What Happens When You Grow an Apple Tree FROM SEED, 9 Years Later! 

I grew a bunch of apple trees from seeds I found sprouting inside pink lady apples. So far 3 have borne fruit, 2 are full size apples but one attracts lots of insects and the fruit are covered in bug bites, the other is right next to it and had no insect damage and the fruit was hard/crisp with a wonderful complex flavor, very sweet but tart and some pleasant spicy flavors. The third made really bright red crabapples that were kind of bitter but I'm ok with leaving them for the birds to eat in winter. I tried some nectarine pits and got 1 tree, it makes a hard green fruit that never seems to ripen, they stay green and hard. A peach tree volunteered out of our compost and makes very good peaches now that I've moved it to a better location.

Oooh i would love to see those apples in a big bowl on my kitchen counter! I love fruit that is snack size! You should totally market that apple. I could see it take off kind of like those mandarins called"Cuties".

Growth from seed it takes a lot of time, but worth it.

His intro startled awake my dog who was sleeping next to me 😂

Never seen an apple that small before,it's pretty amazing what your garden can produce...awesome video👍🏻

awesome video James. I am an amateur rose hybridizer. Working with nature to produce a better thing than you started with is so extremely exciting. I grow Honeycrisp and Fuji apples. Right now I have more Fuji's since the Honeycrisps are now done. Thank you for your channel. You and Big Tuck keep it up. Have a great winter.

My daughter (4) and I love your videos. We are planning on planting a Jonagold apple tree soon, thanks and much love.

Your enthusiasm is wonderful! I would love to have a plot of dirt to experiment with. Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden with us.

I'm going full steam ahead with my gardening! I started last July, and am going to be planting citrus trees and apple trees from seed, with the intention of grafting known scions onto them. I'll leave a natural branch, to know what the seed produced, but I will get fruit from the scions first, I expect. I'm so excited!

Blessings to all!

I had a lime shrub grown from seed in my mom's garden when I was a student, it produced fruit just one season, but the limes were very acidic and dry, I seriously wanted it to produce juicy super acidic limes and I had prepared the soil and compost for the next season, but it was killed 😐. I will have to grow another lime shrub in my house after watching this haha.

All I can say is “ perfect “ nothing like a small sweet apple not too much just enough. You have inspired me to be patient and wait for my perfect little apples that I will try to grow from seed as well thank you

I wish apple will grow in Philippines😅 I never tasted and seen a crispy green apple yet, first time on this video. Mostly in the market is like cotton🤣

Great introduction of the Prigioni Apple. It's a crap shoot when growing apple seeds and you've done a great job explaining not only the time and risks involved but also the enjoyment when success happens.

Hi James, I share your enthusiasm, yes, Christmas came early for me, , my 11 year old apple tree grown from seed actually has three the first three flowers ever, Unexpected, I saw a bumble bee on the tree and on close inspection there was a flower.

I planted sevral seeds ten years ago some have fruited nicely but a couple flowered for the first time this year But the blossoms froze so i need to wait another year Its rewarding wait and you can always use your seetree for grafting stock I really want to try that

I planted a small heritage apple tree grove this year. Can’t wait for all the apples!

Just purchased my first 3 blueberry plants, going to grow them in my apartment and baby them until i buy a home and can plant my own food forreest. Thank you for who you are.

I've decided to do the same thing. I know it will not produce good apples for eating but I am hoping for good cider apples. After reading about all the different cider apples out there I noticed most of them weren't much different than the crabapples I find growing in an abandoned field or hedgerow out in the country. I've always been told that they make the best hard cider. I'll find out in a couple of years.

Thanks so much for the update about your apple trees from seeds. I have 2 I am growing since 1 year. I am just impressed that I got them through the winter in Tahoe. They both look strong. I hope for the best.

what i noticed in my garden is that a lot of the smaller, runts of the batch of seeds (vegetables and fruits) i grow almost always have a sweeter, or more intense flavor. But i used to feel down and out when i saw how small they turned out until i tasted them.

The tiny apple is fabulous!

