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Posted by thinlittleme (U8176781) on Sunday, 18th March 2012
last october my grandson had a lovely jucy pear and this had some large pips in it so we decided to plant them, we now have six little seeds coming up.
I would like to know do i repot them into there own pots, and would they grow.
and the big question is will they come to any thing.
Regards Sue
If they were apple pips, I would say no. But pears, . . I have no ideas but the pleasure of watching something growing is agood thing for a growing grandsprog. Cheers, Tony.
So growing an apple tree from a pip will be unsuccessful Tony? I've been growing one for a couple of years outside and have been protecting the little thing from the chickens - am I wasting my time - story of my life....
You will not get the identical type of apple tree from a pip from that apple. The apple tree is grafted onto 'rootstock' , but as your pip seedling is of the original strain of apple it will not 'come true'.
I have done the same. Whilst a sprog, I planted a pip and planted the resultant tree. Nothing at all, when I went back 'up North' to see it the new inhabitants of 'our old house' had disposed of it! Cheers, Tony.
Thank you for all your reply's,
I will leave them untill the end of the year and then repot them, Zack will love to do this, he will be pround that they are all his own work,
Thank you Sue
Just to give you a bit of hope, I grew an apple tree from a pip and it regularly produces a crop of pleasant apples which are similar to the original apple.
This year, I am growing about a dozen apple seedlings grown from pips which I aim to eventually use as rootstock. If successful, I will graft on a cutting from either the same or another tree, and in theory that will come 'true'. Cross fingers! I'm also growing a few quince from pips, and believe that, unlike apple, they may be a more accurate propagation. Long term experiment, needless to say!
Ah, what a bummer! Hope you didn't travel up to God's own part of the country just to see your apple tree. I'm hardly a sprog, so won't hold my breath waiting for my tree to grow then!
Hello Paul, I have grafted medlar onto hawthorn, but I have never succeeded with my grafts onto the quince suckers on the parent tree, maybe I should start from seed as you suggest to get more suitable quince rootstock.
My first grafted specimen bore fruit last year in Cheshire, but the owner did not know about bletting.
Bletting?
The medlar fruits must be left for about two weeks to go soft/blet before they are edible; my friend knew of medlars from the literary references but not of the practical aspect of consumption
My elderly neighbour has an absolutely fantastic apple tree, loaded with apples each year. As she is getting on, we helped her pick them last year, and she told us the tree grew from a pip taken from an apple her son had when he was a child. He is in his mid fifties now. They really are delicious.
I believe the original Granny Smith was the result of a pip!
Well you get what comes. Some will be good, I suspect that more will be indifferent or downright unpleasant, but don't forget all good apples originally came from a pip!
Lottie
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