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Gross

Never heard of it, what feature(s) make it appealing to you?

I'm around 200 fruit trees, 60+ varieties, and about 75 of those trees are producing fruit. If I replanted everything all over today, over half would be Droptine Crabapples. Nothing else that I have comes close in terms of vigor, reliability, yield, disease resistance and ease of...

TS, Here is my Hybrid Pear 6 weeks ago, decent crop.

It was tagged as being on b118. It's definitely not a grown out b118.

Not impossible. Bought it as a 3yo 7'+ tree. If that's the case, it happened on Morse's watch.

Thanks Marlin, hopefully just a conditions issue and it comes around. Last year was a late frost, another year I sprayed insecticide while in bloom (learned my error after it was too late). Forgot about the cool weather this spring, explains why many of my apples didn't produce what I expected...

This tree was bought during the Charlie era, it's grown great. Crop is just abysmal when compared to my other crabs. Pollination shouldn't be an issue, has a Liberty directly on one side and a Kerr on the other. The pic on their site shows fruit growing in clusters, I have have single...

Anyone have a well producing Morse Nova Scotia Crab? I have one that I planted about 7 years ago, great growing tree, probably 18' tall now. Doesn't produce squat. Seems like it puts out a good amount of blossoms each spring, but drops fruit all summer long, so there is near nothing left by...

About 5 years ago I ordered 100 m111 rootstocks and grafted dozens of different varieties of crabs and apples. Can't say I've noticed a big general difference between apples and crabs...but Droptine and 30-06 have been standout performers of the group. Just like their parent trees have been for...

I refuse to participate in the propagation of this god awful apple nor will I ever accept that it has any redeeming qualities. May it suffer the same fate as the passenger pigeon, sabre tooth tiger, T Rex, etc.

I have Williams Pride on m111, seems to be doing just fine without any spraying. I ate my first apple off it a week ago, seeds were slightly white still. Decent flavor, but kind of mealy and thick skinned. Reminded me of eating a red delicious but better tasting.

Harvested some Trailman and Centennial today (along with a nice peach crop and a couple Pristines). First time trying Centennial, tasty little treat, but Trailman is still my favorite. Not many made it past the car ride home.

Frost could have been the culprit last year, but not this year. It gets a fair amount of blossoms, but not much fruit. Pollination shouldn't be an issue at all, several other varieties close by and they're carrying decent fruit loads. My hope is that in a year or two it'll flip a switch and...

I have one planted in 2019 on P18. Out of 200ish trees it's definitely in top 5 for growth rate and very possibly the top. Poor producer so far though. Just a handful of apples each year. Not sure if it's the rootstock or what.