I collected seeds from a pink lady apple that had already sprouted in the apple and now it looks like I have two very little apple trees growing, they are staying very short and I’m not sure I’m taking care of them right
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Wow. You have your own varieties and hopefully unique. Keep them slightly watered. Separate them if possible. Keep moving towards full sun. Some window glass is a UV filter.
As they grow outside in a couple years, graft them onto adult trees to speed up fruiting and evaluation.
Where are you as that would determine a lot.
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They are in a small pot on our windowsill until it’s not freezing outside, then I plan on letting them outside to strengthen the truck as they grow. they are so small right now do they require their own pots? It’s just hard to accommodate all my trees and other plants when it’s freezing outside, or when is the best time to separate them? I am in Arkansas, I think in between zone 8 or 9? What is grafting and is it required?
That’s the right idea, but separating them might have to wait till theyre dormant and lost their leaves. Focus on one thing at a time like raising the soil levell in pot if the seedling stretch too much, they would be seeking light. Keep hardening them off, or acclimatizing them gradually to sun intensity, wind etc. will help the transition.
A very small scale (but nonetheless cool) breeding program! When you get them in the ground, make sure you label them. The usual convention Skillcult uses (look him up on Youtube!) is [pollen parent] X [seed parent] [year of the cross], so yours would be Unknown X Pink Lady 2024 1 and Unknown X Pink Lady 2. If you like them after a few years of fruiting, you can give them their own names, whatever you like. Good luck!
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They are very little probably no taller than an inch or 2 right now, maybe 5 months old. So they never have been through dormancy and I’m honestly a bit hesitant to let them stay outside during the winter if this next winter is gonna be anything like the winter we just had.
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They both came from the same apple!! we cut it open and it was a mess of sprouts so I stuck them in a pot but only 2 broke out of the soil. If they survive to long enough to fruit will the apples taste anything like the pink lady apples or is it going to be their own type of apple
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@etalos1 Apples are like people, the tree is a blend of the father’s DNA (the apple tree that provided the pollen) and the mother’s DNA (the apple tree that produced the flower that the pollen was deposited by a bee in). The apple is not the child of the tree, it’s more like the womb of the apple tree, the seeds inside the apple are the children of the trees, which grow into adult trees. While both seeds came from one Pink Lady apple, they will not be genetically identical to the mother tree (see above), and therefore will not produce the same apples as the mother. Additionally, like human siblings, they will not have the same mix of DNA from their parents, and it’s possible (although less likely) that they may have different ‘fathers’ (as a bee can carry more than one type of pollen at a time), and either way will produce different apples. Since this was not an intentional cross that resulted in the apple, the ‘father’ could be any type of apple, hence why I wrote unknown above.
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Pretty cool actually!! Thank you for the information!! its weirdly hard to find detailed information on growing trees
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