What kind of fruit tree, and how did you come across it? If it’s a wild apple tree then it will almost certainly be awful.
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There's nearly 50 sprouting lychee trees in my house right now. I just saw online that they may bear sour fruit, and the best way to get sweet lychee fruit is to get a clone of the original, sweet-tasting plant. Idk if the chances of getting sweet fruit is as slim as it is with sprouting apple trees.
Among like 50 lychee trees, I have a feeling that at least one or two will bear sweet fruit. What do you think?
Btw, we only have a balcony and no land of our own to plant the dang trees in once they're big enough. I don't know what we got ourselves into, but I love it. 
Also, i just learned of mutant lychees that bear giant very sweet fruit the size of medium chicken eggs. And I'm greedily looking at pictures of this delicious treasure like: 
I wish so dearly that we had land and a mutant lychee tree.
I just saw online that they may bear sour fruit, and the best way to get sweet lychee fruit is to get a clone of the original, sweet-tasting plant.
I know fuck-all about lychee cultivation, but I know that this is true for many types of tree fruits, apples being possibly the worst. Banana trees are also basically all clones, in their case because the bananas we want can’t reproduce sexually.
Look into grafting (and lychee grafting in particular). You may be able to hobble together a Frankenlychee tree from several others. A farmer in Spain once showed me his Frankencitrus tree that grew oranges, lemons, and limes!