I have been growing fruit trees from seed for about 10 years. The first one was a wild plum that tasted wonderful. It came true from seed. Then I tried some granny smith seeds. Only one survived. The trunk is pretty knarly, but like you, my apples were small, sweet and pretty. I originally thought I'd graft another variety onto it, but now I think I'll make cider. The peach pits I planted grew great, but I was never able to get any to eat because they all got brown rot every year. I did, however, graft a Suncrest peach scion to a plum rootstock and it was the best peach I've ever eaten. The original variety is one that is not available in the stores because it is soft and won't ship well. If you want a particular variety, I suggest buying rootstock (they're cheap) and going to a scion exchange. In CA, we have the Rare Fruit Growers Association and they have annual exchanges where, for $5, you can get as many scions as you want and they have both rare fruit varieties and more commercial ones and they will teach you how to graft.

I grew a bunch of apple trees from seeds I found sprouting inside pink lady apples. So far 3 have borne fruit, 2 are full size apples but one attracts lots of insects and the fruit are covered in bug bites, the other is right next to it and had no insect damage and the fruit was hard/crisp with a wonderful complex flavor, very sweet but tart and some pleasant spicy flavors. The third made really bright red crabapples that were kind of bitter but I'm ok with leaving them for the birds to eat in winter. I tried some nectarine pits and got 1 tree, it makes a hard green fruit that never seems to ripen, they stay green and hard. A peach tree volunteered out of our compost and makes very good peaches now that I've moved it to a better location.

Great introduction of the Prigioni Apple. It's a crap shoot when growing apple seeds and you've done a great job explaining not only the time and risks involved but also the enjoyment when success happens.

I found a wild apple tree next to an old one in my horse pasture. It must me a seedling. And I´m so happy! It fruited so early as a tiny tiny tree and the apples taste just as good as the ones from the mother tree. Only a bit smaller. Like a normal size apple. I feel so lucky.

Let’s go! I grew a lemon tree from seed. This is amazing! 💕💕💕

Oooh i would love to see those apples in a big bowl on my kitchen counter! I love fruit that is snack size! You should totally market that apple. I could see it take off kind of like those mandarins called"Cuties".

2 years ago I decided to plant some apple trees from seed for #TeamTrees, and I'm pretty sure that's what started my love in gardening. I've also started a "nursery", which is really a single locust tree seedling at this point & a bunch of dead stuff lol

I bet the smaller apples on that tree would work to your advantage for making apple butter. They likely won’t store well since they are small, but they’d be easy to process through a food mill.

That is so cool that you grew your own apple tree. Thanks for showing us! We love how tuck tuck is ready for his piece of the apple☺️

My dad planted miniature apples in the 1980s and a couple years ago our Rome uprooted in a windstorm. My golden delicious is almost dead now and a Cortland isn't doing too well. Unfortunately, I think it's because of two black walnuts I let grow that are only about 10- 15 feet away. They were about 20 feet tall. I didn't know about the juglone they produce that ruins the soil for other plants. Just a bit of a warning incase they're around. They were all really good, too. Those little apples look like our wild crabapples and they're good if we get them before the deer! Tucker does a great job supervising. Thanks!

I'm seven years ketogenic, so small tart fruits would be great! I want apricot trees like the one my grandma had where I grew up! Tiny and tart and absolutely the best flavor I've ever had!

Been following for years, its exciting to finally see how your signature apple turned out! You could do a program where friends who volunteer to help you in the garden could get a graft.

Growth from seed it takes a lot of time, but worth it.

I've had a couple of times when I've bought apples and found pips inside already sprouting. I think this is an effect of having been in cold storage for some time and then being brought out, in both cases they were Pink Lady from Chile, (I'm in Great Britain) and they could have been a year after harvest. I planted those pips and had some grow on, none of them have flowered or fruited yet.

Nice! I was inspired by you so I planted one this spring, and it grew! It's two feet tall already with purple leaves, can't wait to see it grow up! Thanks for the idea!

Love your enthusiasm!! Life is like a tree of apples... you never know what you're gonna get! 🥰

Thank you for all your videos and inspiration!!! I have a food forest in north area of Denver so conditions and zones are different, but I still have learned so much from you!

As you kind of alluded to, a standard tree doesn't have to be 30' tall! Aggressive pruning will keep a tree at almost any size. Dave Wilson's nursery has a video series about a backyard orchard, and the results of their pruning are pretty impressive.

