Emily Kwong
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Podcast Appearances
They have to cut up all the apples and then extract the seeds by hand and then plant them.
This is so labor-intensive.
So this is also why, on average, it takes maybe 20 years to develop a new apple.
There's a lot of waiting and patience and work involved.
Anyway, Susan will then plant these newfangled seeds in a giant greenhouse.
Okay, and the seeds grow into apple trees.
Uh, not quite...
They become apple seedlings, these toddler trees, which Susan and her team transplant onto tree bases called rootstocks because it speeds up the process of them bearing fruit.
So each seedling becomes like an apple branch and produces two, three apples, which Susan and her team then have to taste test.
She throws out the literal bad apples.
She does.
And sometimes they're all bad.
Because you spit them out?
Oh, yeah.
And apparently there's several rounds of testing.
It's like the American Idol, but of apple tasting.
And she's Simon Cowell.