Post #1511286
2026-01-24 15:07 UTC
You can’t take the seed of a tasty apple, plant it and expect the tree to have similarly tasting apples. If you want to duplicate a tree, you need to take a twig and graft it on top of an existing tree.
Source: MinuteEarth on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIajCqcvTg8)
[Edit: Previously, before I remembered that this video exists, I couldn’t remember the correct word for “grafting”. Hence Sidyctism II.’s response.
Replies (5)
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@prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-24 15:49
I love that grafting is real and it works. It always seems like straight scifi to me.
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@Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-01-24 15:08
Grafting?
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@zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2026-01-24 15:21
Well, you can just buy apple trees from a nursery, it's what farmers do.
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@jaybone@lemmy.zip 2026-01-24 16:55
When grafting, do you need to remove any of the original branches? Or will the tree grow two different types of apples? Or some kind of hybrid?
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@driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2026-01-24 15:32
They're also soil, water and other conditions. Doubt a tree planted on a city is going to have the nutrients to give you tasty fruits