Growing Apple Trees from Seed - 6 Years Old

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Growing Apple Trees from Seed - 6 Years Old
I started these Gala Apple Trees grown from seeds (out of store bought Gala Apples) on 1/1/2016 so they turned 75 months old on April 1st, 2022!
In this video, I'll be showing you my two 6+ Year Old flowering apple trees.
On top of that, I'll catch you up on the three smaller trees I started on 5/17/16 - which are now 71 Months old as well!
As an FYI, we do have a few issues to discuss in this video...
1) One of my flowering apple trees seems to get some sort of fire blight from the pollinating insects every year - it loses almost half of it's flowers and parts of those branches.
2) A few of my 2nd series apple trees have bare spots on the branches through most of spring, and finally open those leaf buds as summer approaches.

Does anyone have any insight as to what either of these problems are? Is it my soil or is there anything you recommend I do to circumvent those issues?

As you know, it's rare to get a tree grown from seed to flower before 4 years, let alone set fruit! But we did manage to achieve that on my first one at only 27 months old! Well, the other tree has set flowers this year - now the question is whether or not they will become edible fruits or crab apples...

FYI - The tallest one is about 15 feet tall now with several branches!

I plan on keeping you all updated on their progress until they perish or produce!
Thanks for watching!

Here is the entire series from episode 1:

I hope you are enjoying the journey along with me!

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In this video, I'll be showing you my two 6+ Year Old flowering apple trees.
On top of that, I'll catch you up on the three smaller trees I started on 5/17/16 - which are now 71 Months old as well!
As an FYI, we do have a few issues to discuss in this video...
1) One of my flowering apple trees seems to get some sort of fire blight from the pollinating insects every year - it loses almost half of it's flowers and parts of those branches.
2) A few of my 2nd series apple trees have bare spots on the branches through most of spring, and finally open those leaf buds as summer approaches.

Does anyone have any insight as to what either of these problems are? Is it my soil or is there anything you recommend I do to circumvent those issues?

As you know, it's rare to get a tree grown from seed to flower before 4 years, let alone set fruit! But we did manage to achieve that on my first one at only 27 months old! Well, the other tree has set flowers this year - now the question is whether or not they will become edible fruits or crab apples...

FYI - The tallest one is about 15 feet tall now with several branches!

I plan on keeping you all updated on their progress until they perish or produce!
Thanks for watching!

Here is the entire series from episode 1:

I hope you are enjoying the journey along with me!

PLEASE SUPPORT MY CHANNEL (if you wish) - when you shop through the following links, it helps me continue to put out more gardening content and allows me to pursue my passion!

Heirloom Tomato Seeds:

Jiffy Professional Seed Starter Mini Greenhouse:

Organic All Purpose Fertilizer:

Grow Room Rack:

Grow Room Lights:

Sensei Pruners/Shears:

Gardening Gloves:

If interested in connecting with me on other social media networks, here's my links below:

RobBackyardGardenerr

I live in Mozambique and saw your apple series in 2018...today I have fruits too. In super hot tropics climate

verdemocambique

If it does turn out to be a crab apple, it could provide you an opportunity to begin your hand at grafting. You can use it as a specimen to graft a handful of varieties onto the rootstock; fuji, gala, honeycrisp, Granny Smith, etc.

growingtolive

Nothing better than growing from seed, and waiting to see what you’ll get!

GrowingWithNick

Nice, i started over a hundred last year, from seed here in Jamaica. Hope to see my results 💊👨🏾‍🌾👍

MaluseedGrowers

Thanks for the update, i cant believe its been 5 years of watching your videos

freedomfighter

Your white flower tree is a "Spring Snow Flowering Crabtree". You should wrap trees with trunk guards or you can use paint. There are several YouTube videos on tree wrapping. We paint our trees in Pennsylvania. Animals don't like that taste.

williamfindspeople

Fruit trees need a lot of Potassium and Phosphor, the last one being critical. A great source of P and K is from Alfalfa pellets. If you look them up you will find many Macro and well and Micro nutrients. I sprinkle pellets all over my garden and trees to give them a boost and refresh my growing soils. Give them a shot see how it works for you, I amend in fall and spring with pellets.

GHumpty

Your doing a fine job with your trees rob and I'm sure you get the soil deficiency figured out

dougwagoner

My son stuck some seed in his spider plant soil he brought home from school. Now he has 2 apple trees on his windowsill I potted on. Not 3 months old and about 5 inches.

Note the shoots coming from the ground. The tree bought from the garden store would be grafted to a non intrusive/dwarf root stock. Seed started trees can pop up suckers that come up in the neighbouring garden. Lol. Good on you tho man.

johnpwright

I had always used plastic tree trunk protectors to stop squirrel/chipmunk damage until the trees got big enough.

jiggajames

It's been fun following the progress of YouTubers that have planted grocery store apple seeds. James Prigioni got crab characteristics as well and his tree was also precocious like yours. Some growers use crab apple pollen for pollination, so this might be why you guys are getting crab characteristics. I don't think having a crab tree is a bad thing. Some crabs are sweet and good for eating out of hand, others are good for processing. If you really aren't going to use the apples, then you can always graft on varieties that you want and keep some of the branches for pollination. I've already started grafting my 2 year old seedling trees, I will leave some branches ungrafted and see what the fruit is like.

HacknBuild

Very cool Video! It's interesting to see that you can actually grow an apple tree from seeds amd get fruit from it.

katiebailey

My one apple tree from seed is a crab apple. So, I grafted a pear scion onto it. I checked online on it. The apple and pear are the same family. I read that if it's from the same family it should work. Then, I read on the other site that the two has different gene and it will likely fail. Well, I saw a pear scion with leaves coming out in the Spring time. Sign of success. Just have to wait to see if it will last.

gopxrock