Pokok Lemon

Pokok Lemon ni Mak mertua beli. Dalam 4-5 bulan lepas. Dulu pernah cuba. Dari biji x berjaya pasal arnab asyik makan. 2nd time beli di tesco. Tak berjaya jugak pasal x jaga betul2. Habis kena makan dengan ulat beluncas. Kali ni pokoknya nampak sihat. Minggu lepas dah berbunga n berbuah. Sekarang bunga kedua dah keluar. Kalau berjaya nak test buahnya sama kualiti x dgn lemon beli

Top 9 Apple Trees

Setakat ni dah byk tanam pokok epal ni. Rata2 tak dilabel, x diketahui dari biji epal mana..
Ni pokok2 yg di Bangi
Gambar first pokok generasi pertama, masa testing tanam pokok dari biji. Ke hari ini umur pokok ni 20 bulan. Tepi2 tu pokok basil, musang king, and oregano. Most likely dari Fuji. Byk bercambah. Cuma dalam pasu ni kadang2 lambat siram layu sikit

 pokok kedua ni dalam 18 bulan. Ntah dari biji epal yg mana. Daunnya berbulu sedikit. Dah 2 meter tinggi. X ada byk masalah serangan serangga

Ini antara generasi ke dua. Umur dalam 1 tahun. Byk bercabang. Dahan agak kuar Dan bercambah. Daunnya kecik2. Tapi ni ulat beluncas suka. Jadi saya simpan dalam pasu untuk jaga. Tunggu2 dalam 1.8m

Ini dari Matsu. Umur setahun. Dahannya agak lembut. Mungkin dari jenis yg perlu disokong kayu. Disease resistant, insect resistant. Plannya nak tanam di Ipoh kemudian. Matsu ni sebiji je 13ringgit. Tapi biji benih banyak.

Matsu yang kedua. Yang lain ditanam keliling rumah Dan tempat2 lain. Yg ni Dan diatas saya simpan kerana nampak agak cantik pokoknya. Lebih kurang setahun, 80cm tunggu2

Pokok yg ni pun dalam setahun. Dari segi daun n dahan nampak macam adapted dgn weather Bangi. Plan utk tanam di Ipoh bulan depan

Yang ni dalam setahun setgh. X sure dari biji epal mana. Tapi semua biji benih ni sgt vigorous. Cepat membesar. Akar dia cepat membesar. Kalau ingat x ingat mungkin dari cameo atau epal yg Mak saya bwk dari Germany aritu. Tapi problemnya akar prone to fungal infection masa transfer ke tanah. Dalam 10 pokok x hidup. Yang ni antara 3 yang hidup n terlebih sihat

Ni antara granny smith atau gala. Mcm byk blog and forum lain, tahun pertama nak jaga byk kerja sikit. Dah lepas tahun pertama dia sendiri vigorous. Harap2nya dapat la berbunga at least 2-3 tahun lg

Jazz apple. Tahun pertama. Akhirnya start mengeluarkan dahan2. Mungkin nak keep dalam pasu dulu

Setakat ni dari 60 pasu dah tanam kebanyakannya ke tanah. Tinggal 20 pasu lebih mostly pasal dah xtau nak tanam mana. Haha

Golden Delicious Apple

Biggest issue with my current project was, i labelled them poorly. the difficult part lies on they are all from seeds! Sometimes I germinate 2-3 varieties, but i didn't label them (hoping that my memories would do the job). sometimes i do, but the water content in the process, the casing i used to keep the seeds tumbled, and other factor makes me confuse again.

During my occasional reading about apples, i stumbled upon golden delicious many times. almost all of the apple variety would have GD as one (and some multiples) of the parent. Can't help but to think if i ever wanted an apple tree that would fruit, then the best bet would be GD seedlings.

GD actually looked like a pear. but it tasted like apple still of course. 4-5 months ago I was lucky that Jaya Grocer did sell them for RM 4 an apple. bought 2 of them, each only have 2 seeds unfortunately. So I started to keep them in the freeze in wet tissues (unfortunately with another variety seeds which i forgot from which apple seed). it all germinate just fine

GD - pix from the internet

As the seedlings grow, my worry grow - which one is exactly GD seedling again? this one on the left grew very well. but it doesn't really have the characteristics of an apple tree. Rather, it more resembles more of a pear. it grew very well, now about 1 foot tall

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This is my pear tree. a failed project. this small fella suppose to be 1 year age, but still at this small (1 inch)










Hence i thought this could actually be the one. Problem is, it might take years to actually know

By far i have about 30 potted apple trees, with nearly 20 planted scattered in Bangi and Ipoh, few giveaway hoping that some if not 1 would grew and benefited the squirrels and birds.

