I learned how to graft two years ago while in gardening school and I absolutely loved it. And ever since learning that you can graft apples and pears together, I’ve become obsessed with growing a tree that has both. If I ever get a house with a garden I will have so many frankensteins fruit trees. I’m so excited!
I have been grafting apples for about 10 years. I have never heard of apples and pears together. I do know you can graft plums, cherries, peaches, apricots, and almonds. These are all of the species Prunus and therefore are compatible.
I grew 17 apple seedlings, 15 pear seedlings, and 3 plum seedlings last year. Thanks to you. You truly have one of the best RUclips channels! I wish I could grow your favorite plums!
Oh woops ! I’ve been growing them indoors from seed; they’re very fragile… about 1” high, it’s summer right now, should I go and plant the baby plants and my germinated seeds in the ground, can they withstand the summer heat or does planting them in the shade help ? And they don’t need a fertilizer, just water ? Thanks ; )
@IyseHexxo-br8uo I gave all but a few away to homesteader friends. The last I spoke with all of them The trees are all still alive and doing well. Mine are doing good!
Just a quick note, apples that you get from the grocery store have more than likely already been stratified. After being washed and sorted, apples are stored in warehouses at or near freezing temps for as long as and sometimes more then two years. They are gased to put them to sleep. If you get one with tiny brown spots on the skin, this is probably one of those and the spot is the sugars in the skin much like a banana when it's ripening. After storage, it's put onto trucks or trains, still at very cold Temps, shipped to their destination like a grocery warehouse, then on to the stores, still with the Temps maintained. By the time you purchase them, they have been well stratified. I don't store my apples in the fridge but on the counter because they don't last that long around me since I love apples, and more than once I have finished my apple and looked at the seed to find they've already started to sprout. I have probably 50 Honeycrisp trees ready to go into the ground at this time. My goal is to graft as many different kinds of apples onto the same root stock as I can using the same cross pollination time chart.
@@ogreunderbridge5204 I never heard of them gassing fruit to "put it to sleep" so I can't answer that. I know sometimes they use ethylene gas to force various early-picked fruit and veg to ripen up. But the OP seems to be talking about something entirely different.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 What I really is searching for is "how to prolong shelf life on fruits", in this case apples. Guy said gas. I ask which :)) Do you know how to make them stay well edible for long time storage ? :)
@@ogreunderbridge5204 freeze 'em. Or cook and can them, or ferment them into cider/wine/vinegar etc. I'm not being a smart-alec; that's honestly the only ways I know to keep apples and other fruits edible longer than a few weeks, maybe a few months.
I have 17 Pink Lady Apple seed surprises growing in my front yard right now! And 4 Red D'Angou Pear seed surprises near them! And, out back, I have 4 Red Delicious Apple seed surprises, a Honey Bee seed surprise, and 4 Fuji Apple seed surprises growing in my back yard! This is going to be a good year!
We have about 6 apple trees growing from seed. We've planted a lot more than 6 over the past 6 years but we intentionally ignore them besides the rare bit of water in July and August so only the strongest survive. Last summer we got our 1st fruit off of one of the oldest, about 5 years old. To our great delight, they are delicious! Very small, the size of a crabapple, but the taste is amazing. The kids call them "cherry apples" because it grew in bunches of 5-6 fruits. And the blossoms are gorgeous giant pink things that make the tree look like a pink cloud in spring. This year looks like a repeat with fruit all over. We didn't touch it last year but this year we are thinking of thinning the fruit to see if the apples will grow larger. All in all, a very gratifying experiment!
@@StefanSobkowiak Thanks! I didn't know that crab apples could be sweet! The only ones I've ever seen/tried had to be cooked before you could eat them. Cool to know that. 😁
I sprouted organic apple and pear tree seeds n a paper towel. I first knicked the seed before putting n tamp paper towel. I now have 4 Apple trees. 1 Gala,2 Honey Crisp and a Figi. I also have 2 organic pear trees. They r all beautiful.
Fantastic. I had never understood the issue of the strongest tree is a tree from seed, therefore has the longest taproot. I also did not really understand the difference between root stock and the grafted fruit. Thank you!
I like to let three side branches grow, and then top the tree. My plan is to graft two known cultivars onto the two lowest branches, and let the mystery fruit reveal itself on the third branch! If it is undesirable, I can always graft a third known cultivar in it's place. This allows for awesome cross pollination of all my trees! I'm so excited, because I am truly...well on my way!
You're adorable. I love pink lady apples. I have 6 seedlings that i started 4 months ago. 3 of them are nice and big the others are smaller one is a runt lol. I am just enjoying growing them.
I recently started planting apple seeds that had germinated inside my apples. I did it mosly for the wood as my bunnies enjoy the bark and its good for their teeth! They love apples and if I should get some good tasting ones great, if not they make great orgaic material for my sandbox here in Vegas. thank you for all you tech!
