Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds
by mark-r on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:46PM
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Interesting fact: Johnny Appleseed spread apple trees by planting seeds rather than grafting. So the apples he left behind weren't good for much except making hard cider.
https://priceonomics.com/the-johnny-appleseed-business-model...
I'm seriously considering doing some grafting myself this year. The place I go has probably 1000+ trees spread out over a couple hundred acres. There is a huge range of variation in terms of flavor. But my favorite ones for making cider are the pips (small, when fullsize, maybe the size of an oblong plumb). They make by far the best cider.