apple pips

[Tohellwithweeds]

i was wondering if i was to plant an apple pip would i get an apple tree??? i suppose it would take years to grow into a tree but i was just wondering  ::) ::) please don't laugh only i was eating one earlier and thought i wonder....... 

[Tohellwithweeds]

[manicscousers]

we did it when our son was born, made quite a tree in 16 years, fruit was lousy and it got a disease and rotted  ;D
interesting experiment though  :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

It works, but it's pot luck what you end up with. A lot of traditional varieties started off in exactly this way, but the result, after a good many years unless you bud it onto a dwarfing rootstock, may not be worth having. Bramleys, for instance, started with a pip planted by a Mary Ann Brailsford in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. The house was subsequently bought by a Matthew Bramley, and it was propagated by Messrs. Merryweather. They named it after Mr. Bramley, sold it commercially, and it's still all over the place.

[silverbirch]

You have to kiss a lot of frogs to get a prince though!  The best you could probably hope for is a decent crab apple.

When people are trying for new dahlia varieties from seed they reckon on a sucess rate of less than 1%.