My favorite are Cortland, Lobo and Mutsu. Or any apple fresh from the tree. Growing up I had fresh picked apples. Nothing that you can buy in the store today compares to freshly picked fruit. Actually I can't stand the taste of Gala, Red Delicious or other popular varieties. You can taste the chemicals. That is why I'm trying to grow a few apple trees. They are young still, maybe next year I'll have some fruit. I absolutely love your channel, and watched the movie and every single video more than once. I have learned so much from you. Thank you
I have a cousin who grafted pears he has passed now. I thought he was genius and he was. I am going to try this on a poorly performing pear. I learn a good lesson every day from you. I own the world's tiniest permaculture orchard. Trees are established now i can play! Merci!
a lot of this was discussed in the book " THE BOTANY OF DESIRE" in the chapters about apples! apples are so amazing and important! thank u for the info!
Hi, I’ve got an Apple 🍏 tree which I’d say is about 3 years old and it’s already reaching second story windows of our house and has way too many lower branches and it’s the end of June and mid summer for us here, am I ok to prune lower branches and if so do you have any tips to lessen the chances of infection?
An apple grew out of the compost and 10 years later it has great fruit they are big and juicy. Had another tree from compost. When it was mature the first harvest eas so bountiful i had to put supports on the branches but the fruit was a mongrel. So i fed my worms with g. Thanks for the tip about grafting, gr8 idea. I am east of Adelaide in the mount lofty ranges.
The phrase at 2:40, "...from the seeds that fell from the fruit next to it." Should or could the seeds be left in the fruit and allowed to rot into the soil or must the seeds be separated from the fruit first before planting?
You got it. You can leave the seeds to rot in the fruit, as long as you don’t have lots of deer, boar, bear, raccoon, rabbits.... to take your fruit and seeds.
L.S.S. I grow a yellow delicious apple from seed in an upkeep field at work. The fruit and tree were very small but I thought it would be great to have in my yard. When I went to dig it up I found the tap root squeezed between 2 very large rocks. Sorry I tried to dig it up,it didn't survive but it did give me a yellow devious apple from seed.
Just cut open an organic pink lady apple and all 6 seeds inside are spouting. My 5 year old is begging to put at least one in a pot! Hence why I’m here. 😃
Apple trees from cuttings are possible but have a low rooting percentage. Best to take cuttings in winter, add rooting hormones and put them in the fridge. When and if roots initiate you can plant them out with mulch in spring. Seems to be a big variation between cultivars.
@@StefanSobkowiak Okay Thank You So Much. Also I planted the seed and the weather is windy. Is that the same? Also thank you so much your video is so helpful.
Hello I have try to grow my seeds do the seeds need to be washed in cold water at first then I plant it in a small pot how many monts dose it take for ii to grow I got 2 shoots small ones I do water it
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Hi, so we”ll never know what will grow from an apple seed, wow, I have more then 10 little apple trees growing and awaiting to be transplanted, so should I go and planted them in the soil?
awesome, very enjoyable watching your video, thanks for sharing your intelligent, i am in fact growing my apple trees from seeds, they are now growing up beautifully :)
My fiance planted one apple tree from seed when she was in elementary in her grandparents backyard n is now about 17 year old tree is huge and is the best apple tree in the yard turn out to be granny Smith apple..
I found a pacific crabapple tree. Cultivated. I opened it and the seeds are bright red. Not sure if that means they’re ready or not? Any suggestions? Should they still be a nice brown with a crabapple?
Hey Stefan, Love your channel! It's funny how often your episodes mirror what is going on in my garden here in Saskatchewan... just the other day when I was processing apples, I looked at the seeds of a very fine specimen and I wondered about growing one from seed and skipping the whole root stock, grafting program... as I watch your video I have a few seeds drying on the window sill...I used to work in a tree nursery in which we grew the root stock, and did our own grafting... Anyway I appreciate your enthusiasm and commitment to honoring this land. Melissa P.S. I am curious about the potatoes you planted back in May...
Thanks. I’ve filmed updates for almost all the spring videos just haven’t put them together yet. Potatoes are going superb and the bed is beautiful ready for a fall or spring crop.
I have a year old apple I sprouted from an Envy seed out of Australia. So far, she's looking great. Fingers crossed! I have a couple of store bought Gala's. They're two years old.
Oh. And I just put four Jonathan Apple seeds in the fridge to plant in March-ish. Wish me luck there too! I'm really excited about the "no transplant" tap root difference and can't wait to see for myself.
