Hallo, ich bin nicht sehr erfahren im Gartenbau, geschweige denn im Apfelanbau. Ich habe einen Apfel im Kühlschrank gelassen und diese Apfelsprossen erschienen. Kann mir jemand raten, was ich mit diesen Sprossen machen soll, damit sie überleben? Vielen Dank im Voraus.
Von: Michdr2
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Apple seeds will not grow trees that produce the same apple that they came from. It could be a weak tree with small, bitter apples and you won’t know for 5-10 years. All apple trees are grafted, where a living branch from a tree with good fruit is attached to a more sturdy rootstock. This means if you want an apple tree, you should either go through the grafting process, or just buy a tree.
If you just want to grow this for fun, just get a smallish pot (4-6″) filled with potting soil and pop the seed in maybe an inch down. Water only when the soil dries out on top and provide plenty of bright light.
Apples are crossbred like crazy. And this tree was pollinated by a tree of a different variety. So the tree that grows from these seeds will be a mystery. May not even produce fruit. But if it can, it will need to be pollinated by either a different variety or by a universal pollinator like crabapple (the edible kind, not the decorative Asian varieties). There are charts out there noting which varieties can be pollinated by which other varieties, [like this one](https://www.foodforestnursery.com/growing-guides/fruit-trees/apple-trees-growing-guide/apple-pollination-chart-3/?srsltid=AfmBOope8_HUQCRmuxsX3u13pd_KCI_S2V3YjOyRcI4w3XiPRZrRrqn1).
Your tree might be amazing, might be a dud 🤷🏻♂️.
Pot them immediately. Sprouted apple seeds are fragile, so plant them right away. I recommend a small pot, with good light and drainage. Apple trees will take a long time so be patient.
Throw them away and get a grafted cultivar. Apple seed do not breed true and seed grown trees generally produce bad eating fruit – you may win the genetic lottery, but you’re more likely to lose it. Just given the time and space trees take, you’re better off getting something you’ll like than waiting 5 -15 years to see if you like it.
Throw them away.
Apples don’t breed true to their parent plant; it’s basically random if any given apple seed grows into a tree that produces fruit people actually want to eat. And of course you have two wait many years to find out if the tree is any good. Because of this, most apples are grown through grafts – branches of trees of a variety that we already know taste good are grafted into new trees. It’s not a plant that you want to grow from seed at home.
You can just take the whole chunk and plant it, barely covering with soil. It should grow just fine.
You should be aware that apples generally don’t breed true. If you plant this apple tree outside, after years of caring for it you will finally get apples, but the odds are high that the apple won’t taste very good. Also, apple trees are grafted to strong rootstock for a reason, and you won’t have that.
If you are doing this because you find it really cool to grow a tree from your fruit, keep going. Sour apples still make decent jelly. If you are doing it because you really want to grow a lot of tasty apples, you will have a better chance of success if you buy a known apple tree from a nursery.
Everyone is right – unlessntyis was an heirloom variety, you’ll get mystery apples. Maybe good, maybe not so good.
If you want those little sprouts to live, you can plant them in a little pit of soil and care for them. When the plant is ready, transplant into the ground somewhere. Even if the apples turn out not good to eat, the tree will flower beautifully each spring and birds will love that pretty tree.
Toss this. It probably won’t grow fruit, ever.
Plant them, see what happens!
I did this last year and have little apple trees in my yard now! I took the sprouted seeds and let them continue to sprout on a damp paper towel. Once they were bigger, I put them in little pots. I kept them inside all year, watering regularly, keeping them by a sunny window. Out of the 6 I sprouted, 4 survived the winter and then the transfer into the yard in the spring.
Yea, don’t bother. Unless you just want to experiment.
As a child, I planted a seed from a store bought apple and it definitely came up, but the apples were not the same kind.
The resulting tree is still alive, but the apples are small not very tasty.
Just eat the core and be done with it.
Well that’s neat; never seen that before! You can just put them in a little pot and water/fertilize as usual. But keep in mind that if it ever makes it to fruit-bearing age the apples won’t be the same.
Even apples that aren’t good for eating are good for cider. If you’ve got spare land for spare trees, go for it. No one ever got a fancy new variety any other way. The mystery is the fun part.
Apple trees are very odd. I see lots of apple trees in my area that seem to be just random plantings. The apples they grow are small, bitter and apt to get some kind of fungus or mold on them. People ignore them and the fruit just rots on the ground. Every now and again, one will get reddish and it tastes like an apple but not a very good one. I would be annoyed to have a messy, fruit-bearing but not fruit-for-eating tree in my yard taking up space. My plant app says they are Paradise Apples but I do not know if that is a species or just a description.
Apple seeds need stratification to sprout. That is, cold, humid conditions for several months to signal winter. And most apples are chilled between being picked and sold at a store, and the inside of the apple is nice and humid. So the cold stratification process is done for us by the time we buy them, and all we have to do is core the apple, pick out the seeds and put them in a pot! I regularly get half a dozen seeds already sprouting from one apple. I put them in pots and patiently wait. I checked on mine yesterday and after only a week several are already poking through the soil 😁
There is no knowing what kind of apples you’ll get, and it will probably grow big because it’s not on specific dwarfing rootstock, but if you have the space then a) they’re a pretty tree, b) you can always make cider or jelly from the apples, or c) apple wood is great firewood haha.
Good luck, growing trees from seed is super rewarding.
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Yes in fact I grew a macintosh tree in zone 2a. No apples but what ever!
apples don’t reproduce the same plants by seed. All the seeds are genetically different from the parent and from each other. All the apples we eat and grow are grafted/cloned.
Forget these naysayers! Seedling apples are awesome. They’re right, apples cross pollinate and splice genes together to make millions of possible combinations. Will it grow into a red delicious? Absolutely not. What it will become will be fully unique, a variety that likely exists no where else. Even if it doesn’t taste great, it’s pretty fucking cool. And even if it’s not a good eating apple, it will likely make a fascinating complex cider.
You should bonsai it
even if the fruit is bad to grow fresh it might make a good jam or cider!
I guess I will buy an apple tree.
You can literally rinse them off and put them in some potting soil and they have a decent chance of sprouting.
That being said, this is not advisable if your end-goal is to have apples. They likely won’t taste good due to cross-pollination.
That being said, I love the look of a small apple tree in a yard and they are also good bonsai trees.