Growing apple trees from seed isn't hard, but it is an exercise in patience. Getty Images Have you ever driven out to the country for the requisite apple picking fall activity before coming home to ...

Apple trees are hugely popular, and thousands of apple cultivars exist worldwide. Most apple trees planted nowadays are ...

Ever try growing an apple tree from a seed? In this time lapse, we demonstrate how a seed was stratified after extraction from a typical apple all the way to early plant. The pips were taken out of a ...

Suppose you start your own apple orchard on the cheap. You harvest the seeds from a single apple that you love and plant them in the ground. Next spring, six apple tree seedlings come up — success! A ...

How exciting to think of a full-size tree locked up within each seed still clinging to the branches of sugar maples, hornbeams, oaks, sycamores and other trees at the end of summer. It was with such ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...