Home Scale Apple Breeding: A Tour of My Apple Breeding Project, First Flowers!

How to breed apples at home: A walk around the property looking at my apple breeding project. I'm attempting mostly to breed red fleshed apples with better desert quality. Support on   / skillcult   has been critical in keeping me experimenting and making content. If you want to help me help others, this is probably the best way to do it. Thank you Patrons for supporting the mission! Donations can also be sent via PayPal @: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Skill... Buy less, but buy it through my links! Shopping through my affiliate links generates revenue for me, at no extra cost to you, click links here, or go to my Amazon Store page: http://skillcult.com/amazon-store/ But seriously, buy less, do more. Standard gear I recommend. I either use or have used all of it. Council Tool Boys Axe: https://amzn.to/3z0muqI Bahco Farmer's File: https://amzn.to/3Hbdhij King two sided sharpening stone: https://amzn.to/32EX1XC Silky f180 saw: https://amzn.to/3yZzM71 ARS 10 foot long reach pruner: https://amzn.to/3esETmM Victorinox grafting/floral knife: https://amzn.to/3Jki1E9 Wiebe 12” fleshing tool: https://amzn.to/3sB0qSl Atlas Elbow Gloves: https://amzn.to/3FwB5g6 BOOKS: The Axe Book, by Dudley Cook: https://amzn.to/32kx7sN Bushcraft, by Mors Kochanski: https://amzn.to/32q2rpT Subscribe to my channel for more insightful Self Reliance related content: http://www.youtube.com/skillcult/subs... Click the bell icon to be notified of new content. Subscribing doesn’t mean that much on it’s own. Blog and website: www.skillcult.com/blog Instagram and Facebook @SkillCult Red Fleshed apples, or "blood apples" are in need of improvement. They are very interesting and often have excellent flavors, but they tend to be low in sugar and suffer from texture problems. I select outstanding parents to breed them with in hopes that I can come up with red fleshed apples of improved desert quality. Click here to see the whole series on my amateur apple breeding project and how to do it all from pollination to fruit. We look at rootstock production, pollinated fruits, new and older seedlings. First many varieties of apples are grown to test which varieties are worth using as parents. Once the parents are selected, the flowers are cross pollinated one at a time with pollen from another selected parent tree. In the fall, the seeds are harvested from the apples and stored under refrigeration until late winter, when they are planted in the greenhouse. In spring the apple seedlings are planted out. After growing for one year, the seedlins are cut off of their original roots and grafted onto dwarfing rootstock and planted out in rows to grow until they fruit, hopefully within a few years.