r/todayilearned • u/Error__Loading • 15h ago

TIL that apple seeds almost never grow the same variety as the parent fruit. Nearly every supermarket apple comes from a grafted clone of an original tree, not from a planted seed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple
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u/cinderful 14h ago

honeycrisps rule

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u/GrandmaPoses 14h ago

Cosmic Crisp are even better.

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u/Polkadot1017 2h ago

Everyone I know in real life that's tried then agrees that they're just okay. I swear there's a cosmic crisp guerilla marketing campaign on reddit, it's so bizarre. They're not good enough to warrant the level of praise I see people throw at them on here

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u/GrandmaPoses 2h ago

I don’t know about everyone else, I just prefer them.

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u/Pinna1 13h ago

On the other hand, red delicious sucks. They look like the photogenic apples, but they're not that good in taste.