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Yah, the problem is that if you plant a seed you often get a wild type apple with a totally random flavor profile (self-pollination within a particular tree won
by pfooti 10y ago
Yah, the problem is that if you plant a seed you often get a wild type apple with a totally random flavor profile (self-pollination within a particular tree won't produce apple trees with fruit that are identical to their parent).
- DashRattlesnake 10y ago> the problem is that if you plant a seed you often get a wild type apple with a totally random flavor profile IIRC, it's even worse than that. You will almost always get a wild-type apple with an often inedible flavor profile or texture. The orchards they use to develop new apple varieties have thousands of trees, and might not even produce a single new marketable type.