Apple trees are hugely popular, and thousands of apple cultivars exist worldwide. Most apple trees planted nowadays are grafted, but you can grow an apple tree from seed if you so desire. The main ...

Growing apple trees from seed isn't hard, but it is an exercise in patience. Getty Images Have you ever driven out to the country for the requisite apple picking fall activity before coming home to ...

Seemingly everyone’s favorite fruit snack, the apple has a long history that can be traced back thousands of years to Central Asia, where the domestic apple’s wild ancestor can still be found today.

Suppose you start your own apple orchard on the cheap. You harvest the seeds from a single apple that you love and plant them in the ground. Next spring, six apple tree seedlings come up — success! A ...

Ever try growing an apple tree from a seed? In this time lapse, we demonstrate how a seed was stratified after extraction from a typical apple all the way to early plant. The pips were taken out of a ...

If I am growing an apple tree from seed, should I start it outside or inside in a pot? If inside in a pot, when should I put it outside? The first year, do I remove all of the apples, or just thin ...

My children have grown tiny apple trees from seeds. I'd like to give them the opportunity to plant them outdoors. Any suggestions? Advanced Master Gardener Teri Bickmore says: The first thought that ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...

How exciting to think of a full-size tree locked up within each seed still clinging to the branches of sugar maples, hornbeams, oaks, sycamores and other trees at the end of summer. It was with such ...