Somehow my apple tree has been impregnated - who is the culprit.
I have two apple trees that I grew from pips, for the last couple of years the larger one has born fruit. I read in a book that because they grew from pips they would never bear fruit (now proven wrong). But does it mean that they couldn't pollenise each other? Did a bird or insect do it after coincedentally being at another apple tree somewhere (would it have to be the same type of apple?), and improbably going directly to mine? I don't suppose that many gardens have apple trees in them
2006-09-01 00:52:18 · 10 answers · asked by Silkie1 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Actually MH the pip (seed) thing did occur to me - I did some voluntary work for an orchard specialising in all the different types (about 3 or 6 thousand as I remember). All breeding was by cuttings grafted onto a common root stock found to be especially resilient to the vagaries of the English weather - so, I wondered if the domesticated apple tree had lost its ability to breed as nature intended.
2006-09-02 00:24:53 · update #1
any bee that has visited a different tree can pollinate yours, my huge apple tree stands alone in my large garden it gets covered in apples every year.........almost ripe now, yum yum
2006-09-01 01:01:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To get an original apple, Bramley etc., it is necessary to graft a cutting from the tree onto a root-stock. Pips will not give fruit which is exactly the same as the mother tree. Such apples are known as "crabs". The most famous "crab" is the Australian apple the Granny Smith - literally from a pip.
2006-09-04 06:23:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you read in the book Apples trees from pips will not bare fruit, did you stop and think exactly where they might come from, if not pips ?? Throw the book away !!
We have lots of apple trees in a mixed fruit orchard ( about 50 trees ) and you get cross polination between varieties and species ( i.e. plums, cherries, pears, apples )
Just enjoy the fruit
2006-09-01 08:06:14 · answer #3 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh my God! This could be the start of an invasion! The trees are fighting back. It has begun in your garden and soon they will spread, firing apples, bananas and grape fruits as weapons! Run for your life! I will contact the resisance and inform them of our new struggle.
2006-09-01 08:45:00 · answer #4 · answered by mick241602 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Johnny Appleseed- I don't know the answer and don't know what a Pip is- but I am happy for you that you have apples. hope you wanted them.
2006-09-01 07:56:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bees
2006-09-01 08:35:03 · answer #6 · answered by Jane S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HAHAHA. Ok. The culprit might be a bee.
2006-09-01 07:58:06 · answer #7 · answered by ODYSSEY1517 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me. I'm the daddy.
2006-09-01 07:54:23 · answer #8 · answered by DB4GTZ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess only mommy knows.
2006-09-01 08:05:11 · answer #9 · answered by tia c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bees travel quite far.........buzzzzz buzzzzz
2006-09-01 07:54:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