Justin, apple trees from seed will produce fruit unlike the apples you ate. You could wait several years for apples only to find they are something like a crab apple - crab apple trees are often used in orchards as pollinators.
If an apple good to eat is your goal, you'd do better buying a young tree.

The seeds need 2 - 3 months of moist chill (40F) to break dormancy, you can do that by either sowing and placing the pots outdoors over winter, or putting the seeds in a bit of moist sterile vermiculite or moist sterile sand in a baggie in your refrigerator - you could use a damp paper towel too. Then sow, barely covered, keep moist, and wait for germination.

Thanks for the response. Even if the tree does not produce fruit I would still enjoy having grown a tree itself lol. But thanks for the response, I think I'll try the paper towel method first.

Germinating isn't that hard, we've even just planted the seeds after they've dried and they have sprouted. The tougher problem is keeping them alive -very fickle!

Justin,

Try it. You might just get a great new apple. I have planted apple, pear, and peach seeds. Peach seeds or pits, I did plant years ago and got real nice peaches from the trees. Pears and apples I planted them 2 yrs ago, and the trees are still too young to bear fruit--I hope someday they will bear some.

Of course, I planted the seeds the lazy--or easy--way. Sometime in the winter (I live in zone 5. Used seeds from fruit I had just bought from a supermarket.) I planted the seeds in the ground, covered them with dirt--the small seeds not too deep, the peach pits deeper. In the spring they sprouted. Just make sure you mark the spot where you plant your seeds; this way, you wont pull them out as weeds--something I often do.

I'm sure you are doing this for fun, so enjoy and learn. Hey, After 5 summers, I just got my first flowers from oriental lilies that I started from seed...Most of them look just like their parents...2 look different, but I have seen the same type of flowers in catalogs.

Good luck, but most important: Happy Gardening!!!

You will notice that apple seedlings have a long juvenile life when they will not flower or bear fruit. Usually from 7 to 10 years from planting. When you graft onto your seedling, if you should do so, the scion wood, or bud is from a mature tree and ready to produce flowers and fruit buds, so the tree produces much sooner. Al

So if one gets a juvenile apple tree from a seed and grafts that onto good rootstock how long will it take to produce fruit?

I had a grafting class back in the '60s and having never done any grafting since then I think I may have I have forgotten everything I learned.

1. Take the seeds out of an apple.

2. Wrap the seed in a napkin.

3. Wet the napkin.

4 Place the napkin in a plastic bag (leave the bag open).

5. Place the bag outside in the shade.

As Joe has indicated, a fresh seed out of an apple will usually germinate without any pretreating. If you don't want to germinate in a wet napkin, before planting the germinated seed, in seed starting mix, just start the seed right in the mix. Al

My neighbor brought me 4 apple seeds from 100+ year-old trees in upstate Vermont and asked me to winter sow them for him. I did, and in April I gave him 4 seedlings that he planted in his garden. They got the same treatment as all the other seeds I winter sowed.

Justin, in my years, i have found that the moisst paper towel and plastic bag method in the refrigerator for a few weeks works best. Good luck!

i've been tried paper towel and plastic bag method but didn't work. Could u give me some advice?