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Did you know these are likely to be crab apples as the pips usually produce what the rootstock tree is, apple varieties are produced by grafting onto standard rootstocks.
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I did not. I knew about grafting but assumed it was usually similar varieties.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Not necessarily rootstock. Unless is a self pollinator, unlikely, the apple fruits come via cross pollination from others (in groups n-1, n, n+1) so the genetics will be mixed. And usually takes best part of 10 years for a seedling result to get to fruit bearing stage.
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Thanks. Reassuring.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Hopefully I am proved wrong!
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Apparently in France they don't graft apple trees onto rootstocks... I was mentioning some (what were) beautifully trained espalier apple trees near me to a keen gardening friend there, and over the past three years they've had no pruning and have just gone berserk... and she said that to keep espaliers manageable they need to be on dwarf rootstock to stop them just growing vertically up, as these French ones have done. Rather sad to see.
Incidentally, if you're ever in Devon, do go to Rosemoor near Torrington, not least for their espaliers in the fruit garden... but the whole pace is fantastic, at any time of year.
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