Wednesday, December 14, 2005

This is a trick question

Your neighbor has four apple trees in his yard. How many kinds of apples could he be growing?

5 comments:

  1. I would hope that he dosn't have the apples growing on himself! Except maybe an Adam's Apple. =p

    Seriously though. With four trees and some splicing of limbs, you could concievably grow every type of apple imaginable if he is great at tree pruning and the like.

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  2. I was always under the impression you needed two trees of the same type to have them produce apples, so I am going to say 2.

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  3. I'm with Karnov. I guess that he can grow as many types of apples as there are types of apples with splicing.

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  4. Cross pollenation too! He could start creating new trees and types of apple. Supposedly the original apple is the crab apple.

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  5. As Karnov and Jon said: You can't know. Apple trees are grafted. A branch from one tree is attached to a new tree. That way you know what kind of apple you will get from a new tree. Since you can graft several different kinds of apples to a a new tree, you can't guess as to how many kinds of apples your neighbor is growing.

    I didn't know that about the crab apple. Interesting.

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