In another video I saw you mention bending top of the tree to keep it lower without cutting- can you train the top main spike into a circle/spiral ? Would that me dumb? Not a tight circle but wide low
Can you recommend what root stock to use for grafting and how to grow it when starting an orchard? Is it also possible to buy already grafted trees if you are too lazy to do it yourself?
You probably wont reply, but how do you water them seeds in the winter??? I want to test both, directly in ground and in pots. But im in southern NM and idk how to keep them waterered in the winter. Just as long as the ground is wet???
Just think of a seed from a wild plant. It falls in fall, gets some moisture over winter and hopefully gets moisture in spring which allows it to germinate.
@@StefanSobkowiak its how i thought about it, but I've never tried it, so I'm just I guess nervous I'm gonna f up, but I can't learn unless I f up lol.
Oh, I am SO wanting to do this! Only we're in a low chill area (sub tropics), so I don't know if our low-chill varieties will fruit with only a handful of nights' frost per year.
@@StefanSobkowiak Oh, yes, we have 4 low chill cultivars to choose from. I just don't know if growing them from seed will produce trees that will fruit with a low chill, too! Looks like a fun experiment anyway!
@ from seed it would be an experiment. I like Mark Shepard’s technique of planting seedlings and grafting them just above the first branches so you get something known PLUS you get to evaluate the seedling..
I started dozens of apple seeds From seeds almost a decade ago. The first one produced crab apples three years ago. I have another in my yard I grafted 4 other varieties onto just in case it was a dud. I have gotten golden delicious apples off one of grafts the last two years. I finally have 6 apples growing on the original part of the tree! It’s a tip bearer and I’ve been pruning off the buds every fall! The seed I believe was a pink lady or jazz apple to being with. The apples are as big as the first Apple you started your video with. I would say a good 3/3.5”...a real apple!!! Temps dropped here last week into the 40’s and caused my apples to turn a bright pink on one side. I have them in zip loc bags to protect against the Fungus, bees, and squirrels. It’s worked the last two years...knock on wood. I will have to see if they will come off when lightly lifted. I would assume they are ripe now?
@@StefanSobkowiak I couldn’t tell you on disease resistance since they’ve been sealed in baggies all year. But I can tell you the golden delicious still are spotty even with the zip loc bags on them. My new apples look perfect. Thanks for the encouraging words.
@@StefanSobkowiak I know I have some rust spots every year. I removed my pine tree out of the yard and it’s gotten much better. The neighbor still has one. It always has big galls on it every year. So I’m cursed till his tree gets removed. I tried a light lift and twist on my apples today. They stayed put so hopefully in a few weeks when they finally ripen the squirrels still won’t figure out they are there.
Cold air sinks, hot air convect. How cold temp can apple trees take ? How long periods ? Can measures of root insulation/mound frost barriers in sloped planting ground help ?
Each tree cultivar if named should be rated for it's hardiness zone. That's the cold tolerance of the tree. One night of cold below it's tolerance can kill it or kill it back to the root. Stick to trees in your zone and you won't need frost barriers.
I can see how not disturbing the tap root would be beneficial to the overall health of the roots/tree. Knowing that you may not be getting the same type of apple and that you might need to graft, would it be better to use seeds from old orchards (unknown varieties from well established tress) around us in Vermont? Or should we use seeds from local growers? Would this provide better root stock than buying modern root stocks? Also. Would using an air gap growing bed be an option that would allow good tap root and be able to grow a large quantity of root stock in a small space? Thanks Rich
Yes I love air root pruning. The best site I think on the subject is rootmaker.com From what I learned it may send out several taproots but not likely as quick or as effective as the original. May be wrong, so if you find otherwise please let me know.
Stefan Sobkowiak thank you so much for the reply. I’ll check that website out. I’m going to be trying to cold stratify seeds this winter and plant in air pruning beds come spring. I saw it first on EdibleAcres channel and thought “I could do that!”
Wow! That was a serious learning curve for me! There are dozens of apple trees here in the windrows on this property on PEI. Most, if not all have been set by seeds dropped by birds,I imagine. I've mainly thought of them as scrap trees. They give all types of apples from them but I have never harvested anything except a few large yellow apples that taste pretty good and a Mackintosh-looking apple. But I didn't know about the taproot and transplanting. Do the nursery grafted stock use transplanted trees? I bought two this year, a Granny Smith and a Honeycrisp. Now I'm wondering about the taproot of said trees.
I have a bunch of apple/and or pear trees that have been growing out of my compost dirt. Some that are over 7 feet tall. One is near a tree I planted from a pink lady seed. Can I graft one to the other? Or I need to find a healthy apple tree that is bearing fruit from a nursery?
I also have peach/nectarine trees from compost dirt that look like they are flourishing. Also around 6 feet tall and full of branches and growing rapidly. Also several citrus trees, not so tall, but they are growing nicely. Will the citrus bear fruit??