So cool. I had crabapples in my yard growing up, so I’d love to have something different. Its nice to see someone’s garden from the same area (state). I am in South Jersey near Philly. Keep the videos coming! 😃

I grew a mango tree from a seed. 23 years later I got my first crop of mangos. They are large and sweet and just a little fibrous. It came from a Hayden tree.

I'm just now starting to germanate some apple, and lemon seeds! I hope they do welll...

This may be stupid, but space permitting, you could hand-pollinate Prigioni One with your Bella on dwarf, and then take the seeds from that crossing, grow them on to seedlings, and graft them on your dwarf (or optionally, space permitting again, wait until the seedlings produce, and then graft the good ones onto your dwarf).

Great explainer on seeds that don't grow true - that's applicable to many, many kinds of commercial food seeds.

That's so cool! I've always loved the idea of doing this, just seeing what you'd get, but I'm not currently in the space to do it. I so appreciate living vicariously through your experience. Thanks for sharing! Do apple flavors mature as the plant does? Probably not?

I am growing from seed for a few reasons, one being that I can select for a tree that grows best in a specific spot. I am looking for a tree that tolerates black walnut and that's not a characteristic that's been selected for with commercial root stocks. If you don't like the fruit, you can always graft on something that you want or keep it as an ornamental and pollinator. There will be a lot of variety in the seed grown trees, so it's fun to see what comes up. You can also use the trees to improve your grafting and pruning skills.

Learning lots of things about gardening. We are looking forward to more videos.

I found wild apple tree in the meadow and the apples are amazing.

People complain fruit takes years to grow from seed but my dwarf apples planted in 2015 are close to 12 feet tall and yet to flower. Were supposed to fruit in 2-3 years. Only my quince tree put in fruited timely so far and a mulberry. Apple trees did come with the house, they did not spread babies on their own but are full size trees (like the mother Bramley in England dying now from honey fungus- absolutely monstrously large). The deer, cotton tail rabbits, and artic hares eat young trees if not protected.

Thanks for Sharing! I always plant my Apple seeds to see if they ever develop into apple trees. I plant them on Forest Service Land 🍎 🌳 🍎 🌳 🍏 Liked 👍. Shared on MeWe 👍. Shared on Facebook 👍. Saved on RU-vid 👍.

I wish more garden people had this mind set !!! Your a legend! Granted I only had this same mind set beacuse there was no photo period cannabis available that would finish in my area before I got to work 😅

Awesome video, how about air layering a couple high branches so you could share some of your namesake trees?

I'm learning so much from your videos great info

That's really cool. I would love to make a pie out of the apples. Can you think back to all the apple varieties you like to buy and narrow it down to 3 of 4 that you think the seed came from?

Tuck is soooo cute! 🙂

Thank you James

I've got cedar rust on my dwarf apple. Any ideas on a natural way to get rid of it? I bought 2 more apple trees that we planted a few weeks ago (they do better here if we plant in fall) and supposedly it has qualities that fend off the 3 different "rusts" that affect apple trees in our area (TN)

Let's go!!!

I have grew a apple tree with a yellow and red apple seed it turned out a red and yellow with orange in the middle and tastes like both in the middle two seeds became one seed!

Which nursey do you suggest for fruting trees?

How do you keep the squirrels off of your fruit trees?

Wonder if you could buy or make a custom apple corer for those Prigioni apples cos those would be perfect bite sized treats.

I want a mini apple tree aweee it’s so cute

Hahahah 😂 always with a was up and high energy vibes very 😎

If you take a bus or graft onto the one not flowering. Perhaps doing it in reverse. You'll get a world of surprises. Production will kick in. In non-productive or use a non-productive onto a productive tree. You'll be happy by the outcome.

Bless your knowledge

Hi James & Tuck I enjoyed watching the video 👍🏾♥️

You inspire! Thank you for your enthusiasm. Do you spray your fruit trees? If so, what do you use? I've tried concentrated garlic with mixed results.

