haha! how long do you have? mulberry trees are supposed to be like that but I've had a 5% success rate with the cuttings that I tried. From my experience, figs are unique that way among fruit trees in temperate zones. Willows are crazy easy to propagate, and you can turn one willow tree into several hundred very easily. It's kind of like magic.
Apples (and I think a lot of others - peaches, probably pears and plums) are easy to start from seed. Growing from cuttings means getting an exact copy of the original tree but growing from seed is kind of like having babies, genetically speaking, so you never know quite what you'll get. Some traits of the parents but a unique person/tree/fruit.
That could be a problem if you're really counting on - say - honeycrisp apples- but it's also kind of cool! You'll get totally new varieties of apples and one might turn out to be amazing. We're trying dozens of apple seeds this winter and about a dozen peach pits and it will be an interesting experiment (but we won't know the fruit quality for years; it's a low time preference game).
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"content": "haha! how long do you have? mulberry trees are supposed to be like that but I've had a 5% success rate with the cuttings that I tried. From my experience, figs are unique that way among fruit trees in temperate zones. Willows are crazy easy to propagate, and you can turn one willow tree into several hundred very easily. It's kind of like magic.\n\nApples (and I think a lot of others - peaches, probably pears and plums) are easy to start from seed. Growing from cuttings means getting an exact copy of the original tree but growing from seed is kind of like having babies, genetically speaking, so you never know quite what you'll get. Some traits of the parents but a unique person/tree/fruit.\n\nThat could be a problem if you're really counting on - say - honeycrisp apples- but it's also kind of cool! You'll get totally new varieties of apples and one might turn out to be amazing. We're trying dozens of apple seeds this winter and about a dozen peach pits and it will be an interesting experiment (but we won't know the fruit quality for years; it's a low time preference game).",
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