Question
I read one of the answers about by seed-do you need to wait until fall to plant or can you plant indoors once germinated and then transplant outdoors in the fall? I have seeds already from our mini orchard. Also, how do and when you get cuttings from an established tree? Are there any reference websites that one can refer back to?

Answer
Hi Jennifer,
Thanx for your questions.  If you have seedlings now, go ahead and place them outdoors in the shade for 10 days and then plant in full sun.  If you just have seeds now, they are not going to germinate in time to plant outdoors.  You will have to grow them indoors until spring.  You may also wait until fall, plant the seeds in a pot and leave the pot outdoors for the winter making sure that you water it often so it doesn't dry completely out.  Germination should take place in the spring.  Generally, cuttings from hybrids aren't recommended unless they are going to be grafted onto a hardy root stock.  Hybrids tend to be weak and need a hardy root stock like many apple varieties are grafted onto hardy crabapple rootstock.  Take cuttings in the late spring.  I recommend green, soft growth stripped of all but the last two or three leaves and no blooms or fruit, about 6 inches long.  Dip in rooting hormone which you can get at a nursery or garden store.  Put the cutting one inch into the a pot of moist, warm sand and keep the cuttings spritzed, the sand moist and the bottom warm.  They'll usually start rooting in about 8 weeks.

Here is a website from the University of California-Davis about cuttings, grafting, etc.  I hope this helps.
Tom

http://homeorchard.ucdavis.edu/general-prop.html