

Step 1: Materials needed

 You will need:
An apple
Paper towel
plastic bag
Later On:
Grafting tape or Cling film
Grafting Wax or Masking tape

I wanted made it
Seems easy enough I want a McAntoish apple
<p>&quot;Common knowledge&quot; is not always right. It is possible that an apple seedling will produce excellent fruit, but it may not be that likely. It depends on a lot of factors, most important of which would be the two parent trees. If one of the parents was a crab apple, you probably won't get fruit that you will want to eat. That said, I doubt that most apples today are cross pollinated with crab apples (I rarely even see a crab apple tree). Many people also say you won't get fruit for 8-10 years from an apple seedling - this too is in fact a myth. I have seen seedlings fruit after 3 years - at that point you can decide if you want to keep it, or graft a known variety onto your tree. But if you don't feel like taking a gamble, just go graft a known variety onto your seedling. That said, I would't graft anything onto a seedling tree, better to go get a proper dwarfting rootstock to graft with (M111 for big tree with deep strong roots, or M7 for a smaller tree that might blow over one day, or M9 for a tiny tree that requires staking for its whole life). If you know someone that grows apple trees, you can probably get a free rootstock from them, or order them. In eastern PA you can buy rootstocks for $1 (http://byfg.org/)</p>
I also grow some apple trees from seed(red delicious). They are about one year. But now I don't know what to do next because nobody grow apple here, so have no apple scion wood to graft onto my tree.
<p>HELP!!! A few weeks ago I found a sprouted apple seed that I bought at a grocery store. Put it in a damp paper towel, then in a ziploc. Blew in the bag and then forgot about it. I looked at it today and it actually is growing. Removed it from the bag and towel due to what looked like mold growing on the towel. Trimmed off the mold. Seed, and sprout are unharmed. Transplanted it into a small terracotta pot with potting soil and coffee grounds. The sprout is about 2.5&quot; tall. I don't know how to care for it from here. </p>
<p>You can either go plant it outside now, or leave it in a pot until next spring to plant outside. You want to make sure the trunk is nice and straight, stake it if you need to.</p>
<p>When is the best time to plant apples?</p>
<p>Most plant in the early spring, but some say that Fall is actually the best time to plant an apple tree, they say there is plenty of root growth with a fall planting which prepares the tree to do better come spring. I'm not completely sure who is right. I would think a very harsh winter could harm a young newly planted tree with little to no root system.</p>
<p>So i have this wonderful apple tree, i live in northern alberta, Canada. I have never seen a apple tree produce sweet and extremely large sized apples, as mine does. I recently have moved to a rural property, and we still own our home in the city. i wanted to have a company move the tree to our new property but it is very close to the fence line and the tree spade they would have to use is not as large as it should be, meaning a large portion of the root system would likely be cut off. The tree spade fellow says the tree only has a 50/50 chance of making it. It is the perfect season for moving the tree as it has produced it fruit for the year and has gone dormant for the winter. My idea was this instead of risking the tree's life (it is a really beautiful tree) could i not take the seeds from the fruit and grow the seedlings until they are large enough to graft a branch from the original tree? Would the fruit produced not be the same? Idea's, thoughts?</p>
<p>I dont know about grafting but i have seeds from granny smith and red delicious apples and ive grown trees from both that bear excellent fruit the need for grafting i understand is to change the flavor of the fruit i don't understand why you would do that as long as you grow 2 trees for pollinations you should never have a problem with an apple tree or any other fruit tree from blooming and bearing fruit ... but to each his own !</p>
<p>so what IS scion wood exactly? is it the small branch above the fruit? or is it the stem before it's dried out to sell? im really confused on that part. also is there a way to NOT graft the saplings? cause im thinking on Golden Del apples and Braeburn apples. maybe fuji.</p>
<p>See my comment to Geoff15 above for more, but basically, scion wood should be from the previous season's growth. Pencil thickness is best. Harvest before the buds start swelling (mid Jan is when we do it in Southern California). Store the scion wood in zip lock bags (cut to lengths to fit the bag, and later you'll cut into lengths of only one or two buds to make the grafts). Spritz a little water in the bag for moisture. Once the buds start swelling, a month or so later, make your grafts.</p>
Apples do not grow true to seed. In other words, if you plant a Fuji apple seed, you will get a different apple. This is how many of the best apple varieties first started. Using scion wood and grafting means you will get the variety that the scion came from.<br>Hope that helped!
