Apple trees from seed?

[loneranger]

I ate an apple other day that had seeds starting to sprout in it,, so I planted them in a pot. They are coming up now. I know it will take a L-o-n-g , time to make a tree, but is it possible? Possibly though being some kind of hybrid or somehting it will not work? Just wondering.

 

[JNRBRONC]

It will grow.

It will most likely be a hybrid.

It will take a long time to grow to a fruiting tree.

The biggest problem I see is that you won't have the benefits of a known rootstock. Grafting onto a rootstock increase vigor, can prevent certain diseases and controls the size of the tree at maturity.

For planting as a wildlife tree, why not plant it? I hunt the edge of a pasture that has half a dozen "wild" volunteer apple trees in it and they successfully set fruit. Kind of ugly apple "bushes" instead of trees, but the deer don't care. That is until I zip an arrow into them. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif