Nicholas sold us 20 lb of Gravenstein apples at the Berkeley farmers' market. He said they were fresh from the tree, he had picked them that morning. I love not-quite-ripe apples! We tasted some...
When I told him about our plan, he pointed out that the chance anything will grow from the seeds was about one in a thousand, and if it did it would be a crabapple tree. The chance of growing a Gravenstein was maybe one in a million, he thought. I mentioned that Gravensteins were originally discovered from a chance seedling, and he said that all apples were like that. At Pomo Tierra farm, where he comes from, they grow them by grafting. Anyway, he shook my hand and introduced himself.
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