Pokok epal Malaysia

Gambar yg diambil nov 2015. Rata-rata semua pokok survive

Umur pokok lebih kurang setahun semuanya

Penjagaan selepas setahun x banyak. Cuma area ni kerbaunya byk

Antara pokok yg membesar agak cepat

Harapnya ada la berbuah kot

Beberapa pokok yg masih dlm pasu. By far ada 30 pokok. Kebanyakannya 1thn + umur

Projek Pokok Epal / Apple tree project Malaysia

It crossed my mind to try planting non tropics trees in my homeplace ever since im back to Ipoh from abroad. that was 2009. so i did with some strawberries (from ireland - successfully bear fruits), cranberries (from ireland, died) and a small apple trees( from ireland, also dead as soon i plant it at home). for now, i have strawberries in bangi, malberries at home and grapes at home and my mums home. all grown well and fruiting seasonally

These are some of the grapes. Not so much to eat but satisfying enough


It took about 3 years to establish and finally fruit endlessly

It then took at least 3 months to be in this colours

Over time the fruit is bigger n bigger, and so does the stalk numbers n fruits per stalk

It crossed my mind from time to time to try on apple again. Few times I kept the seeds and plant them - nothing happened.

Then I visited nurseries nearby KL n Ipoh. None have them. Even in MAHA I didn't find them. So I didn't proceed, especially while I'm busy working

The ideas spark again as I moved in to new house, loads of empty land and so the possibilities of planting something on it. So I did my internet search. Learned that actually to make the seed germinate, it has to go through wintering. So to mimick it one need only a wet tissue, few bucks to buy an apple and save the seeds and keep them in locked container in a fridge ( without a container, fridge will eventually made the tissue dry). 

So on end of April 2014, I finally made it into serious consideration. 

I went to Tesco, get myself a Fuji apple. I guest I'm just lucky. The Fuji that I took actually have 1 seed already germinated. I kept it in a container with wet tissue overnight and planted them

This is how it looked like on may 1 2014 and few days later.

So far I have royal gala, envy, Fuji, braeburn, red delicious, granny smith, Rome, honeycrisp, pink lady, rose, cameo, and few more others. All mixed up. Wasn't expecting it to grow well as I anticipated. As for now I have at least 60 apple trees, with 3 of them planted on the ground. Tallest was my original Fuji up there, with about 2 metre tall in 8months.

Some facts

1. Apple seed is heterogenous, so it is not true to its original parent. If you have red delicious apple, chances that you would get an apple from its seed to taste the same will be pretty slim. So the tree can be a fast grower, or slow grower, producing fruit or none, a lot or few, and tasty or just not worth eating

2. You need a pollinator. Like Fuji need braeburn or Rome to pollinate. It can self pollinate but the fruit will not be as many. Crabapple is a universal pollinator. In term of Malaysia of course its a big issue. Type of pollinator is essentially due to different apple flowered at different time. But I assume 2 seeds will produce 2 different apple so it worth the try

3. It took at least 4 years to bear fruit

4. It needs some winter and other season to trigger flowering. But I have seen few blogs of other Malaysian apple owner successfully produce

Being over passionate left me with about 50 small apple trees. Still finding a way how to plant all of them. 

Few problems encountered so far; 1. Aphid. Horrible at suckingvthe new shoots and disfiguring the trees. However once the tree gets bigger, it become lesser issue. The tree can hold onto it. Plus aphid predators will come and make your apple tree their home. I got a praying mantis 24h on the job on 1 of the tree. 2. Grasshopper. Maybe apple tree itself is yummy. But you would notice soon ever bettle n caterpillar pay the tree a visit. 3. Sunlight but not too much sunlight. But it will get better when the sun passed. 4. Fertiliser. So far all my grapes, strawberry, and apple tree hates them. 

Now the question is... Is it really worth it? To

care a tree that unlikely to fruit. Honestly I don't think so too. Especially both Bangi n Ipoh is a super hot area to live at. However knowing that how it is a heterogenous plant, no one would really know which seed is the jackpot. Perhaps one of them could be genetically ready to adapt and fruitfully pay me back