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Cloning Apple Trees

Have you ever eaten a really great tasting apple and wished you could have a tree full of them in your backyard? Or, maybe you want to reproduce an old apple tree that was special for some reason (planted by grandparents, great producer, etc.) You might think it would be as simple as saving seeds from that apple and germinating them. There’s actually a lot more to the process than you may think. Unfortunately, apples grown from seed will not be like the parent. About 1 in every 80,000 apple trees grown from seed will be as good as the apples we are used to eating. Apple trees grown from seed usually have small and inferior quality fruit.

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