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Gala Apple pips

paulleaman66paulleaman66 Posts: 6
in Fruit & veg
Well I'm balled over this year.  I saw something on Youtube just after Christmas.  It was of this Spanish guy growing lemon trees from actual pips.  Well i thought really.  One evening about 5 weeks ago I was making some fruit salad with fresh fruit and thought I will have a go at this but with Gala Apple Pips and an old lemon i found in the fridge and thought nothing will come of it.  How wrong was it.  I have four lovely gala pip seedlings growing in a seed tray  and two lemon pips just sprouting in the jar. 

Does anyone have any suggestions on potting on the apple seedlings 

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  • paulleaman66paulleaman66 Posts: 6
    Thanks for your advise and information 
    I shall keep them growing on as best i can for a year or two see what happens .. 
    The lemons might be a winner though 
    thanks again 
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    A peculiarity of citrus fruits is that a pip sometimes produces two or more seedlings.  One will be a mixture of the parent plants, as with apples. The other comes from cells other than the embryo, so it is, in effect, vegetative reproduction, and will be a clone of the mother plant.  You can't tell which is which until they fruit, and not even then if they are very similar.  But one of them at least will be worth keeping.
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