Is it true that a pip grown from any apple will produce a different variety of apple?

Question

Billy Butthead - The idea is that I ask a question and you try to give a sensible answer, if not, it becomes pointless and makes you look stupid.

Answer 1

Pollination in apple is to be studied for the answer.--

Apples are self-incompatible and must be cross-pollinated to develop fruit. ( you got your answer here, any sensible reader with smattering of botanical knowledge will get it here it self)

Pollination management is an important component of apple culture.

Before planting, it is important to arrange for pollenizers, cultivars of apple or crab apple that provide plentiful, viable and compatible pollen.

Orchard blocks may alternate rows of compatible cultivars, or may have periodic crab apple trees, or grafted-on limbs of crab apple.

Some cultivars produce very little pollen, or the pollen is sterile, so these are not good pollenizers. Quality nurseries have pollenizer compatibility lists.

Growers with old orchard blocks of single cultivars sometimes provide bouquets of crab apple blossoms in drums or pails in the orchard for pollenizers. Home growers with a single tree, and no other cultivars in the neighbourhood can do the same on a smaller scale.

During the flowering each season, apple growers usually provide pollinators to carry the pollen.

Honeybee hives are most commonly used, and arrangements may be made with a commercial beekeeper who supplies hives for a fee.

Orchard mason bees are also used as supplemental pollinators in commercial orchards.

Home growers may find these more acceptable in suburban locations because they do not sting.

Some wild bees such as carpenter bees and other solitary bees may help.

Bumble bee queens are sometimes present in orchards, but not usually in enough quantity to be significant pollinators.

Seeds of any plant that has been cross pollinated with pollen from an unknown/ known source will not breed true. A pip from such a plant / fruit is most likely to develop in to a different variety .

Therefore , Many of the fruit trees are propagated by grafting ; it ensures consistence in quality of the fruit.

link shows an apple flower being pollinated-
http://www.vancouverurbanagriculture.ca/images/Bee%20and%20apple%20flower.jpg

I hope this is sensible enough!

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

No, the only true pip was Miss Crabtree from the original Little Rascals, just ask Chubby, Jackie, and Farina;) LOL

Answer 4

Not necessarily, but a lot of commercial apple varieties are hybrids and won't breed true.

Answer 5

Not necessarily, but probably.

If the apple is a hybrid, it won't breed true. It's the same with roses or camellias.

Answer 6

Well, in that case why not a pear.
It's possible to transplant a pear to an apple tree.

Answer 7

If that apple is from a graft, yes