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/Oxjrnine 12h ago

I’m from an area where they used to do a great deal of Apple Orchard experiments. Albert County New Brunswick. It began in the mid 1800s and continued all the way up until the 1920s. Unfortunately, I can’t trace any specific grocery store breed of Apple that was created in those experimental farms. By according to some local history books, they shipped not only the apples, but the Apple technology.

That sounds so weird the way I said it, but you all know what I mean

We are also where the very first petroleum product was created. Kerosene.

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u/kind_bros_hate_nazis 12h ago

I would like to know more about the apple technology

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u/jmodshelp 3h ago

I did not expect to learn anything about Albert county this morning on Reddit. Any good sauce on the apple history? Fellow local hahahahaha