Can you grow a apple tree from any seed from any apple tree?

Question

Can you grow a apple tree from any seed from any apple tree?

Answer 1

Make sure the seed is viable first.  Place the seeds in a glass of water.  Whatever ones float to the top...toss.  The good seeds are on the bottom.

Just reread, and nerkaman is correct.  Needs to be pollinated.

Answer 2

yha just have a spot with tender soil and 3 or 4 seeds give it a gallon of water a day and hopefully it should do fine.

just make shure u have the tree in a good spot so u wont have to cut it down when it is full grown and is serveing u good fresh apples have fun planting i hope this workes for u

Answer 3

As said previously, should not be a problem growing from seed, but what it was pollinated with or what variety of apple tree you end up with is impossible to say. Every McIntosh apple grown over the past 150 years was taken from successive generations of cuttings from trees, all started from a single wild tree in Ontario.

My friends from the Canadian Ag Research center tell me that of every ~1,000 or so crosses derived from commercial apple varieties, maybe one will be a seed/tree with characteristics worth investigating further and of these, only one in 100 will reach a test market.

One in ten thousand is not very good odds if you are planning to eat the fruit your apple tree may produce!

Answer 4

Yes, this is what the seeds are for.

Answer 5

If you're good :]

Answer 6

if you have good soil

Answer 7

Yes but rooting a cutting would get you a fruit bearing tree sooner and easier and your fruit Would be certain to be the variety of apple you took the cutting from. Seeds can revert back to a wilder variety. Just cut a 4 in cutting from the tree you want to start. Make sure that it is new growth from this year and has not turned brown, meaning the stem yet. Remove the lower leaves from the cutting and dip the bottom 1/4 in of the cutting into a rooting hormone talc powder. You can get the rooting powder form walmart or usually any garden center. Bonide is a good brand. To insure that the rooting hormone doesn't burn the cutting, I mix a 50/50 ratio of baby powder in with the rooting hormone. This also will make it go twice as far. You can either stick the cutting directly into potting media a mist everyday, being sure to keep the soil moist, or the easier method, stick the cuttings in a vase or glass of water and when you see the roots appear transpant in soil. It usually takes about 2 weeks to see roots start to appear in water and about the same in the soil but you must not pull the cuttings from the soil to check for roots before then. This could prevent the fine roots from establishing, killing the cutting.

Answer 8

I have started them many times. But the right humidity is what keeps them going. Also they are an outside plant so when you start them is to be considered.  I have tried to start them in the winter months. They start out well, but the humidity drops in accordance as to how much we have to use the gas heat. Running the gas heat kills the humidity, that also kills the seedling.

It would be interesting to put your seeds where you want them to grow and see what happens. Every new perennial in my growing zone 5a is suppose to be mulched over at least the first two years to help the new roots from freezing.

I have a pink flowering crab apple that drops seeds. In the spring there are tiny sprouts possibly from the seeds that fell the "Fall Season"  before. This year I potted some of them. They are doing great.  Some seeds need to go through a winter season to sprout. But I have started apples Right directly from the apple seed from store bought apples. Some come up just days after planting.