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Old 14-March-2008, 12:13 PM
Ivan Viehoff Ivan Viehoff is offline
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Originally Posted by farmerjumperdon View Post
I've also got a few Braeburns my kids planted from seeds. Amazingly, they are hanging in there for their 3rd year. I don't think they are supposed to be able to survive our winters, but I'm not telling themn that.
Although I don't doubt that the seeds came out of a Braeburn, I think it is unlikely that what you are growing are Braeburns. Apples do not come true from seed, except rarely when you get a freak seed that thinks it is a cutting. Trees grown from pips are known as "wildlings", and two seeds from the same fruit can produce quite different trees because of the genetic diversity of the material in the seeds. The fruit they produce is frequently not even edible, though you can be lucky.
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