i’d always admired the tenacity of plants to grow, oh sure everyone knows about them sprouting up in cracks through the cracks in sidewalks, but that seemed easy for them in comparison to giving it a go with someone who doesn’t have a green thumb. I’ve always liked buy little bags of seeds and just plant things around the yard, and even though i’d gotten better, and things had gotten easier with the advent of grow lights and timers, apples always evaded me.
The always just seemed to wait for what I don’t know when I’d placed them in a hole in the ground. You know naturally when you cover something, anything with dirt you think it’d instinctually try and dig its way out, but they seemed to be as scared of the sun as me. Well one day I decided to consult wikipedia and there it was, an answer phrased like it was something a grandparent would say with a sly smile on their face.
See apples are trickier than other plants, they want to feel the seasons change before they decide to become what they were meant to be, to become a tree, and more specifically they need to feel the cold of winter before spring. Now the problem with that is being that I live somewhere where it’s happy being summer all year round, they’ll refuse to move out of their seeds without some coaxing. So you’ve got to convince them they’ve been born somewhere more to their liking, when in actuality you’ve just got to stick them in the fridge for a few days. They’ll emerge proud little sprouts thinking they’ve beaten the winter and are ready for spring, and then that’s when you can plant them in a machine that lights them and feeds just as they need automatically.
& while of course with nature it’s a numbers thing, and some won’t make it to be trees, enough are growing as fast as they can every day so that in years we’ll be able to repeat this again. So there you go, those are apple trees from seeds brough to me by my brother from georgia.