In a hurry?

I had a surprise when cutting up apples for Eb the other day! A germinating seed! Usually seeds wait until the apple is rotten, or even longer, before starting to grow, while this apple was bruised it wasn't rotten. The only other phenomenon I can think of close to this is vivipary, where seeds begin to germinate while still attached to the mother plant, I've only seen this once or twice in corn during really rainy seasons and it is devastating to the farmer's yields. I don't think this qualifies as vivipary though, since the apple is not still on the tree.

What do you think? Have you ever seen this before?