For citrus I guess it will depend on your climate unless you bring it in for the winter. Eventually it will flower but I’m not sure if citrus are self fertile or must have another partner to fruit successfully.
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What is everyone’s (#1) favourite apple to eat?
Cortland and Macintosh.
Alternatives for Life classics 👌
Really like sweet varieties such as kiku and honeycrisp 🤓
Mark Hunter honeycrisp is also one of my top 👍
@@markhunter2244 Honeycrips are very good.
I learned how to graft two years ago while in gardening school and I absolutely loved it. And ever since learning that you can graft apples and pears together, I’ve become obsessed with growing a tree that has both. If I ever get a house with a garden I will have so many frankensteins fruit trees. I’m so excited!
Is this something you do regularly? Do you sell them at all?
I have been grafting apples for about 10 years. I have never heard of apples and pears together. I do know you can graft plums, cherries, peaches, apricots, and almonds. These are all of the species Prunus and therefore are compatible.
what gardning school did you go to?
I grew 17 apple seedlings, 15 pear seedlings, and 3 plum seedlings last year. Thanks to you. You truly have one of the best RUclips channels! I wish I could grow your favorite plums!
So nice of you
Oh woops ! I’ve been growing them indoors from seed; they’re very fragile… about 1” high, it’s summer right now, should I go and plant the baby plants and my germinated seeds in the ground, can they withstand the summer heat or does planting them in the shade help ? And they don’t need a fertilizer, just water ? Thanks ; )
How did your trees do?!!!
@IyseHexxo-br8uo I gave all but a few away to homesteader friends. The last I spoke with all of them The trees are all still alive and doing well. Mine are doing good!
Just a quick note, apples that you get from the grocery store have more than likely already been stratified. After being washed and sorted, apples are stored in warehouses at or near freezing temps for as long as and sometimes more then two years. They are gased to put them to sleep. If you get one with tiny brown spots on the skin, this is probably one of those and the spot is the sugars in the skin much like a banana when it's ripening. After storage, it's put onto trucks or trains, still at very cold Temps, shipped to their destination like a grocery warehouse, then on to the stores, still with the Temps maintained. By the time you purchase them, they have been well stratified. I don't store my apples in the fridge but on the counter because they don't last that long around me since I love apples, and more than once I have finished my apple and looked at the seed to find they've already started to sprout. I have probably 50 Honeycrisp trees ready to go into the ground at this time. My goal is to graft as many different kinds of apples onto the same root stock as I can using the same cross pollination time chart.
Do you know what type of gas is used to sleep them ?
@@ogreunderbridge5204 I never heard of them gassing fruit to "put it to sleep" so I can't answer that. I know sometimes they use ethylene gas to force various early-picked fruit and veg to ripen up. But the OP seems to be talking about something entirely different.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 What I really is searching for is "how to prolong shelf life on fruits", in this case apples. Guy said gas. I ask which :)) Do you know how to make them stay well edible for long time storage ? :)
@@ogreunderbridge5204 freeze 'em. Or cook and can them, or ferment them into cider/wine/vinegar etc.
I'm not being a smart-alec; that's honestly the only ways I know to keep apples and other fruits edible longer than a few weeks, maybe a few months.
@@ogreunderbridge5204 They reduce the amount of Oxygen in the air and slightly increase the CO2. Its called CA or ULO Storage.
I have 17 Pink Lady Apple seed surprises growing in my front yard right now! And 4 Red D'Angou Pear seed surprises near them! And, out back, I have 4 Red Delicious Apple seed surprises, a Honey Bee seed surprise, and 4 Fuji Apple seed surprises growing in my back yard! This is going to be a good year!
I currently have two apple tree bonsais i sprouted from growing in a paper towel😂 theyre now two and a half years old and such cute little trees
How tall are they? Because I want to do the same thing.
How thick are they?
And not a single video? Bruh...
We have about 6 apple trees growing from seed. We've planted a lot more than 6 over the past 6 years but we intentionally ignore them besides the rare bit of water in July and August so only the strongest survive. Last summer we got our 1st fruit off of one of the oldest, about 5 years old. To our great delight, they are delicious! Very small, the size of a crabapple, but the taste is amazing. The kids call them "cherry apples" because it grew in bunches of 5-6 fruits. And the blossoms are gorgeous giant pink things that make the tree look like a pink cloud in spring. This year looks like a repeat with fruit all over. We didn't touch it last year but this year we are thinking of thinning the fruit to see if the apples will grow larger. All in all, a very gratifying experiment!
Wonderful an adapted tree. Thinning will make them a little larger but with pink flowers it’s mainly a delicious crab apple.
