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[microchick]

@CapricornFarm, I forgot to mention. I cut up an apple today and to my surprise two seeds fell out of the 'Pink Lady' and they were germinating!I have never seen that happen before. So off I went looking for a little pot and some potting soil and those two little puppies got planted!

Do you think I have any chance of them actually growing? Like I said, the seeds were from a Pink Lady apple which makes me wonder, if they grow, what type of tree they produce given that a Pink Lady is a grafted tree? Any idea?

Usually the root stock is something that gives the tree the desires size. I have apple and Asian pear trees that were grafted to Quince roost stock. So do you think it will be a standard sized tree?

 

[Beer can]

@CapricornFarm, I forgot to mention. I cut up an apple today and to my surprise two seeds fell out of the 'Pink Lady' and they were germinating!I have never seen that happen before. So off I went looking for a little pot and some potting soil and those two little puppies got planted!

Do you think I have any chance of them actually growing? Like I said, the seeds were from a Pink Lady apple which makes me wonder, if they grow, what type of tree they produce given that a Pink Lady is a grafted tree? Any idea?

Usually the root stock is something that gives the tree the desires size. I have apple and Asian pear trees that were grafted to Quince roost stock. So do you think it will be a standard sized tree?

All depends on IF it was pollinated by a pink lady? They use rootstock for hardiness, and to guarantee what they are grafting will be the same. Hard to tell where that honey bee traveled for the pollen. If you take a cutting from the tree and graft it to another tree or rootstock you will get the same pink lady apple's.
I've always planned on IF any of my trees actually live/grow, grafting some branches on wild apple tree rootstock growing here and then after they take digging them up and replanting. I have successfully grafted branches ( V cut, tightly wrapped with plastic garbage bag strips ) on wild apple trees, unfortunately the deer thought they tasted good.... Lots of vids on YouTube on grafting to branches and rootstock, where I got the idea of using just tightly wrapped plastic bag strip for grafting just v cut them and match up the bark. Had a nova spy tree get girdled by a rodent one winter, couldn't get it successfully re-grafted to the rootstock so I figured just cut the branches off and attach them to a wild tree. Turned out great until two yrs later deer thought those five branches tasted better than the rest ....

 

[microchick]

So IF these two seeds sprout and grow and IF I can raise them to a reasonable height with branches, I can take a branch and graft it to one of the quince trees I have sprouting up from ground roots that took hold after we pulled trees that succumbed to fire blight last year?

Theoretically.

When we pulled the dead trees, we were surprised to discover that the root stock resprouted. I have two clusters of what looks like quince coming up and when I did research on what Stark Bros nursery used for their grafting I thought I read that quince was one of them. I've been babying them along ever since.

 

[Alaskan]

@Beer can still eye deep in snow?

We have been hitting 40 for a week now!

Ground is still frozen, but the snow is melting which means the world is mud.

 

[Beer can]

Dog finally had a solid poop today. I'll probably get her tomorrow if it continues.

Without reading back, not sure the prob,
We had to go through a few feeds till we found one our lab pup was good with. The other feeds were also $$ and grain free, just didn't agree with her.
Nothing worse than a pup/dog with the poops, humans/even babies just crap their pants, don't make a freaking mess on the floor (well I can't say that honestly, have had some kids ........)

 

[Beer can]

@Beer can still eye deep in snow?

We have been hitting 40 for a week now!

Most the snow is gone. Been crappy weather, just here and there warm enough or enough rain to melt the snow. Supposed to be close to 70 this weekend and then 30s daytime and 20s at night next week and lots of rain/ 'wintery mix' ... lol.

 

[Beer can]

Still haven't started any plants though I did walk out into the garden today and saw I have tons of Egyptian walking onions popping up, had some thistle weeds coming up with them so tried to pull one up, just ripped the leaves out of the mud, frozen underneath, think I'll try again when it actually thaws out lol.
I've had a bag of potato onions in our upper cupboard since fall when I dug them up, warm, no growth on them whatsoever, still dormant, super great keepers. Will be replanting them if it ever thaws out.
The blue potatoes and others I've kept for seed, holy crap, foot long masses of eyes on them.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

 

[Alaskan]

Still haven't started any plants though I did walk out into the garden today and saw I have tons of Egyptian walking onions popping up, had some thistle weeds coming up with them so tried to pull one up, just ripped the leaves out of the mud, frozen underneath, think I'll try again when it actually thaws out lol.
I've had a bag of potato onions in our upper cupboard since fall when I dug them up, warm, no growth on them whatsoever, still dormant, super great keepers. Will be replanting them if it ever thaws out.
The blue potatoes and others I've kept for seed, holy crap, foot long masses of eyes on them.

how do those walking onions grow with the ground still frozen!

Well... I guess it must be spring.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Night Misty sleep well