Apple Seedlings

[THE LLC]

I've got several rootstocks coming from Cummins this Spring to do some more grafting but I am also going to start some seedlings from store-apple seeds. I have enough seeds stratifying to start 18 seedlings. I did this about five years ago and grew one really nice seedling apple that I grew in a pot for two years then planted in the yard. I let it grow a year in the ground and then in the spring of 2015 grafted three known varieties onto three limbs that I had cut back. Those grafts grew like crazy and I now have a three-in-one going. It worked so well that I want to try it on a bigger scale for the farm. I'll try to remember and post a few pictures as I go through it.

 

[Chainsaw]

I am very interested in growing trees from seeds, I look forward to hearing the details of your progress.

 

[Hunter_Dan]

Depending on what you're trying to do, you can also just plant "rootstock" and let them grow into full trees. It's a great way to get cheap wildlife trees with some certainty on some of the key factors (e.g. hardiness, size, soil type tolerance).

 

[THE LLC]

Doing that too, Dan. Actually doing that to build a stool bed to grow my own rootstocks. These seedlings will be grafted over to known varieties at two years old.

 

[Hunter_Dan]

Good stuff! Sounds like you've got an operation going on