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Help With Apple seeds #7724933
11/23/22 11:05 AM
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I don't care if they don't grow true to form

I need to get some of my Crab apple seeds to sprout

The wet paper towel trick in the fridge for three weeks didn't work.


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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: 330-Trapper] #7725059
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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: 330-Trapper] #7725064
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It didn't work because 3 weeks is extremely inadequate for the amount of time it takes them to break dormancy and be able to germinate. It will take several months to do that.


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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: 330-Trapper] #7725097
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I take my seeds (mine are broken down into smaller bags and labeled as to whet tree they came from), I air dry them for several days and chuck them in the freezer. I put mine in there just before deer season. I will take them out in March and stick them in those little peat moss pre-formed pellet things that come in a black tray with the clear plastic lid and let Mother Nature do her thing. I then take all the one that came up and transplant them in one of my raised beds. I will leave them there until they are about 2 feet tall and then transplant them in the woods complete with a 6 foot tall wire cage around them. I actually tend to loose more trees to mice than anything else.


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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: 330-Trapper] #7725098
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I’ve just planted them in potting soil, and while not a large amount came up, it did work. Raised them in pots till pencil sized, then grafted pencil size prunings to the rootstock. Worked well and was a fun project!


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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: beaverpeeler] #7725124
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Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
It didn't work because 3 weeks is extremely inadequate for the amount of time it takes them to break dormancy and be able to germinate. It will take several months to do that.

^this... but I would say about 2 months


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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: 330-Trapper] #7725174
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Every plant seed will have its own amount of cold stratification needed to break dormancy. I've had rose hip seeds take two years to germinate.


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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: 330-Trapper] #7725244
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Well then two you tubers are liars

Thanks for the help and ideas


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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: 330-Trapper] #7725276
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Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
Well then two you tubers are liars

Thanks for the help and ideas

Lol try to freeze the whole crabapple for about 3 weeks then split crabapple in half thawed out of course place In ziplock with a damp paper towel leaving the bag cracked open for fresh air ones seeds germinate remove from fridge have starile potting ready let seed bag acclimate then plant to dampened soil. Good luck

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Also if you have any crabapple left on you're tree you could try the some method doing a few every so often so they have been going through a freeze thaw cycle at different rates.

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I actually went out of my way this fall to scrounge some rotten apples off trees that had certain characteristics that I liked such as size and especially the ones that stay on the tree all winter and provide a winter time food source for the critters.


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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: 330-Trapper] #7725321
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I've done peach pits in a zipper bag with dirt in the fridge for a couple months.


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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: Giant Sage] #7725354
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Originally Posted by Giant Sage
Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
Well then two you tubers are liars

Thanks for the help and ideas

Lol try to freeze the whole crabapple for about 3 weeks then split crabapple in half thawed out of course place In ziplock with a damp paper towel leaving the bag cracked open for fresh air ones seeds germinate remove from fridge have starile potting ready let seed bag acclimate then plant to dampened soil. Good luck

Removing the seeds from the split apple?


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I would leave seeds in spit apple till they sprout then remove gently to plant in seeding pot plant appleportion but you may get more than one seedling in that case you could try to separate or just cull the less desired seedling- seedlings.[list]
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Originally Posted by Giant Sage
I would leave seeds in spit apple till they sprout then remove gently to plant in seeding pot plant appleportion but you may get more than one seedling in that case you could try to separate or just cull the less desired seedling- seedlings.[list]
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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: 330-Trapper] #7725571
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Good luck 330. Keep us posted on your progress.

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Re: Help With Apple seeds [Re: beaverpeeler] #7726094
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Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
It didn't work because 3 weeks is extremely inadequate for the amount of time it takes them to break dormancy and be able to germinate. It will take several months to do that.



X2. They need stratification, which is like 3 months of cold temps. You guys should know that apple trees dont bear true for the seeds. This means you need to do a graft if you found an apple tree you like, just saying.

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Originally Posted by MattLA
Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
It didn't work because 3 weeks is extremely inadequate for the amount of time it takes them to break dormancy and be able to germinate. It will take several months to do that.



X2. They need stratification, which is like 3 months of cold temps. You guys should know that apple trees dont bear true for the seeds. This means you need to do a graft if you found an apple tree you like, just saying.

Nonsense as usual. Scott, you need to trust me, I mean if you can't trust me who can ya trust? What you do is freeze the seeds till March. Then you take them out and put them between cheek and gum. You keep them there till May, and then plant. People like me and Teeter aren't always swaping tobacco, we're conservationist! grin grin


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