My mom and my great-aunt go walking by an old railroad track where it comes around a corner and splits into two tracks. They have decided that the engineers must have been eating apples on their break and throwing them out the window for years because there are 47 apple trees along a few miles of the track.
Now apples do not grow true from seed. For example: If you want to grow a fuji apple tree you have to graft a branch of fuji on to root stock. Planting a fuji seed results in completely different genetics.
As an experiment last fall they decided they would taste an apple off of each tree one day - in hopes of discovering the next "gala" or "braeburn" and getting rich, or maybe just because they are scientists at heart. At any rate, of the 47 trees some tasted great but were ugly, some looked great but were mushy, some where huge but tasteless and some were small scaly and puckery. There was every combination you could think of, but no great apples.
It takes a lot of luck to find a great apple. Just think of those gala's, pink lady's and braeburns as the rock stars or supermodels of the apple world.
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thanks for the advice on the pink lady. my apples have to be sweet and crunchy or i don't like them.
