Silberengel @Silberengel - 2d
Yeah, it seems like a crazy idea, right, but we have a chestnut tree and an apple tree nearly two-stories high, in the backyard, because my BIL dug seeds in the ground 20 years ago, on a whim. 😂🤷🏻♀️ Fruit trees can grow from seeds. Who knew?
mleku @mleku - 2d
they grow just fine, but you get better amounts and size of fruit if you graft them onto a stronger rootstock, you can do that later anyhow teh other thing is a lot of commercial apples are hybrids and their seeds don't produce consistent variety features.
Yeah, my MIL already explained it all to me. She grew up on a farm with an orchard.
well, small apples are ok, especially to make pies and desserts and preserves and salads and such and there's nothing stopping you from getting a good seedstock clone to graft a branch from your babies onto to give them a kickstart