After seeing your video about them, a coworker gave me some pawpaw seeds and they’re actually sprouting in my fridge! Thanks for sharing your knowledge! It’s been super helpful because we both live in the same planting zone!

Thanks so much for the update about your apple trees from seeds. I have 2 I am growing since 1 year. I am just impressed that I got them through the winter in Tahoe. They both look strong. I hope for the best.

I wish I lived in an area that apples thrived. One day I will move north - but until that day I love to watch your channel and learn how to garden for that climate. And believe it or not, there's hardly a teacup in my house that isn't full of seeds from things that can't grow in Florida! People make fun of me but it feels like such a waste to just throw them away. When I do go north, perhaps I'll throw them all over my property just to see what happens.

Never seen an apple that small before,it's pretty amazing what your garden can produce...awesome video👍🏻

My daughter (4) and I love your videos. We are planning on planting a Jonagold apple tree soon, thanks and much love.

So many people planting Apple Trees this year. I just got 4 dwarf Apple and 1 Apricot for my small back yard garden. I really enjoyed hearing about the success of your Apple trees!

I wish apple will grow in Philippines😅 I never tasted and seen a crispy green apple yet, first time on this video. Mostly in the market is like cotton🤣

I'm going full steam ahead with my gardening! I started last July, and am going to be planting citrus trees and apple trees from seed, with the intention of grafting known scions onto them. I'll leave a natural branch, to know what the seed produced, but I will get fruit from the scions first, I expect. I'm so excited!

awesome video James. I am an amateur rose hybridizer. Working with nature to produce a better thing than you started with is so extremely exciting. I grow Honeycrisp and Fuji apples. Right now I have more Fuji's since the Honeycrisps are now done. Thank you for your channel. You and Big Tuck keep it up. Have a great winter.

That’s so cool. Love your excitement! Thank you for sharing as always :) Your videos put a smile on my face. God bless you.

I love this story! we did this last year with acorns and now have about a dozen different oak trees which produce food for insects and wildlife!

Your apple tree is beautiful, saw all those tiny apples and said wow. Love your enthusiasm! Hey Tuck ❤️❤️

So cool. I had crabapples in my yard growing up, so I’d love to have something different. Its nice to see someone’s garden from the same area (state). I am in South Jersey near Philly. Keep the videos coming! 😃

Awesome!! Thank you so much for sharing! I have several saplings I started from seed, they've made it through one winter in containers already! I will probably try grafting on the ones that survive this winter but I would probably plant them all if I had the space 😋 🌱💕

Everything you show always wows me, James. Super!

It has been fascinating watching the progress of this tree. I have 6 apple trees started from seed (all from different varieties of apples) in various stages of growth, and can't wait to see what the apples are like in a few more years.

Your enthusiasm is wonderful! I would love to have a plot of dirt to experiment with. Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden with us.

The aesthetic aspects of your namesake apple are really good, very pretty size and color!!!

I love your passion for growing food! Your energy is infectious thank you sir

All I can say is “ perfect “ nothing like a small sweet apple not too much just enough. You have inspired me to be patient and wait for my perfect little apples that I will try to grow from seed as well thank you

Thank you 🙏 for sharing your gardening knowledge with us. I love your videos. Very helpful 👍

His intro startled awake my dog who was sleeping next to me 😂

I like the gamble and mystery of growing apples from seeds! The stems on the Prigoni variety are long, like cherries. Very nice!!

I planted a small heritage apple tree grove this year. Can’t wait for all the apples!

Hi James, I share your enthusiasm, yes, Christmas came early for me, , my 11 year old apple tree grown from seed actually has three the first three flowers ever, Unexpected, I saw a bumble bee on the tree and on close inspection there was a flower.

Could you make a video of the best places to get fruit trees on the web. I live in rural middle of nowhere and there's no good places locally to get fruit trees. Thanks James, love your content!

Could your Apple tree pollinated with a fruiting crabapple, it might be why it’s smaller fruit, and crab trees are ( here in Denver anyway) are everywhere and are very good for pollinating other apples I’ve learned.

one of the best free content sources on the planet love tuk and the garden!