@@StefanSobkowiak Thanks! I didn't know that crab apples could be sweet! The only ones I've ever seen/tried had to be cooked before you could eat them. Cool to know that. 😁
This is an amazing video for a beginner like me thank you so much
Last year in an organic apple I found a sprouted seed. The tree is doing well.
Teri Jean wow the seed had already began to sprout that’s awesome and glad to hear it’s doing well!
Mines too
That's good to read! I just found a sprouted seed in a pink lady couple of days ago, I was wondering if I will be able to grow a tree from it
What type of fruit is it producing, if any?
@@xander4043 well it hasn't flowered yet. I only grew it to graft onto another apple tree.
I sprouted organic apple and pear tree seeds n a paper towel. I first knicked the seed before putting n tamp paper towel. I now have 4 Apple trees. 1 Gala,2 Honey Crisp and a Figi. I also have 2 organic pear trees. They r all beautiful.
Just found multiple sprouting seeds in a braeburn, found myself here immediately. Wish me luck!!
I have one that's about a year and a half old now I found in an empire. it's been struggling a bit... :/
One of the best apple growing videos I have ever seen. Thanks so much sir
Wow, thanks
Fantastic. I had never understood the issue of the strongest tree is a tree from seed, therefore has the longest taproot. I also did not really understand the difference between root stock and the grafted fruit. Thank you!
Glad it helped!
Are we not gonna talk about the caterpillar crawling on him?!
Brian Wood haha finally! Incredibly distracting even while editing
Lmbo right!
Lol look me up on Facebook, God Bless
sign of a true plant guy
I like to let three side branches grow, and then top the tree. My plan is to graft two known cultivars onto the two lowest branches, and let the mystery fruit reveal itself on the third branch! If it is undesirable, I can always graft a third known cultivar in it's place.
This allows for awesome cross pollination of all my trees! I'm so excited, because I am truly...well on my way!
You're adorable. I love pink lady apples. I have 6 seedlings that i started 4 months ago. 3 of them are nice and big the others are smaller one is a runt lol. I am just enjoying growing them.
great video and I love your enthusiasm
Excellent Video
Finally I know how it’s done
andreas schaetze haha excellent glad we could help out 👍
Thanks Stefan! 😊🙏 🍎 Im going to start some in my indoor garden.
Hidden Harvest Grow Lights awesome you’ll have to let us know how it goes!
@@ZaneMedia Will do!🙏
Thank you for sharing the ideas on planting apple
I recently started planting apple seeds that had germinated inside my apples. I did it mosly for the wood as my bunnies enjoy the bark and its good for their teeth! They love apples and if I should get some good tasting ones great, if not they make great orgaic material for my sandbox here in Vegas. thank you for all you tech!
I like your videos, i am growing lots of trees from seed including apple
Great video! Thanks!
Fay Cotton thanks Fay glad you enjoyed it!
Love the enthusiasm
Katie Pie haha yes he really gets into it :)
Egremont russet is my old garden fav apple.
Thanks for the video.
x2
Good Descriptions with a lot of of information. Thanks.
Yes I am growing them thanks
Well done both educational & humorous.
My favorite are Cortland, Lobo and Mutsu. Or any apple fresh from the tree. Growing up I had fresh picked apples. Nothing that you can buy in the store today compares to freshly picked fruit. Actually I can't stand the taste of Gala, Red Delicious or other popular varieties. You can taste the chemicals.
That is why I'm trying to grow a few apple trees. They are young still, maybe next year I'll have some fruit.
I absolutely love your channel, and watched the movie and every single video more than once. I have learned so much from you. Thank you
Ewa Hall that’s awesome Ewa, I’ve never heard of Mutsu (I’m sure my father has) but if you’re comparing it to the others I’m sure it’s delicious!!
Ewa glad it helps, keep growing your own fruit.
I love the end idea of having the best of both worlds.
right, have watched a couple of tutorial on grafting, he is the first to mention I can keep both. In theory, it makes sense.
Your videos are great
I have a cousin who grafted pears he has passed now. I thought he was genius and he was. I am going to try this on a poorly performing pear. I learn a good lesson every day from you. I own the world's tiniest permaculture orchard. Trees are established now i can play! Merci!
You are the best in explanation... seriously...u are just awesome....
I just planted 4 Apple trees from y seeds into my garden last month. 2 more to put in ground. I'll see what I get. I'm excited.
Awesome find, so glad I found this
Enjoy!
Sir thanks for sharing
a lot of this was discussed in the book " THE BOTANY OF DESIRE" in the chapters about apples! apples are so amazing and important! thank u for the info!
Eileen Hearne you’re welcome thanks for the awesome feedback :)
Good book!
Very educational thank you!!
More Than Mortal glad you enjoyed it!