I'd love to have some Prigioni apples..wonder how it tastes...😊

Brilliant video

I wonder what would hapen if he took a seed from his Pregioni apple and grew it into a tree. I wonder what the fruit would be like 🤔

Thanks for the info

wow many fruits congrats!

The little bby apples 🍎

My granny smith apple grown from seed bear a tiny fruits like the size of a cherry.

a tree of any kind isn't a waste to grow. now you have root stalk to graft onto, organic matter to chip up and spread around your garden or make dry chips to smoke meat with or fire wood and if you don't cut it completely down it will give years of benefits with new growth annually. I have 2 apple tree's that grew in my compost. one has tiny apples the other has about walnut size apples and the squirrels love them, free food is awesome to have because they eat me out of house and home buying them dry roasted peanuts during the winter. lol yes I spoiled them. but they are worth it they planted me 3 English walnut tree's and this year the first one they planted has a walnut on it. just one, it's only 3 or 4 years old and growing in the shade of a huge poplar tree. plus the squirrels warn the birds at the feeders when the sparrow hawks come around. they are worth the food they eat so i don't mind sharing the volunteer apples. the birds planted the black berries we all enjoy and 4 mulberry trees. what i miss is my rabbit he would prune all the old canes in the raspberry patch by eating them and always left the new growth alone and now i have to cut them. Mr Snookum's was a master gardener, who knew how helpful a rabbit could be in the garden. plus the fertilizer distributed is a bonus and it wont burn your plants. Got to love nature and how masterfully it all works together.

BEAUTIFULL

The Prigioni apple ,,,,,,,,,, now that’s gotta nice ring.Since you yearly trim the top portion of the tree,will you ever consider parting with any scion wood,especially for your followers?

Bare root decease resistant dwarf tree for zone 9 😄ok got it !❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😅

Your own apple seeds. I live in Florida. I would love some.

Hi James...do all apples have to cross pollinate? If so what does the Prigioni cross pollinate with? How does that work...is the flavor always the same? It looks lovely.

what are some fruit tree companies you recommend?

Love your channel. I planted a couple of trees from cortland seeds from an organic orchard, will my apples be cortland?

Its all thanks to the tree apple to grow this new varent of apples.

Would you not get a better fruit by thinning them out?

Do we need to use a fertiliser for growing Apple trees?

Thx 🇺🇸🐻✌🏻

I have 4 apple trees i just got this year. They put out fruit this year but are small. Will they start getting bigger as years go by? Should I take them off so the tree grows

Awesome

How did you created this variety of apple?

Have you tried thinning the Prigioni apples early to increase their size?

Do you spray your apple trees? We haven't and we lost so much useful fruit.

We're do you recommend getting a apple with good genetics and good selection of types I live in evansville indiana

i wish i could ask some scions of your apple variety

do you have any honey bees?

Is there anyway to get a cutting of that tree?

I planted apple seeds in wild areas. Better that than no food at all

So if you plant a Appleseed each with have their own phenotype?

Amazing 🖤🥀

Crab apple

Hey James do U grow lemons. I know u have oranges but my Meyer lemon isn’t growing in ny. Thx.

Does your apple have seeds. I would plant them so your breeding apples that are more suited for your climate. 😂 i planted my own grown apple, no fruit yet.😊

Are you from Jersey, the island?

I've tried several times but none of my seedlings ever survive the winter--zone 5b.

What no seed sales?

Where do u live ? I have to come and take seeds or plant cutting

How do I become a member?

Living in LA from the time I was conceived from 1989, I have always planted the seeds of my apples. None of them ever make it past sapling stage. Potted, drained, in the ground, water much, water little, direct sunlight, indirect. It doesn't matter. They'll never make it.

Tuck didn't get any apples. If he is like my dogs, he likes them. Does He?

I don't understand how you can take a seed or even one bare root tree and have apples grow. Don't the flowers need to be fertilized by another tree to make fruit?

Xoxo.

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Aren't those crab apples?

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This like strawberry apple..

Sell me a graft 🤷🏽‍♂️😎

James, I sent you a message on Facebook that you might get a kick out of.