Can you grow a apple tree from any seed from any apple tree?
As said previously, should not be a problem growing from seed, but what it was pollinated with or what variety of apple tree you end up with is impossible to say. Every McIntosh apple grown over the past 150 years was taken from successive generations of cuttings from trees, all started from a single wild tree in Ontario. My friends from the Canadian Ag Research center tell me that of every ~1,000 or so crosses derived from commercial apple varieties, maybe one will be a seed/tree with characteristics worth investigating further and of these, only one in 100 will reach a test market. One in ten thousand is not very good odds if you are planning to eat the fruit your apple tree may produce!
