Apple seeds are available in the webstore. Usually patrons pretty much clean them out by the time they become available to the general public. This year I increased pollination efficiency and just spent a lot of time making crosses, so there is quite a bit of good stuff left.
And there were so many interesting crosses this year! Every year it gets more interesting as I increase the number of crosses I’m making with my own varieties. Quite a few are even crosses between two of my varieties. I went through the seeds and sorted out what I want to grow. Really, I wanted to save more, but I tried to be conservative. I don’t even have a place to put them in the ground yet. I counted up what I saved out and it was a whopping 725 seeds! If those have just a decent germination rate, I’d have more seedlings this year than all the previous 12 years I’ve been doing this combined, ughhh. But they are so good and so promising. I went back through to see if I could pare it down, and put back 10 seeds lol. I’m going to have to try that again. The seeds are all dried this year, so I can keep them til next year, but by then there will be new seeds and new crosses that are horribly tempting. I guess it’s a good problem to have, but I really am not sure how to proceed. I simply can’t plant 700 seeds this year.
Scions are coming soon as well. I’ll have at least three new varieties debuting this year, Tomboy (Wickson x Rubaiyat), Dutch Master (Grenadine x Goldrush) and Amberwine (Williams’ Pride x Vixen). I will have increased numbers of scions for most of the stuff I have already released, much of which will be available in the webstore this time around, instead of on auction.
