Eating an apple from a seedling apple tree will make you appreciate the tremendous amount of work that goes into plant breeding and selection.
I have a Meyer lemon tree in my yard that produces great-tasting lemons. It is a semi-dwarf tree, and I took several seeds from these lemons planting them in pots where they are growing nicely.
A: Generally speaking, when you plant a seed for a fruit tree, you are unlikely to get a tree that will produce fruit that is as good as the original tree. For instance, if you plant seeds from any commercially grown apple , the resulting tree is 99.999% likely to produce apples that taste awful. This is due to cross-pollination – the good apple acquired random genetic material from other apple trees and there’s a lot more genes out there that produce mealy tasteless fruit.
Citrus is the exception to this rule since their seeds are polyembryonic. Simply put, this means that citrus seeds are very likely to result in trees that produce fruit that is similar in quality to the original parent tree. Semi-dwarf trees are produced by grafting a scion onto a hardy rootstock. These “Franken-trees” will not grow to full size, making care and harvesting much easier. The hardy rootstock also protects against some soil-borne diseases and pests.
If you plant a seed from your Meyer lemon, you are likely to get a tree that will produce Meyer lemons, but that tree will not be a semi-dwarf. Keeping the tree in a container will probably limit its size. I don’t recommend trying to graft it onto a rootstock because the rootstocks are difficult to come by and home-grafted citrus is more likely to spread citrus greening disease.
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