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Old 14-March-2008, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Ivan Viehoff View Post
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.
So I'm growing a few mutts, heh? And like a typical mutt; I'll only know what we have when they grow up? Hadn't thought about it before, but they have yet to flower.
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