this was
posted before. If it was, is there someplace where I could read the
results? Duke

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In article ,
says...

Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has tried planting apple trees from
seed?
What's a good time of year to plant? Do I plant on pots or plant
directly
outside? I live in upstate New York.




I think I smell a troll.

Bill
This is my first time visiting your group, but I get the feeling this was
posted before. If it was, is there someplace where I could read the
results? Duke





There has been an ongoing discussion (argument) for about a week
regarding growing apples from seed. That discussion (argument) is just
now finally winding down.

Growing apples from seeds is terribly impractical if you are interested
in the fruit -- unless have a lot of space for *big* trees to grow, you
don't mind waiting 10 years for the tree to begin bearing, and you
realize the fruit will probably be awful. With pruning and grafting you
can replace all the branches with a good variety in just a couple of
more years, so it's not like the 10 years was a total waste, but if you
want an apple tree you are usually better off buying a named variety
grafted onto semi-dwarf rootstock. Buy 2 trees of different varieties
to pollenation unless there are flowering crabapples in your
neighborhood or maybe your next-door neighbor has an apple tree.

Best regards,
Bob

Yes, I think you must be a troll.

Sherwin D.

Big Duke wrote:

"Bill" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has tried planting apple trees from
seed?
What's a good time of year to plant? Do I plant on pots or plant
directly
outside? I live in upstate New York.




I think I smell a troll.

Bill
This is my first time visiting your group, but I get the feeling this was
posted before. If it was, is there someplace where I could read the
results? Duke