Views from someone who had an internship breeding apples: <br> <br>1. There is fundamental misunderstanding, in this article, of how apples are bred and grown. <br>2. Red Delicious originated from one seed, Honeycrisp originated from one seed, all varieties of apples you find in the store, originate from one seed. They are then cloned through grafting. Planting a Honeycrisp seed will not produce a Honey Crisp apple. Only by grafting (cloning) a piece of a Honeycrisp tree, can you get another Honeycrisp apple tree. Planting apple seeds will produce new, random, and unique apple trees.* <br>3. A good reason to graft your apple tree would be to put it on dwarf root stock. These are specially bred trees, grown for their roots. These roots are hardy, will produce shorter trees, and produce fruit earlier. This root stock is available online if you are interested. <br>4. Grafting one apple seedling onto another apple seedling is pointless. All you are doing is swapping one mystery apple tree onto the roots of another mystery apple tree. The characteristic of apple that the tree will produce is determined by genetics of the top graft, which is determined at the time of pollination of the seed. The act of grafting doesn't change the grafts genetics. <br>5. While your understanding of this is incorrect, your skill in grafting is excellent. Apple root stock is cheap, and grafting material is usually free if you know someone who has a tree. This is a good way to plant an orchard for almost free. <br>* I spent an internship working at the UofMinnesota apple breeding center (the same one that produced Honeycrisp), we would start by making crosses, then plant over a thousand seeds, we would then let nature kill most (test for cold hardiness and disease), the survivors would be grafted onto root stock. We would go through the fruit that these seeds produced, most where discarded because of small fruit size, poor fruit quality, bad flavor, ect. But a very few would stand out and be the next big apple for the market. <br>
<p>oh no!</p><p>I already grew my apple seedlings into little saplings. I have no hope of getting a scion as I live in india - a land where apples dont grow. And even if they do grow apples way up north - I could never get my hands on a scion. What can I do?</p><p>I want nice apples so that I can make pies. I dont want to make a business out of my trees. please mr Bradley. give me your advice</p>
<p>Halima Sadia Sayed, you might order a grafted apple tree bred for hot climates from Kuffel Creek Nursery. They routinely send grafted apples to Africa (I know, because I was one of the volunteers to help graft 3000 trees). It is very remotely possible that one of your seedlings will becomes a decent tree. I've heard the odds are 1 in only 17,000 seedlings make good eating apples. Once your Kuffel Creek tree(s) arrive and grow a season or two (be sure to order his CD e-book on how to grow them), then you can obtain scion wood from these trees to graft onto your seedling trees to have more trees, or give them to friends.</p>
ok then so does all the crossbreeding mess with the seeds germination rates, anyhow id very much like to know. im not into grafting but am into cuttings. <br> <br>i don't know if anyone else noticed but i have noticed that alot of store bought <br>apples and stuff like that their seeds do not grow they grow well in the fruit in all <br>but are useless.
The apples aren't actually being crossbred per se. The word crossbred has several different definitions in botany, it can get confusing at times. All the apples are Malus domestica so all the breeding that is taking place is within the species, just as it would in nature. The reason for low germination is different. <br> <br>The author was kind of on the right track with germinating the seeds in the fridge. Certain plants, apples included, greatly benefit from a process called cold stratification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratification_(botany) . That is, they undergo winter like conditions for sometimes months before germination. That should greatly increase seed germination. <br> <br>
<p>I grew many little apple trees from seed. I live in India. There is no possibility for me to get a scion from any apple tree around where I live. Can I get a good produce if i graft the apple saplings using cuttings from other ones I grew? Will that help?</p><p>Help </p>
<p>when I read this, they said to have scion wood from apple what I want, <br>is it possible to grow 2 kind different apples from seed and grafting between them?</p>
<p>You've not misunderstood. The benefit you get from doing it this way is that you get a larger tree, which may or may not be desirable. The other &quot;fast&quot; growing rootstocks, aren't fast growing, they reach fruit bearing age earlier. If you want a full sized tree, I would suggest buying Antonovka seeds as they are true to seed and produce an edible apple if you don't want to graft them, but they can still be grafted.</p><p>Also, you can buy apples in late spring such as Fuji that have seeds that are likely already germinated. That's what I did last year as well as the antonovka.</p>

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