Post by stingray on Jun 2, 2013 8:23:13 GMT -5
I know there is a God because………
Last year we moved back to where my wife grew up. A very rural, farming community. Although I grew up helping on my great grandma's farm, I never really got into farming until our move back home. The first thing to catch my eye was this massive Macintosh Apple Tree across the street at my wife's grandma's house. I waited all summer for those little green apples to grow into fist size red delicious apples. Unfortunately, most of the apples were dropped on the ground and devoured up by wildlife. That was ok because there were a multitude of other apple tree's around, maturing at different times. We ended up processing apples from 3 other apple tree's, and made about 40 gallons of cider. Not to mention all the apple pie, apple crumble and apple sauce my wife was able to make. Now that's a lot of stuff!!!
When you come to think of it, it's pretty amazing. This one apple tree, which will live for about 30 yrs, can produce 500 apples each year weighing half a pound each. That's 250 lbs of food. And to think this huge apple tree started from a seed that was merely 5 cm big. The great thing about apple tree's is that they normally start to bear fruit as early as their second yr. Now they aren't going to produce 500 apples right off the bat, but they are on their way once they fully mature in a few more years.
If we look at this even closer we find out that each apple has about 6 seeds. 6 opportunities to start a sapling per fruit. Here is the most mind boggling thing about the apple tree. If it can produce 500 apples each year and each apple has 6 seeds, then the apple tree has the possibility of producing 3,000 tree's each year. Now lets say that the tree produces maximum fruit for 20 years, in the life span of an apple tree it can reproduce itself 60,000 times. That's an astounding 15 tons of food. All this from one little 5 cm seed.
I know there is a God because of the apple tree.
Last year we moved back to where my wife grew up. A very rural, farming community. Although I grew up helping on my great grandma's farm, I never really got into farming until our move back home. The first thing to catch my eye was this massive Macintosh Apple Tree across the street at my wife's grandma's house. I waited all summer for those little green apples to grow into fist size red delicious apples. Unfortunately, most of the apples were dropped on the ground and devoured up by wildlife. That was ok because there were a multitude of other apple tree's around, maturing at different times. We ended up processing apples from 3 other apple tree's, and made about 40 gallons of cider. Not to mention all the apple pie, apple crumble and apple sauce my wife was able to make. Now that's a lot of stuff!!!
When you come to think of it, it's pretty amazing. This one apple tree, which will live for about 30 yrs, can produce 500 apples each year weighing half a pound each. That's 250 lbs of food. And to think this huge apple tree started from a seed that was merely 5 cm big. The great thing about apple tree's is that they normally start to bear fruit as early as their second yr. Now they aren't going to produce 500 apples right off the bat, but they are on their way once they fully mature in a few more years.
If we look at this even closer we find out that each apple has about 6 seeds. 6 opportunities to start a sapling per fruit. Here is the most mind boggling thing about the apple tree. If it can produce 500 apples each year and each apple has 6 seeds, then the apple tree has the possibility of producing 3,000 tree's each year. Now lets say that the tree produces maximum fruit for 20 years, in the life span of an apple tree it can reproduce itself 60,000 times. That's an astounding 15 tons of food. All this from one little 5 cm seed.
I know there is a God because of the apple tree.