That's so cool! I've always loved the idea of doing this, just seeing what you'd get, but I'm not currently in the space to do it. I so appreciate living vicariously through your experience. Thanks for sharing! Do apple flavors mature as the plant does? Probably not?

Just purchased my first 3 blueberry plants, going to grow them in my apartment and baby them until i buy a home and can plant my own food forreest. Thank you for who you are.

I’ve been wondering about the Prigioni apple tree. Thank you for the update.

I am happy for you... Grats on your apple babies.

Learning lots of things about gardening. We are looking forward to more videos.

I had a lime shrub grown from seed in my mom's garden when I was a student, it produced fruit just one season, but the limes were very acidic and dry, I seriously wanted it to produce juicy super acidic limes and I had prepared the soil and compost for the next season, but it was killed 😐. I will have to grow another lime shrub in my house after watching this haha.

My grandma planted a dwarf apple tree about 3 decades ago and it produces a lot of delicious apples every year, we didn't even need to prune or harvest the first year fruit because the wild horses did it for us, I actually love that apples have so many variations now and it's all do to direct sowing and almost zero graphing when they were first introduced to North America

Goodafternoon James Hey Tuck how's it going boy.❤❤❤❤ You both have a great weekend 😀 🇨🇦

Hi James, thanks for sharing all these pros and cons with us. Yeah it' indeed great to grow your own signature trees. I have a few in my tiny yard. Seriously looking forward to my pomegranate fruits Passion fruits and the tiniest citrus fruit. I hope I get something fun. My neighbours apple started fruiting but its quite small and oblong. Were awaiting next year do you have any suggestions? TIA

I planted sevral seeds ten years ago some have fruited nicely but a couple flowered for the first time this year But the blossoms froze so i need to wait another year Its rewarding wait and you can always use your seetree for grafting stock I really want to try that

@The Garden Channel With James Prigioni Do you mind doing a tip video on how best to take an apple tree started from seed (mainly from sapling stage) to tree? How can I get them to grow stronger at this stage to ensure they will become trees? Your apple is amazing! It looks like a cherry, but crunches like a tasty apple. Keep the videos coming please and thank you. Also, we love you Tuck!

Blessings to all!

My apple tree that I grew from seed has sweet but tiny apples on it very similar to that. What I learned is that many commercial orchards plant crab apples in among their commercial varieties to help with the pollination of the blossoms so I figure a lot of seeds from commercial apples are going to be cross pollinated with crab apples. This the sweet but tiny apples. My goal now is to collect fruit from old neglected apple trees that grow on the edges of old farms around here and don't have crab apples in the area to get some really diverse apple genetics.

Love the info and all your videos in general…. This one started with a good scare when you first started talking and said “what’s going on” to us. Loved it (:

Love it❤️the Prigioni apple your personal signature, that sounds so damn good😏

Thanks for this video, it was really helpful!

I've decided to do the same thing. I know it will not produce good apples for eating but I am hoping for good cider apples. After reading about all the different cider apples out there I noticed most of them weren't much different than the crabapples I find growing in an abandoned field or hedgerow out in the country. I've always been told that they make the best hard cider. I'll find out in a couple of years.

Send me that cutting so I can graft it.. Actually in the spring. I have some stuff for you too!

The tiny apple is fabulous!

Love your enthusiasm! If I had patience I'd try apples. I'm still trying to understand my 2 lemon varieties. 🍋

I was ready to subscribe to the channel but saw I already was! Love all these videos. Hope to grow an amazing apple tree someday as well

I am growing from seed for a few reasons, one being that I can select for a tree that grows best in a specific spot. I am looking for a tree that tolerates black walnut and that's not a characteristic that's been selected for with commercial root stocks. If you don't like the fruit, you can always graft on something that you want or keep it as an ornamental and pollinator. There will be a lot of variety in the seed grown trees, so it's fun to see what comes up. You can also use the trees to improve your grafting and pruning skills.

I have several hectares of land so I planted LOTS of apple trees from seeds this summer. I planted them way too close to each other but I'm expecting to lose some to rabbits and voles, and only a few to actually be tasty. I can later jsut chop down the ones I don't like. I mostly use apples for cooking pies and such anyway, so it doesn't matter if they aren't the best in the world.

My son is growing apple tress and he got it right and fruit tress love thesma apple bottling

Great explainer on seeds that don't grow true - that's applicable to many, many kinds of commercial food seeds.

