Look around the stores for some Pink Lady apples and buy some. Go home, eat the apple, collect all the seeds. Take those into the greenhouse and grow them. Take the resulting treelets home when you are forced out, and plant them everywhere. Next spring, graft them over to know cultivars. Keep the deer away from treelets using 4 foot tall fencing hoops, or circles.

The reason I recommend Pink Lady apples is because they have usually met the cold requirements for their particular seed, sometimes I find already sprouted seeds with a root a half inch long already inside the apple!

I think you are on to something, and you will be suprized at how fast you learn information.