I have an apple tree, that I grew from a pip, will it produce apples?

Question

The tree is now nearly 4 feet tall, I have also grown two more seedlings from other apple pips, what would I have to do to cause them to produce apples?.

Answer 1

best method is poliination.
Two factors should be considered when choosing which variety of apple tree is correct for your garden - taste and pollination.
Pollination is the method by which apple blossom receives pollen from another variety and goes on to produce an apple. Ignoring much of the advice in many gardening books, magazines and television programs, many gardeners successfully grow a single apple tree in their gardens. Why do they succeed - the answer is the very mobile bee. Bees will fly literally miles to find the best source of pollen and in this way, a single apple tree can easily be pollinated by an apple tree a mile or more away.

So, if you live in a reasonably populated area, you can be almost certain that your single apple tree will be pollinated successfully by your neighbour's apple trees. If you try a single apple tree in your garden and it is not pollinated for some reason, the solution is to buy a partially trained cordon or espalier tree later, and this will ensure pollination whilst taking up very little room.

In less populated areas, or those with few surrounding gardens, it is best to plant apple trees in groups of two or more varieties which flower at about the same time. Consult the table on each variety above (see the column flowering / pollination), and you can be certain that where the flowering periods of two varieties match (early, middle or late), they will pollinate each other. Remember too, that many of the ornamental crab apple trees (John Downie and Malus Hillieri for example) make very good pollinating partners
Apples grow from the flowers that bloom on an apple tree in the spring. For a flower to develop into an apple, the pollen that is produced by one flower must be transferred to another flower. Cross-pollination occurs when pollen is moved from the flowers on one apple tree to the flowers on another. This most often happens when bees come to the apple flowers to collect nectar and pollen and fly from one tree to another. Though an apple tree may produce some fruit without cross-pollination, it will yield a lot more fruit if cross-pollination occurs. This is why an orchard can't be made up of only one apple variety. At least two different kinds of apple trees are needed for cross pollination.

Some apple trees bloom much earlier than others. Usually, apples that produce ripe fruit early in the season are also early bloomers while those that fruit later in the season also bloom later. It is helpful for cross-pollination to plant apple varieties that bloom at the same time near each other in your orchard. Also, pollination is helped by not planting two trees of the same variety next to each other. Instead, alternate varieties in your rows.

Answer 2

It's unlikely. From my experience, the apple tree that grows from the pips I've planted produces an apple very similar to the parent apple. However, while it may look similar, it may not necessarily taste identical to the original apple. That's because I didn't grow my apple tree on a crabapple rootstock like in the orchard, and I didn't pick the apple when it was still unripe, inject it with anti-ripening gas, store it for a year or two, and then reripen it with ethylene gas. Plus, there's the problems of mutation, hybridization and lack of hybrid vigor.

Answer 3

Apple trees need to be pollinated, some apple trees can be pollinated from the same species, but many can't.

Flowering crabapple trees are considered a "universal pollinator" of apples.

You need at least 2 trees to make apples.

Also, the tree might be a little young to flower, still.

Answer 4

It could produce apple but not what you dream about. Most of the trees are grafted (shoot on stock) to select the best fruit (from shoot) on the best tree (stock roots). Good luck in any case.

Answer 5

If you have more apple trees near (or not so near but have the agents of polinization working efficiently...) its possible that you get your apples. Treat your tree well, give it some adequate fertilizing, and, most of all BE VERY PATIENT !!!! These kind of things take their time and, for we waiting for, It´s a looong time...( or seems to be...) God Luck!

Answer 6

Er, yes - where else do you think apple trees come from? Just wait until the tree is mature and then it will produce apples. No need to do anything. Nature's good like that...

Answer 7

They have to be pollinated - bees work! Any other apple trees nearby?

Answer 8

They better!!

But do you have a male and a female tree?

Answer 9

yes