Growing Fruit Tree from Seed

[clarkinks]

@nathanstrecker44

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New Apple Seedling Varieties

One of my many hobbies is growing new varieties of apples from seeds. This year I have two of my seedlings that reached fruiting age that I thought you might like to see. As your likely aware I grow many unique rare or heirloom varieties of plants. These were grown with no spray since they were not expected to fruit so they do show insect damage. [image]

Or these

Seedling Apples for cider

It’s that time of year again to start harvesting some of my seedling apples for making cider. I did not bother to spray them this year and they don’t look terrible all things considered. We will slice off the best parts for the cider and plant all the cores peels etc under a few inches of soil. I wish everyone would plant some apples to do this with. This is the best part of life. I use a juicer to make the cider rather than a press for small amounts [image]

Once in awhile we get lucky

Clark's Crabapple

Many of you remember this thread New Apple Seedling Varieties .The Clark’s crabapple as i mentioned fruits like clusters of grapes. Today at the @39thparallel orchard and Nursery you can see the clusters are heavy on these apples. They were top worked with these apples 2 or 3 years ago. Every year these seedlings are gaining popularity in Kansas. Here is Mike removing some damaged fruit and taking a minute to let me grab a few photos. Years ago Mike saw these at my property and has grown t…