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Apple Tree From Seed
hob wrote: "Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message ... "sherwindu" wrote in message Kay Lancaster wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:38:12 -0600, sherwindu wrote: Why put all this effort into an apple tree that will produce lousy tasting apples. You're sure about that? cv Delicious was a chance seedling (and they're Naturally, only the successful chance seedlings were passed down through the years. I think that many chance seedlings produce fruit that is not only edible but quite good. Each year we visit a lot of chance seedling trees and eat and harvest the fruit. If we can beat the birds to them, most are good to very good Good is a relative term. How do they compare with a known heritage or well engineered apple like a Honeycrisp? and those that aren't are fine for cooking. These trees grow along a very quiet country road and we are sure have grown from apple cores thrown from passing cars. There must be at least 100 of these trees and we watch and check with interest each year. Are you saying that natural selection through the history of the apple has led to a fruit that is desired by birds/animals, and a more desirable apple for the propagation vector to eat spreads the seed better than apples that are bitter and tasteless? There are a lot of vegetables and fruit that pigs eat but I wouldn't find them tasty. You can't compare a bird's taste buds to a human. Sometimes, they will eat an apple just to get the moisture out of it. Johnny Appleseed spread a lot of seeds in his lifetime, but most of them produced apples that were not very tasty, and were used instead for cider or mash to feed the animals. In those days, for most pioneers it was a question of survival, not enhancing their palette. Sherwin D. Who woulda thunk... |
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