Hey, I'm growing an apple tree! :D

[Dangerously Amused]

I was eating an apple the other day and noticed that four of the seeds had already sprouted inside the core, one of them quite vigorously so with a tiny root already. I don't remember ever seeing sprouted apple seeds before. So for kicks I put the seeds in a pot with a houseplant, in about an inch of soil. Today I noticed that one of the sprouts has broken the ground. How cool!

Go little apple tree!

:bounce:

[Lyric]

1. Awesome!

Don't be surprised if the fruit that it eventually bears is nothing like the fruit it came from, though. These days, apple tree growing is a complicated business involving the grafting of one type of tree onto the trunk/branches of another, and you never know what fruit the seeds will grow up to bear.

Still, apple trees rock!

:hi:

[Dangerously Amused]

6. Yep, you are 'zackly right.

After I planted the sprouts I read up on growing the trees from seeds like this. It might not even bear fruit at all... but it will be fun to see what happens!

:hi:

[alphafemale]

20. Yeah. Apple trees are pretty little trees.

Even if they are sterile or produce only crabapples. And you can still use crabapples for pies and things if you sweeten them.

[Dangerously Amused]

33. I know! And my apple trees has TWO teeny leaves already!

:woohoo:

:proudtreemama:

[rcrush]

2. I'm doing that with some 'other' seeds I found.

mmmm apples

[Dangerously Amused]

7. I'll trade you! Apples for... eh, whatever you've got growing.

Such a deal, eh? :7

[old mark]

3. What kind of apple ws it?

it's ususlly hard to grow them from seeds.
It would be great if you havethe space outdoors to plant it when it's maybe a foot tall or so....

Good luck - I love fruit trees.


mark

[Dangerously Amused]

8. It was a Fuji, and a really sweet one too.

I was really surprised to see the sprouts right there. Like you said (after I did a little research), it sounds like it is difficult and time-consuming to even get the seeds to sprout. I will definitely try to keep them going outdoors when they are big enough to be out on their own.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Dangerously Amused!

How cool is that???

Good luck!

You might want to talk to a local nursery person about how to maximize your chances!

And let's have a pic when it gets bigger!

I'm growing an avocado in my kitchen's window sill...lots of roots but not much in the way of branches yet...

I'm hoping!

:bounce:

[Dangerously Amused]

9. Good idea, I think I will talk to my local nursery guy. He is all kinds of helpful.

And good luck with your avocado! I never was able to get an avocado past the rooting stage. :(

[MrScorpio]

5. I make a killer apple tart

Look me up when you're ready

[Dangerously Amused]

10. I will!

If I can bear to part with the little applets. :cry:

[MrScorpio]

16. They will be SACRIFICED for the greater good

Anointed with cinnamon and sugar

[Dangerously Amused]

18. Cinnamon and sugar... mmmmmm....

Okay, okay! They're all yours!

:9

[Lethe]

24. you shouldn't reveal your secrets so easily

it actually is possible to make a killer apple tart, because if you grind up a half cup of apple seeds and mix it in your recipe, you will kill someone

(apple seeds contain a form of cyanide)

[Dangerously Amused]

25. OMG! Is that true?! I have been eating the apple seeds (and the entire core) for a long time!!!

:scared:

[Ptah]

11. Don't sit under the apple tree

Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree



I wrote mother.
I wrote my father.
And now I'm writing you too.

I sure of mother.
I sure of father.
And now I want to be sure (very very sure)
of you.

Don't sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
NO! NO! NO!
Don't sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
Till I come marching home.

Don't go walking down lovers lane
With anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
NO! NO! NO!
Don't go walking down lovers lane
With anyone else but me
Till I come marching home.

I just got word from the girl
Who heard from the girl next door to me.
The Boy she met just loves to pet
And it fits you to a tee.


Soo.
Don't sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
Till I come marching home.


Don't sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
NO! NO! NO!
Don't sit under the apple tree
With anyone else but me
Not till you see me come marching home.
(home home home home sweet home)

Don't go walking down lovers lane
With anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me
NO! NO! NO!
Don't go walking down lovers lane
With anyone else but me
Till I come marching home.