You inspire! Thank you for your enthusiasm. Do you spray your fruit trees? If so, what do you use? I've tried concentrated garlic with mixed results.

I cut open a granny smith one day a 2 summers ago and there was this seed already sprouting wanting to grow so I planted it.. its now about 3ft tall and doing well.. its in a pot and will transplant it soon to a large 5gal bucket .. but I am excited to see what I get.. I also have 2 lemon trees that I planted as well in buckets.. I live in PA zone 5b so I am scared to plant them in the ground .. ty for the info I love apples too!

When did you collect, stratify & plant your apple seeds? What time of year would you start stratifying? How do you store apple seeds? How long do you store before stratifying?

Awesome content. Very helpful and informative. Thanks

I'm learning so much from your videos great info

Beautiful! It looks like a crab apple type ! Love the coloring on it !

If you really want to develop your own variety of apple that both tastes great and is large in size (in addition to disease resistance and so on), you really need to do controlled pollination between carefully selected varieties that way you can have some control over the variables versus just leaving things to chance. As other posters have mentioned, the tree that produced the Prigioni seed was likely pollinated by a crab apple, hence the smaller fruit. I don't really care for apples, but your passion for them I think warrants more controlled experiments similar to how pepper growers are always experimenting.

I like James energy. Watching from Manila Philippines.

what i noticed in my garden is that a lot of the smaller, runts of the batch of seeds (vegetables and fruits) i grow almost always have a sweeter, or more intense flavor. But i used to feel down and out when i saw how small they turned out until i tasted them.

Hi James & Tuck I enjoyed watching the video 👍🏾♥️

Such fun, for free, life in a food forest. Love it, James!

First time fruit tree planter here. I've seen many of you had great experience growing apples. Do you have a suggestion about the best apple to start with? I want good fruit for canning especially. Thanks!

Love the tree. That is very exciting for sure :)

I have grown my own apple trees from seeds for about 1,5 years now. Out of the 6 or so I planted, I have two left. My first, and my last one. One of them seemed to be hardy against mildew. When all the others got it, this one just stood there, unaffected in their midst. I think it's a keeper. It's also growing well. It remains to be seen if that one or the other one has good apples though. Though that's not my main goal with them. I'm gonna make them into bonsai. But I want them to bear fruit (even if they're tiny). :D

Omg tiny apples.... Well done ☆☆☆☆☆ I have a few seeded apple trees 18 mo. Gardening teaches patience My seeds picked me... lol Had a few apples that had seeds sprout inside them , l discovered while eating them. Being a green thumb - this was such a gift from nature they had to.be planted 💚 . G'day from Australia - Melbourne

Hey James I love 💕 you and tuck.. your garden is amazing and I have a question about the fruit trees ? What is the Clay repellent you use..ty

I saw your video and I look at you tube and is very learning. I like the aardbei

That's really cool. I would love to make a pie out of the apples. Can you think back to all the apple varieties you like to buy and narrow it down to 3 of 4 that you think the seed came from?

I found wild apple tree in the meadow and the apples are amazing.

I like , beautiful garden ! 👍👍

My daughter’s fiancé is allergic to fruit and I just started wanting to add fruit to my property because of your inspiration. I planted 4 blueberry bushes, have one apple tree and one pear tree (but the trees don’t flower/produce). Can you please go over what bushes you have that produce fruit? I might keep the fruit growing in one area of the property so we can limit exposure on visits.

Those apples are the cutest things imaginable

Thanks for Sharing! I always plant my Apple seeds to see if they ever develop into apple trees. I plant them on Forest Service Land 🍎 🌳 🍎 🌳 🍏 Liked 👍. Shared on MeWe 👍. Shared on Facebook 👍. Saved on KZfaq 👍.

Awesome video, how about air layering a couple high branches so you could share some of your namesake trees?

Just planted 6 apple trees from seeds. Not sure what I will get but I am amped !! I planted like 5 grafted trees 5 years ago but moved so now it's time to start over. 3 peach, 2 cherry and 6 random apple. Maybe some pear next year.

If you want to try this look for a local farmer.much less likely to be crossed with a high pollen crab apple.

Incredibly rare to get store size/quality apples from seed, due to the pollination being facilitated by trees with tonnes of pollen, but with tonnes of pollen/flowers, often come small fruit.

Thank you James

This is so good!