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Ok this picture really doesn't do that justice.
You see a bunch of apples and think ok he collected seeds. No no, apple seeds do not grow an identical tree to what they came from. To get the identical product from an apple tree you have to cut a branch off the one you want to save and splice it onto a donor tree. So dude has to have a orchard with trees of different varieties and apple trees just generally have a limited lifespan and are also constantly trying to kill themselves in stupid ways.
Can confirm. My parents got 2 apple trees when I was a kid. One of them just kept trying as hard as it could to lean to one side. They had to put lots of steaks and straps on it to correct it for many years. That same tree then started growing apple flowers much earlier than it should and it would have so many apples that the branches would break under the weight. So my parents had to pick as many flowers as they could off the tree each year until it was a healthy size. Skip to today and it's a pretty healthy tree, but much smaller than the other tree that didn't try to do stupid shit to itself. Except this year, my parents had to pick all the apples early before they were ready because the branches started cracking and splitting. They tried to give it lots of extra water and strap the branches back together that they caught in time, but it still lost some for good. This tree just doesn't want to tree.
you cant save someone if they want to sucide