[Dangerously Amused]

13. Only you!

:loveya:

[sarge43]

12. Dangerous, if your baby grows up and wants to make more

apple trees, it'll need a mate. Apple trees need to cross pollinate to produce fruit. So, if your baby winds up outside, think at least one more.

[Dangerously Amused]

15. Oh. Well, that's good to know.

Mate needed: Sweet Fuji ISO spicy Gala for good times, possibly LTR; fertility required, age unimportant.

Seriously though, I will start looking for a suitable mate. Thanks!

:hi:

[Ptah]

29. Be careful with that internet ad. You never know what those trees are really like.

Be careful out there

[Dangerously Amused]

34. Those trees didn't scare me near as much as the flying monkeys.

:scared:

[vixengrl]

14. It's cool to be a produce-producer. (even if it could be awhile.)

It'll be a few years before Apple Jr. makes anything like fruit. Although I've found fig trees are precocious. They yield young and promiscuously.


My house started out with a couple grapevines (Now six plants, very entertwined along my back-fence, yielding really excellent grapes. My back row of sweet green grapes takes on a blush by October, and the big bunches take on a half-fermented flavor. I mean to read up on homebrewing based on our yield--more than two people can eat or even give away to friends.) Add a couple figtrees. (Now add a third, sitting in a tub of soil in my rec room.) And tomatoes and basil every summer--there is nothing like "rooting" for a little plant, and getting back something, someday. It feels a little like parenting to see them grow.

[Dangerously Amused]

17. Oh yeah, I looove my garden.

I get excited like a little kid when things really start popping out. And I have been thinking of adding fruit trees anyway since we always had them around when I was a kid. Fig trees and grapes... hmmm, I will have to look into those, too. I like them both.

Do you have a problem with birds (or other critters) taking your grapes?

[vixengrl]

19. Beetles--can be an issue. When we once made the mistake

of letting the vines spread out (stringing up the tendrils like laundry on clotheslines we rigged up--given space enough, grapevines will swamp an entire backyard) we had beetles everywhere. But they went for the leaf, not the crop. We still had a lot of grapes, but I've found trimming the plants back, I still have a great yield, and less bugs--you could say "less is more". Birds are never a problem, not like they are with blackberries or mulberries. (My experience with which is, from the blackberries temporarily growing in my parents' backyard--congregations of birds, and eructations of birdshite upon cars nearby. Blue-purple pesistent bird shite.) Grapes are hardly a problem. In any sense. All they ever want is water, and they produce amazingly. They seem to resist pests.

[Dangerously Amused]

26. Okay, you convinced me!

I have a nice fence in the back yard, I'm gonna plant some grapes along that this summer. Thanks!

:hi:

[Tikki]

21. My friend (renter, neighbor) and I planted a....

lemon tree in our shared yard on January 20th...we did this in honor of our great new President Barack Obama...
We said...if anyone can turn this lemon world around it would be President Obama...turning lemons into
sweet lemonade.


Tikki
...the little tree already has two little lemons growing...

[Dangerously Amused]

27. Aw, cool story! Go little lemon tree!

[applegrove]

22. That could be a fad. Remember growing (or trying to) avocado trees

from seed? I was the 1970s.

[Dangerously Amused]

28. I do remember everybody in my family trying to grow avocado from the pit in the 70s.

The suspended by toothpicks in water thing. Mine never got more than a few stringy roots. :/

[applegrove]

31. In my family they never got bigger than a bit of mold on the avocado seed suspended

by toothpicks.

[Deja Q]

23. Be careful. Apple might sue you for making illegal clones.

(I was going to make a photoshop, but stumbling on this just proves some people...)

[Ivan Sputnik]

30. Be careful what you wish for

I have an apple tree in my backyard that dropped hundreds of apples all over the lawn last year. Maybe about 5 percent of them were edible. The others looked tumorous. They all had to be picked up before any lawn mowing could occur. Still, people think it's cool when you tell them you have an apple tree in your yard.

[Dangerously Amused]

32. Too bad about the mass apple ground assault on your lawn.

I wonder if the icky ones couldn't be used for something else? I dunno, like cider, or maybe a farmer's horses would appreciate them, or something.