Can you grow an apple tree from a cutting from another apple tree?
Lots of misinformation here. Apples are grafted onto specific kinds of rootstock, depending on climate and soil type, so I doubt that a cutting would succeed, even if you did get it to root. However, a cutting can be grafted onto the branch of an existing tree if you know how. New varieties come from trees grown from seed in experimental orchards. The thing is, apple seeds carry a huge load of genetic information and do not “come true” – that is, planting seeds from a specific apple will not reproduce that apple. Very llikely the apples that result will be a huge disappointment, but once in a while you get lucky…and that’s where the many apple varieties came from. Luck. The trees that Johnny Appleseed grew were not intended for eating so it didn’t matter what they tasted like. Back then, homesteaders were required by law to plant a specific number of apple trees (50, I think) on the property they claimed. Johnny was a speculator who started nurseries on the edge of new “developments”