Once the seeds are in the freezer. Should they spend a few days/weeks in the fridge to "wake up" before direct seeding them.
usually severals weeks- wait until march or so
A few weeks or maybe just one or two maybe enough. Follow the season outdoors, when no more snow weather then fridge and seed direct.
Usaualy takes 3weeks
Hi, I’ve got an Apple 🍏 tree which I’d say is about 3 years old and it’s already reaching second story windows of our house and has way too many lower branches and it’s the end of June and mid summer for us here, am I ok to prune lower branches and if so do you have any tips to lessen the chances of infection?
I have a summer vs winter pruning video coming out this month. Best to wait until winter.
Good stuff !
Just planted my apple seeds! Hopefully they grow!
Update?
An apple grew out of the compost and 10 years later it has great fruit they are big and juicy. Had another tree from compost. When it was mature the first harvest eas so bountiful i had to put supports on the branches but the fruit was a mongrel. So i fed my worms with g. Thanks for the tip about grafting, gr8 idea. I am east of Adelaide in the mount lofty ranges.
You may have the next Gala on your hands. If consensus is that it’s a great apple, consider grafting it to preserve it.
The phrase at 2:40, "...from the seeds that fell from the fruit next to it." Should or could the seeds be left in the fruit and allowed to rot into the soil or must the seeds be separated from the fruit first before planting?
You got it. You can leave the seeds to rot in the fruit, as long as you don’t have lots of deer, boar, bear, raccoon, rabbits.... to take your fruit and seeds.
O.K. Thank you very much. I guess that I would have to leave plenty for them to eat as well.
L.S.S. I grow a yellow delicious apple from seed in an upkeep field at work. The fruit and tree were very small but I thought it would be great to have in my yard. When I went to dig it up I found the tap root squeezed between 2 very large rocks. Sorry I tried to dig it up,it didn't survive but it did give me a yellow devious apple from seed.
Fantastic!
Just ran across your video, great content!
Welcome aboard!
great video
Yes
Just cut open an organic pink lady apple and all 6 seeds inside are spouting. My 5 year old is begging to put at least one in a pot! Hence why I’m here. 😃
This was really helpful
Wow brilliant, thank you for not discouraging me! i shared with people that i am planting apple tree seeds and they all said it was a terrible idea.
Great idea, especially if you plan to graft them to your favorite apples.
Pink lady definitely my favorite apple. Growing a red gala and granny Smith. 2 years in ground from barefoot no fruit just yet.
RyneKly pink lady yes!!
RyneKly and you’ll have to let us know when it finally does decide to produce, but I’m sure it’ll be worth the wait 👍
I'm looking for heirloom varieties that have a similar sweet/tart balance like Pink Lady, so far she is one of a kind and still my favorite
Hello thank you for showing your little tree .Tell me what you spray on your tree .
Whey on some.
If you do the paper towel method does the paper towel have to be moist wet or wet?
Moist
How far apart do you plants apple trees, do they like lots of water or little or med amount
Ours on dwarf rootstock are 8-10’ on sandy soil, I would recommend farther in most other situations, up to 40’ on standard roots.
At what depth should you place the seed for the best success?
The general rule is you plant a seed twice the depth as the seed is wide.
nice info thanks
You're welcome
@@StefanSobkowiak im experimenting with trying to grow apple trees from the branches or sucker i cut off have you had any success ?
Apple trees from cuttings are possible but have a low rooting percentage. Best to take cuttings in winter, add rooting hormones and put them in the fridge. When and if roots initiate you can plant them out with mulch in spring. Seems to be a big variation between cultivars.
@@StefanSobkowiak thank you will try and let you know
Is it okay if we take the apple straight from the apple and plant it?
Yes but it may need to go through a cold period to germinate, unless it’s been stored in the fridge for a few months.
@@StefanSobkowiak Okay Thank You So Much. Also I planted the seed and the weather is windy. Is that the same? Also thank you so much your video is so helpful.
Wind is normal.
Hello I have try to grow my seeds do the seeds need to be washed in cold water at first then I plant it in a small pot how many monts dose it take for ii to grow I got 2 shoots small ones I do water it
Love this
Super video - can't wait to see the new orchard. Science!
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Hi, so we”ll never know what will grow from an apple seed, wow, I have more then 10 little apple trees growing and awaiting to be transplanted, so should I go and planted them in the soil?
AcuariosHabitables hopefully you’ll get a “gem” out of one of them :)
Yup now is a good time in our area. Fall is the best time to plant most deciduous trees.
Also how much water should we put on the soil when the seed is in?
As little as it needs to germinate in your soil
“ Some will give you spiney trees you go oh my god i cant even go near that tree “ haha 😜
i love it how to grow them 💓 from Philippines 🇵🇭
awesome, very enjoyable watching your video, thanks for sharing your intelligent, i am in fact growing my apple trees from seeds, they are now growing up beautifully :)
Can you take cuttings from apples trees in the fall for grafting?
