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Apples to Apples (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Actually, apple varieties are preserved via grafting. If you take an apple seed, the tree that will grow from it only has 50% of the DNA of the tree that made the apple. So there is absolutely no guarantee that the taste was preserved across generations.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Damn it! That was my bit of esoteric plant kkowlwdge

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lol me too. 30 minutes late I guess.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Likewise, fellow apple nerds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Actually, even if you bred an apple tree with itself, due to the genetic recombination of recessive genes, the same thing happens. So it's more complicated than 50% of the genes missing.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

TIL :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Human: I love this apple, I will plant its seeds so I can grow more myself.

Apple tree: Crabapples crabappley

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I thought that was what made the meme funny…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Apple grafting is incredibly easy and cheap. All you need is a bit of knowledge, a utility knife, cheap flagging tape and ordinary waterproof wood glue. Planning to procure scions and watching for the bark slip is necessary - usually right around when buds start to break. My first graft was successful. Now I graft all the time. Peaches were a problem for me until I learned that they must be grafted after blossoms drop - usually later than ideal apple grafting time.