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Originally Posted by DoubleF
I know someone who has had one for a while (5-10 years?). They think it's kinda stupid. One of the other types of apple branches died so he's left with the 2 types. The other type of apple is also just the one singular branch that was grafted on while the rest of the tree is the base apple tree that was grafted to. The other type of apple was so different, the branch constantly sticks out like a sore thumb vs the rest of the tree. The bark, leaves, flowers and fruit are completely different to the main tree. The guy was saying he was thinking about pruning off that branch.
That being said, I don't know if the modern versions of these have addressed this issue. But IMO, I'd just buy the one type of fruit unless I had the only tree around and needed some type of cross pollination. I guess it'd be kinda cool if I didn't know the other types were there until I randomly had a few fruits that were a different type of color? But I don't think this is necessarily the case with the ones that are out there.
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Yeah, I get that, but the purpose of two apples on one tree is that apples needs to cross-pollinate in order to flower. If there isn't another apple tree within 300 feet or so, it won't make apples. So if you only have room for one tree (like me), then you need to get one with two kinds of apples (or confirm a neighbour has one).
I never really considered that two different apple branches might look stupid. That's a good point.