how old does my apple tree have to be until it starts to grow apples?

Question

i planted it in my science class because my teacher has a special light that acts as a substitute for sunlight and told my class that we can bring in tree seeds to grow them. i planted it around early december.

Answer 1

The fruit of an apple tree grows on two year old wood. They won't put out any blooms until they are at least 2. They typically don't produce much until they are at least 4-5 years old. You should remove any apples that it may have the first year it is in the ground when you buy a tree, so that the tree can concentrate on getting it's root system established. If you planted it from a seed, you may not see anything for several years.

Certain varieties are not self fertile. These will need another variety of apple, or crabapple to pollinate. Red Delicious is one in particular. The Red Delicious is a hybrid. If you plant the seeds from one, you will not get a Red Delicious tree, but instead will get one of the parent trees that it was cross pollinated from. Usually a crabapple.

Answer 2

it rather is call grafting. you narrow back off a small piece of branch off an apple tree and you graft this branch right into a like minded apple tree. this methodology is very complicated. you are able to't advance apples from apple seeds, in case you should there could be apple wood everywhere. i do no longer care how plenty you bury the seeds. they gained't propagate.

Answer 3

I regret to tell you if you planted it from the seed of an apple you bought in a store or an orchard it will in all likelyhood never get apples. Apples today are mostly hybridized and grafted to make new trees. Seeds of apples are usually sterile and will not produce fruit. Maybe one out of ten will but it will probably be a crabapple looking type of apple--not the apple you planted it from. But to answer you question, it will take several years to be mature enough to produce fruit if it ever going to.

Answer 4

It's not going to grow fruit unless there is another apple tree nearby to pollinate it. Fruit trees must be planted in multiples of at least two in order to bear fruit. I'm surprised your science teacher hasn't told you that.

Answer 5

You need another tree, Honey! Eve won't do anything, (now) without Adam! Have you put it in your yard, yet? How tall, so far? Good luck!

Answer 6

Probably when it is six feet tall which should be around 2 years. Of course I am guessing

Answer 7

thats a good question, i just wanted to see what others had for an answer, thank you