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Why arent there more apple trees?
« on: 20/07/2021 16:19:55 »
I have spent many years eating apples as I watch the sunrise.
Throwing the core of the apple into the bushes. Unless im having a dumb moment the core holds the seeds.
Surely by now there should be apples growing at all the best spots to watch the sunrise ( What a terrible situation that would be if the trees start growing in front of my view)
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Re: Why arent there more apple trees?
« Reply #1 on: 20/07/2021 17:18:16 »
Trees put out thousands of seeds per year, and if they're really successful, maybe one of those seeds will grow to a mature tree producing seeds of its own. So the odds of one core with five seeds in it growing into a tree is remote, but it can happen if the conditions are amicable to apple trees.

Such is the economics of an r-strategist species.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
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