Wellington Bloomless or Spencer Seedless apples?

chickenlittle

5 year old buck +
Anyone have either of these varieties? Comments on whether they are productive? Effects of frost? Both are said to be apetalous...have no petals on the flowers so bees do not pollinate them but they will still set seedless fruit. With no seeds, these should not become biennial.

Various attempts have been made to breed new apples with this gene but it is recessive. Takes longer to get a variety that has the mutation inherited from both parents, still sets fruit, and makes an apple worth growing.
 
Sounds like something God never intended to exist. :)
 
Yes indeed. An evolutionary dead end without fools like me willing to propagate and clone it.
 
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