Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Which NBC host is this?
 
You don't have to assume. It's not. A long life for an ape tree is 80 years. Most don't live past 50. So a direct decendent it probably is not either. It woukd be 4-7 apple trees and pollinators down the road. One apple tree doesn't make apples.
What is an ape tree? That's racist!
 
Apple trees.... "They usually don't, but sometimes they do." I wouldn't go 350 years though.

At ye old family hunting cabin, we have a few apple trees left from the original farm/homestead, that are at least 100 years old, probably 120 or more. Most of my life there were seven. One died, no sun over grown with trees and I was too young to do anything about it.. Another some genius in the family cut down. Three years ago one fell over on it's side due to the shale and flooding. But in doing so got it away from the maple trees, it's now getting plenty of light and thriving. It's just horizontal. Though I'm sure the same genius will cut it up soon enough. :(

The neighbor has the remnants of a small apple orchard behind the house. Sadly it was let go and taken over by large trees to shaded them out and they've mostly all died. There are a couple still alive, though not long for the world, again because of no light and lack of care. But there's documentation they've been there since the 1860's?

It's crazy seeing it with apple trees, and pear trees where they are killed because they come apart at the graft line. Despite growing together for decades from a sapling to to a giant tree, they never really quite "become one".