Christophs Apfel. My small tree is starting to make tiny fruit. Luckily sorbus domestica is self-fertile and when it pollinates itself there usually is only one seed in each fruit. Seen as this variety fruits at a really young age i want to sow the seeds and see if the offspring will inherite this trait. It will be interesting to see the size and appearance of the fruit. Hopefully the tree won't get sick and will manage to make some fruit and therefore seed. If the early flowering trait is passed on to the next generation these seedlings will make excellent sorbus domestica dwarf rootsock.
Malus sieversii. This is my little three coloured malus sieversii apple when it was young. Now i am trying to multiply it by approach grafting. The ornamental value of this tree is off the charts. Incredible leaf colours. This was at the end of last year. Now i am approach grafting it onto another apple rootstock. I did the grafting on the 6th of march and plan to cut them off on the 6th of june. In spring the leaves are green with a little red on the edges but each year they then display spectacular colours. The problem is the plant is not very vigourous and we don't know what the fruit will be like. Here you can see that the rootstock makes larger leaves than the three coloured apple. I found this individual in 428 seed-grown malus sieversii. Malus sieversii is incredibly diverse genetically as you can see in the next picture. These are malus sieversii seedlings displaying huge diversity.
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