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You can use seedlings for rootstock if you want 20+ foot trees. It also may take up to 10 years to get good apples. More likely 6 years. Trees will live a long time tho. You can cut tree height an time till first apple by using good rootstock.

Its time to plant now while there dormant. Also most bugs that harm apples nest in the ground under the tree so letting chickens around the trees helps with bug control.

Buy one bigger tree an the root stock an make your own grafts. A seed tree will take 7 to 10 years to see what the apples will be like. If you graft you can make trees that have apples in 4 years an know what you will get from the start. I have one of each, gold D, Red D an a granny smith. I...