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.
I weeded all my malus sieversii trees and i lost quite a few to what i believe was a combination of deer, rabbit and rodent attacks. I think i lost between one fourth and one third of the 426 plants i grew from seed. I discovered some visually very amazing and different ones in two of the six seed batches. I singled out several unique ones that i planted in my polytunnel to grow them properly. I didn't have the time to protect the 426 as i would have liked to. All trees of the 4 other batches have basically green leaves. Here is one example. This is a very nice green leaved one. And another green leaved one. Already these two are different in leaf colour and shape. But i selected them from the batches where all had green leaves in order to be sure to have genetic diversity. I kept 18 seedlings in the polytunnel that contain some of every batch. The following ones are very special and unique and display many variations of red and green and even other colours. One seedling with nice
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