Flowering apple seedling

We like to grow random apple seedlings at my house. We have a new one flowering this year. It's five years old and I know that because that was the year my son was born and I had no time for it so I threw its pot out by the driveway and forgot about it but it thrived on no water and rooted itself into the hard packed gravel. It has grown straight up like a pole which is helpful since big lateral branches would block the driveway and the sidewalk into our house. And now it has a cluster of blossoms on its tiptop! I'm excited to see what kind of fruit it produces!

These seedlings come from the seeds of apples you eat? Or do you buy tiny starts from a nursery?

Rachel Lindsay wrote:These seedlings come from the seeds of apples you eat? Or do you buy tiny starts from a nursery?

Seedlings from the apples we eat from the store. We grow half a dozen each year and just STUN them and one or two of those survive to go out in our "orchard" space. We have about six trees now that are large and healthy. One has fruit for several years now- tiny deliciously sweet crabapple type fruit. And we have two blooming for the first time this year. I'm pretty sure the other is going to be a crabapple but this one has larger more white blossoms.

I'd like to start collecting some seeds from the abandoned (100+year old) orchards in my area and get some of those genetics since I think most grocery store apples get a lot of crabapple genetics mixed in since giant orchards plant crabapples to help with pollination.

Excited to see how they turn out for you Jenny!