Late summer bud graft
I have it in a small pot and it is in fall and i live in north east can I transplant the tree to a bigger pot every time it get bigger
you can and it should remain a bonsai if you prune the roots
Boskoop, Golden Delicious nad Jonagold are still my favorites.
So entertaining besides informative
Glad to hear it!
My fiance planted one apple tree from seed when she was in elementary in her grandparents backyard n is now about 17 year old tree is huge and is the best apple tree in the yard turn out to be granny Smith apple..
I found a pacific crabapple tree. Cultivated. I opened it and the seeds are bright red. Not sure if that means they’re ready or not? Any suggestions? Should they still be a nice brown with a crabapple?
Red is ripe for some, as long as it’s not white.
Stefan Sobkowiak okay thanks :)
Are the old apple 🍎 trees varieties like gravensteen just as random in what you get from seeds?
Certainly mostly the old ones are random seedlings discovered.
Hey Stefan,
Love your channel! It's funny how often your episodes mirror what is going on in my garden here in Saskatchewan... just the other day when I was processing apples, I looked at the seeds of a very fine specimen and I wondered about growing one from seed and skipping the whole root stock, grafting program... as I watch your video I have a few seeds drying on the window sill...I used to work in a tree nursery in which we grew the root stock, and did our own grafting...
Anyway I appreciate your enthusiasm and commitment to honoring this land.
Melissa
P.S. I am curious about the potatoes you planted back in May...
Melissa W haha great minds think alike ;)
Thanks. I’ve filmed updates for almost all the spring videos just haven’t put them together yet. Potatoes are going superb and the bed is beautiful ready for a fall or spring crop.
That's fantastic! I can't wait until you post them!
The prior owners of my orchard grew a tree in their compost pile and put a patent on it. It is a decent apple.
I have a year old apple I sprouted from an Envy seed out of Australia. So far, she's looking great. Fingers crossed! I have a couple of store bought Gala's. They're two years old.
Oh. And I just put four Jonathan Apple seeds in the fridge to plant in March-ish. Wish me luck there too! I'm really excited about the "no transplant" tap root difference and can't wait to see for myself.
I did the paper towel method and my 3 trees are doing well haha
My favorite food is apple 😍😍😍😍😝😝😝😜😜😜😋😋😋😋
Great tree
Hello!!! I wanted know, HOW LONG THIS TREE IS FAR FRUIT,?
4-7 years
In another video I saw you mention bending top of the tree to keep it lower without cutting- can you train the top main spike into a circle/spiral ? Would that me dumb? Not a tight circle but wide low
Yes great way to keep the tree lower.
Should I plant my seeds in the fall or in the spring?
Depends on potential seed eaters. Fall and screen on top works or store in fridge or freezer and spring seed.
Can you recommend what root stock to use for grafting and how to grow it when starting an orchard? Is it also possible to buy already grafted trees if you are too lazy to do it yourself?
Rootstock determines size mostly so what size tree do you want? All fruit trees you buy (vast majority) are already grafted and grown.
that's a great idea! I want to try with Mango trees! You are not a farmer but an encyclopedia of plants. Thank you.
You probably wont reply, but how do you water them seeds in the winter??? I want to test both, directly in ground and in pots. But im in southern NM and idk how to keep them waterered in the winter. Just as long as the ground is wet???
Just think of a seed from a wild plant. It falls in fall, gets some moisture over winter and hopefully gets moisture in spring which allows it to germinate.
@@StefanSobkowiak its how i thought about it, but I've never tried it, so I'm just I guess nervous I'm gonna f up, but I can't learn unless I f up lol.
Melon is my favourite fruit
Oh, I am SO wanting to do this! Only we're in a low chill area (sub tropics), so I don't know if our low-chill varieties will fruit with only a handful of nights' frost per year.
You can find each cultivars chill hours or ask your extension agent, they should know.
@@StefanSobkowiak Oh, yes, we have 4 low chill cultivars to choose from. I just don't know if growing them from seed will produce trees that will fruit with a low chill, too!
Looks like a fun experiment anyway!
@ from seed it would be an experiment. I like Mark Shepard’s technique of planting seedlings and grafting them just above the first branches so you get something known PLUS you get to evaluate the seedling..
@@StefanSobkowiak What fun! Thank you - I can't wait to do it! :D
Question: If I had a golden delicious and a granny Smith. Could I graft a honey crisp branch to each tree and leave the rest as the seedling?
Yes but the rest are not seedlings.
