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For the same reason we have 1 banana and mostly only see hass avocados. IF you take the seeds of a tomato you will get a mostly decent tomato out of it. IF you

For the same reason we have 1 banana and mostly only see hass avocados. IF you take the seeds of a tomato you will get a mostly decent tomato out of it. IF you take the seeds of an apple or a haas avocado you will likely get something that looks nothing like its parent. Unlike tomatoes it takes a LONG time to grow a tree, so if you want an avocado or apple orchard your going to use grafts to make sure you get the best chance of having a good product in 5 or 10 years... The economics of commonality should be readily apparent... pick something that you know works for your multi year bet to pay off sounds like a good plan. Avocados are also interesting because we DO get other varieties due to how it reproduces (you need plants of both sexes). IM fairly sure that apples do not have this issue so farms are monocultures. Add on to that the fact that the varieties we see are designed to be kept long enough to have a birthday and this is what you get.

fsckboy 3y ago
apples themselves, all on their own, don't "breed true". If you take seeds from an apple from a tree that you love and plant them, you will not get a tree that produces fruit that tastes the same. The majority of apples "born" are sour. When a tasty apple tree is grown, it's a small miracle, and cuttings are propagated from it because it's the only way to produce more apples that are good. Johnny Appleseed walking through colonial American planting apple trees? he was a hippy promoting more fermentation of alcoholic apple cider, for which sour apples work just fine. virtually all French wine grapes, btw, are grown from cuttings grafted onto American root stocks because the native roots were not resistant to the invasive Phylloxera fly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera it is because of grafting that we have variety in these cases.

fsckboy 3y ago

apples themselves, all on their own, don't "breed true". If you take seeds from an apple from a tree that you love and plant them, you will not get a tree that produces fruit that tastes the same. The majority of apples "born" are sour. When a tasty apple tree is grown, it's a small miracle, and cuttings are propagated from it because it's the only way to produce more apples that are good. Johnny Appleseed walking through colonial American planting apple trees? he was a hippy promoting more fermentation of alcoholic apple cider, for which sour apples work just fine. virtually all French wine grapes, btw, are grown from cuttings grafted onto American root stocks because the native roots were not resistant to the invasive Phylloxera fly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera it is because of grafting that we have variety in these cases.