Apples are delicious fruits that are also very nutritious and it has been discovered that eating apples prevents various diseases from affecting the human body. It is for this reason that you should know how to grow apples. Growing of apples is a process that needs to be adhered down to the last detail. The first thing to do when thinking of growing your own apples is getting the seeds and this can be saved whenever you eat an apple in order to save of buying the seeds from a store. The seeds should be laid out for a few days in order for them to dry so that there is no moisture on the outside.
After the drying process the seeds they should be covered with a damp paper towel and placed in the refrigerator for a month and you should check regularly to make sure the paper towel is still damp. After this the seeds should have sprouted and then you can proceed to put them in a small cup of potting soil where they should be watered daily. A small apple seedling should appear after a few days and this is when you should transplant it to a larger pot and maintain the daily watering.
You can then proceed to pick a location for your tree and this should be somewhere that gets full sun and also convenient as well as big enough to grow. Note that a matured apple tree can go as high as 20 ft. after the little sapling has gotten big enough you should then transplant it and be sure not to cut off any roots. It is advisable to plant in spring and the planting hole should be dug much wider than the roots in order to allow them to grow easily.
The tree is supposed to be watered so as to eliminate air pockets and then spread a mulch of hardwood chips a few inches thick and this is in a 3 ft circle around the tree. You are not supposed to add any nitrogen resources such as fertilizer when planting so you should wait a month or two. Nature should take care of the rest as after one year you can stop watering the tree unless you live in an extremely dry area. You can try and mesh fence the tree to avoid it being damaged and spray it with homebrew spray.
Pruning is supposed to be done as little as possible in the first few years and this is so that the fruit bearing will not be delayed. It is not a must however that the tree will produce a fruit so you should be hopeful that it does. The growing of the fruit will take pruning, thinning as well as keeping insects and diseases at bay among other things. It is for this reason that you should also research on the pests and diseases that are in your area in order to know how to avoid them from affecting your apple tree.
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