First an apple has to break down and spend a
winter or better be eaten by some animal and spread by natural dissemination
elsewhere in the droppings of the animal, where it will be naturally stratified
with a passing cold season and will germinate next Spring.
If seeds were to sprout
inside an apple, the cotyledons (the first false leaves that develops when the
sprout unfolds itself) would not be able to reach the light going through it's
casing and the thick somewhat hard pulp and the growth process would be chocked.
Also, another scenario would be that if the seeds in the apples fallen under a
tree were to germinate as such, there soon would be a thick cluster of apple
trees of all sizes under the parent tree competing for space. Nature is a lot
smarter.
Just a personal view.
But since the question has been brought up, I have seen a case of
germination in a fruit and I will tell you about it.
I had a variety of tomato called Longkeeper, that were meant to be picked
green and slowly turn orange over the winter. The taste was not fantastic but it
meant fresh tomatoes in the winter. Those tomatoes sure were good keepers. Once
I cut a fresh tomato in March (picked in September) and found that the
seeds had germinated inside the plant. I though this too weird and I queried
about the Longkeeper. I discovered that it was genetically modified!!?!
Developpers had implanted a gene of scorpio in the genetic makeup of the
tomato for longkeeping.
I am now back to canned tomatoes.
Just another personal view.
Hélène
D.