[The teasing was not lost on Angeal and the man huffed out a heavy sigh, remembering those Dark Times in the beginning.]

Through trial and error, yes.

My first attempts were... thoroughly embarrassing. The trees died. It took over a year to grow my first tree that produced edible apples. [He chuckled.] Sometimes I'll have help picking them at harvest, but I can usually maintain everything on my own.

[He often preferred to be on his own. For a very long time believing it was his penance for how things had ended back home...]