FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
I know this is wildly off topic on an arborist website...........
My favorite tree, the much discussed crab apple tree out front, is sending up shoots. I think.
I read where my tree is probably a "graft"? Normal crab apple is not hardy enough to survive up here apparently. So the tree wizards graft a couple together like Gene Wilder and we have a tree now.
One of the "shoots" has started to produce fruit. What has me puzzled is that the fruit are quite different in size and color to the parent tree. The flowers are pink, and the bloom is much later.
The leaves are serrated where the leaves are smooth on the parent tree. The apples are half again as big and yellowish red.
The fruit matured much slower than the old tree. Maybe because of its young age?
My dad talked about a second crab apple tree in the yard that died a long time ago. It was a larger fruit type.....maybe like what I have in this young tree.
Of course the tree is growing in a terrible spot and will probably need to come out.
Anyway....I saved a handful of over ripe shriveled up apples and want to try and plant the seeds.
How in the hell do you do that? Plant whole apples? Just the seeds?
Start them this winter inside? Wait till spring?
Any guidance would be appreciated.
My favorite tree, the much discussed crab apple tree out front, is sending up shoots. I think.
I read where my tree is probably a "graft"? Normal crab apple is not hardy enough to survive up here apparently. So the tree wizards graft a couple together like Gene Wilder and we have a tree now.
One of the "shoots" has started to produce fruit. What has me puzzled is that the fruit are quite different in size and color to the parent tree. The flowers are pink, and the bloom is much later.
The leaves are serrated where the leaves are smooth on the parent tree. The apples are half again as big and yellowish red.
The fruit matured much slower than the old tree. Maybe because of its young age?
My dad talked about a second crab apple tree in the yard that died a long time ago. It was a larger fruit type.....maybe like what I have in this young tree.
Of course the tree is growing in a terrible spot and will probably need to come out.
Anyway....I saved a handful of over ripe shriveled up apples and want to try and plant the seeds.
How in the hell do you do that? Plant whole apples? Just the seeds?
Start them this winter inside? Wait till spring?
Any guidance would be appreciated.