@@StefanSobkowiak oh my apologies I mean if I took a seed from both apples and Grew the trees, then grafted the branches to them.
my favroiute apples are the redapples
I started dozens of apple seeds From seeds almost a decade ago. The first one produced crab apples three years ago. I have another in my yard I grafted 4 other varieties onto just in case it was a dud. I have gotten golden delicious apples off one of grafts the last two years. I finally have 6 apples growing on the original part of the tree! It’s a tip bearer and I’ve been pruning off the buds every fall! The seed I believe was a pink lady or jazz apple to being with. The apples are as big as the first Apple you started your video with. I would say a good 3/3.5”...a real apple!!! Temps dropped here last week into the 40’s and caused my apples to turn a bright pink on one side. I have them in zip loc bags to protect against the Fungus, bees, and squirrels. It’s worked the last two years...knock on wood. I will have to see if they will come off when lightly lifted. I would assume they are ripe now?
Fantastic. Looks are important since people usually buy on looks but taste is essential. Disease resistance is right up there as well.
@@StefanSobkowiak I couldn’t tell you on disease resistance since they’ve been sealed in baggies all year. But I can tell you the golden delicious still are spotty even with the zip loc bags on them. My new apples look perfect. Thanks for the encouraging words.
You can tell most diseases are on the leaves and the fruit, so even outside the bag.
@@StefanSobkowiak I know I have some rust spots every year. I removed my pine tree out of the yard and it’s gotten much better. The neighbor still has one. It always has big galls on it every year. So I’m cursed till his tree gets removed. I tried a light lift and twist on my apples today. They stayed put so hopefully in a few weeks when they finally ripen the squirrels still won’t figure out they are there.
Cold air sinks, hot air convect. How cold temp can apple trees take ? How long periods ? Can measures of root insulation/mound frost barriers in sloped planting ground help ?
Each tree cultivar if named should be rated for it's hardiness zone. That's the cold tolerance of the tree. One night of cold below it's tolerance can kill it or kill it back to the root. Stick to trees in your zone and you won't need frost barriers.
Hey ☺ its realy helpful to me as i hv grown apple tree at ma home im ur new subscriber 😍 m from amritsar punjab india
Welcome
I can see how not disturbing the tap root would be beneficial to the overall health of the roots/tree. Knowing that you may not be getting the same type of apple and that you might need to graft, would it be better to use seeds from old orchards (unknown varieties from well established tress) around us in Vermont? Or should we use seeds from local growers? Would this provide better root stock than buying modern root stocks?
Also. Would using an air gap growing bed be an option that would allow good tap root and be able to grow a large quantity of root stock in a small space?
Thanks
Rich
Seed in place from disease resistant trees even old trees would be best. Air root pruned is great for root branching if transplanting.
Does disease resistance follow the seed if the seed is from a grafted tree? I could grab seeds from a newer tree that is local but it is grafted.
You make me smile. I saw your video on dandylions years ago, wery nice, i'm subscribing.👌👍
Asian pears are 2.49 a pear where i live so I would definitely 👍 try to grow one.. 😅
Have you heard of air-pruning? Would using air-pruning allow the tree’s taproot to continue growing down once planted?
Yes I love air root pruning. The best site I think on the subject is rootmaker.com From what I learned it may send out several taproots but not likely as quick or as effective as the original. May be wrong, so if you find otherwise please let me know.
Stefan Sobkowiak thank you so much for the reply. I’ll check that website out. I’m going to be trying to cold stratify seeds this winter and plant in air pruning beds come spring. I saw it first on EdibleAcres channel and thought “I could do that!”
Stefan Sobkowiak I don’t have an area to direct roots plant so this is the next best thing.
Wow! That was a serious learning curve for me! There are dozens of apple trees here in the windrows on this property on PEI. Most, if not all have been set by seeds dropped by birds,I imagine. I've mainly thought of them as scrap trees. They give all types of apples from them but I have never harvested anything except a few large yellow apples that taste pretty good and a Mackintosh-looking apple. But I didn't know about the taproot and transplanting. Do the nursery grafted stock use transplanted trees? I bought two this year, a Granny Smith and a Honeycrisp. Now I'm wondering about the taproot of said trees.
The only tree to have a taproot intact is a seedling that has never been transplanted.
I have a bunch of apple/and or pear trees that have been growing out of my compost dirt. Some that are over 7 feet tall. One is near a tree I planted from a pink lady seed. Can I graft one to the other? Or I need to find a healthy apple tree that is bearing fruit from a nursery?
I also have peach/nectarine trees from compost dirt that look like they are flourishing. Also around 6 feet tall and full of branches and growing rapidly. Also several citrus trees, not so tall, but they are growing nicely. Will the citrus bear fruit??
Yes you can graft any apple onto another apple.
For citrus I guess it will depend on your climate unless you bring it in for the winter. Eventually it will flower but I’m not sure if citrus are self fertile or must have another partner to fruit successfully.