Fuji apple seedlings after 20 days

Seedlings doing well

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Education

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• Fuji
• Apple
• Seedlings
• Seed
• Germination

[5Language]

Any updates man?

[midevilone]

@5Language no, I only ended up with a couple that made it, because I got a little zealous with fertilizer too early and burnt some of them and then one of our dogs jumped up on the bed and decided to chew on them. I'm gonna give it a go here in a few days, and try to document the whole process for everyone

[TTLM77]

Those seedlings look great, but i hope you're not banking on having fuji fruit from them. Most apple seedlings won't come true to resemble their parents. Hope you're lucky and get one that fruits closely to the real deal. If you can, its better to graft onto these seedlings in a year or two.

[midevilone]

@TTLM77 we have 5 acres and we have 12 fruit trees as of now.  I plan on planting a large orchard over the next few years.

[jrock99618]

It's sad because you don't know if they'll bear fruit or not due to cross pollination. I have an apple tree that's been growing from a seed I planted and it about four years old now and is only three feet high and has slowed in growth and it auks because I'm not sure itll bear fruit

[midevilone]

@jrock99618 Are you in the country or a more urban environment?

[midevilone]

@gcornum I'm with you on that, but I'm a gambler, and you never know what kind of apple they will bear.

[midevilone]

@TheRastaRick I literally just placed them in water in the windowsill. I think the first attempt I just got really lucky with seeds that had already started germinating in the apple.

[TheRastaRick]

On 0:15 secs you said the one on the left germinated 1st, overnight. What method did you use to germinate your seeds?

[gcornum]

All you're going to get from that exercise is rootstock. If you want a Fuji, it has to be a clone(graft) from another Fuji.