Apple seeds from store boughts.

Diana Brewer
by Diana Brewer
Has anyone had luck starting apple seeds from store bought apple seeds? I just ate a Golden Delicious and was wonder about it.

  9 answers
  • Lori Lori on Aug 19, 2017

    I bought some pink lady apples and found seeds starting to sprout in the cores. Planted them and now have 6 tiny apple trees! And one tiny grapefruit tree too.

    But I started out with already sprouting inside the produce.

    • Diana Brewer Diana Brewer on Aug 19, 2017

      Wow! That's pretty cool  took some of the work out of it! I am going to try to grow the seeds I saved from the apple from last night and get a Granny Smith to eat and save the seeds so I can have too types of yellows to start.

      A great lady on here gave me good advice on starting produce like celery,onions,etc. and I now have my first celery sprouting!  I love it..I'm hooked for good!

  • John John on Aug 19, 2017

    If you want an apple tree go to a nursery and by a small or larger tree depending on what you can afford. As for eating them, I eat the whole apple including the seeds and core and throw the stem away. It won't hurt and you'll get the most of nutrition from the apple.

    • Diana Brewer Diana Brewer on Aug 19, 2017

      I just wanted to be a kid again and see what the prize will be  .I usually eat all but the stem too,but I saw those little seeds just begging for a chance to grow,so I saved them  .

  • Shirley Heikkinen Shirley Heikkinen on Aug 19, 2017

    Seeds from a Golden Delicious won't necessarily produce a golden delicious if they do thrive and produce fruit.

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    • Diana Brewer Diana Brewer on Aug 19, 2017

      Oh I realize that,but I had to put a name on it  . I just want to be a kid again,'bout like Christmas morning...lol.Thank you for you input and God bless

  • Jeannie Carle Jeannie Carle on Aug 19, 2017

    I was told many many years ago that if you want to grow apples trees from the seeds (I had apples from out 75 yr old trees) - you need to freeze the apples before planting them. I've not done it yet (I will be next spring) but she was well-versed in those things, so that's what I will do with a Granny Smith from the store and pray it makes Granny Smith apples.

  • John John on Aug 20, 2017

    I would love to plant an apple or peach tree from seed. It's just that I'm afraid I won't live long enough to enjoy them! :D

    • Diana Brewer Diana Brewer on Aug 20, 2017

      John,I sure know where you're coming from! I'm 56 as of June past  .I still want to try though,just for the fun of it.Maybe someone else will reap what I sow,tree wise! Thank you for your reply and God bless.

  • Danielle Odin Danielle Odin on Aug 20, 2017

    Most fruit trees need to be grafted. In other words the seeds you sprout will give you a tree but the fruit will be like a wild apple and sometimes they are not very tasty. The grafting is usually done by using a good root stock and grafting a producing tree onto it. When you buy a fruit tree at the nursery all that has been done for you. It takes years to get a tree to bear good fruit.

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    • Danielle Odin Danielle Odin on Aug 23, 2017

      It wil be a nice tree thatyou can say you grew from seed. Remember the story of Johnny Appleseed?

  • Lori Lori on Aug 20, 2017

    How did you get the celery to grow?

    • Diana Brewer Diana Brewer on Aug 20, 2017

      Hi Lori. Any of the veggies you buy in the store or farmers market that have a root end,ie. celery,green onions,radishes,etc,can be rerooted to grow.When you cut off the root end,place it in a bowl of water with the water only covering the bottom and a little up the sides.What for it to start getting roots and,like my celery,some will sprout on top too.This if from info that others here sent me links to.You can plant your new veggies in a good potting soil and watch them grow,once those roots come out.Hope that helps.

  • Pat Ptasick Pat Ptasick on Aug 25, 2017

    Don't waste your time planting a seed! Go buy a tree of the variety you wish to grow and you will be sure you have the best one for you. If you live in a small plot, buy a dwarf one and in a couple years you will have fruit if you do all the things to get unblemished fruit like the super markets. Remember, you will need to fertilize, spray with poison, use blossom set, spray 2 or 3 more time and you Might get a few good eating apples but it's easier to just select the right apple for your choice of cooking or eating. There are also trees that have more than one type of apple growing on them. Good luck!,


    • Diana Brewer Diana Brewer on Aug 25, 2017

      Hi Pat.Please read the above comments and you will see my reason for choosing seeds. Thank you for the information.