Anaros Crab

[CrazyEd]

One fruit in my nursery on a tree I grafted April 2015.

Comments:: Fruit: size, 40mm; round, somewhat flattened, diam; skin yellow, nearly covered with crimson; flesh yellow, mellow when ripe; fair for canning, excellent for jelly; matures mid-Sept. Tree: Very hardy, strong grower, heavy bearer. "About the healthiest and hardiest crab grown", John Lloyd, Lloyds Fruit Nursery, Adanac, SK, CA.

 

[yoderjac]

Interesting sounding crab. I understand the ripening time is last September to late October. Where did you get your scions?

 

[CrazyEd]

Interesting sounding crab. I understand the ripening time is last September to late October. Where did you get your scions?

I got mine from Aero but it is available on GRIN. That description above is from the GRIN website.

https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/accessiondetail.aspx?id=1002819

I have a few more I grafted spring 2016, one is my tallest graft from this year's class of trees.

Here's a random picture from google.

 

[buckvelvet]

CE, i have some big ol trees in my nursery from grafting this year, Anaros is the least vigorous. I wonder why that would be, wierd ah?


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[CrazyEd]

CE, i have some big ol trees in my nursery from grafting this year, Anaros is the least vigorous. I wonder why that would be, wierd ah?


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In my opinion how a graft does depends on a bunch of variables. Maybe your graft wasn't that great and took longer to heal. Maybe the rootstock was a weaker one in the bunch. Maybe your scionwood was so so.

2 years ago I got some Florina scionwood from Aero and I grafted 5 trees in that bunch, all were insane growers. I took scionwood from those same trees that I had grafted, grafted more trees this spring and they have been only average.

 

[sandbur]

Matt- can you see any disease on that Anaros?

My anaros has not been vigorous.

 

[aerospacefarmer]

Matt- can you see any disease on that Anaros?

My anaros has not been vigorous.

I never had any disease on my Anaros crabs. Their worst enemy has been me backing over them with my tractor or scraping them with my bucket loader. They are a very good tasting crab. I have had them hang into January but early bloomers so I got no fruit this year due to late frost. Great pollinator.

 

[buckvelvet]

I love all the observations about 1 variety, the different experiences interests me greatly. My Anaros is very healthy looking, ill be unwrapping later, it has pear like qualities as in it looks like a stinkin pear tree jn its coloring.


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[Bowsnbucks]

That Anaros looks like it would make a perfect wildlife crab, fruit size-wise. Deer would be able to get one in it's mouth easily, I think.

 

[CrazyEd]

I love all the observations about 1 variety, the different experiences interests me greatly. My Anaros is very healthy looking, ill be unwrapping later, it has pear like qualities as in it looks like a stinkin pear tree jn its coloring.


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I removed the tape from all the trees in my nursery this past week. it's amazing how quickly the trees heal up. I had a few (20) rootstocks that were failed grafts from 2015 that grew into 4-6' b118 whips that were in my nursery. I cut them off at 2' and cleft'd them in the middle of June and I took the tape off those already too, all were looking very solid.

 

[buckvelvet]

I removed the tape from all the trees in my nursery this past week. it's amazing how quickly the trees heal up. I had a few (20) rootstocks that were failed grafts from 2015 that grew into 4-6' b118 whips that were in my nursery. I cut them off at 2' and cleft'd them in the middle of June and I took the tape off those already too, all were looking very solid.

June graft and healed by July, that is crazy fast. Your still my grafting hero CE!

 

[CrazyEd]

June graft and healed by July, that is crazy fast. Your still my grafting hero CE!

6/4 to be exact. These ones i strayed away from my usual tactic of using the 1" teflon plumbing tape. I just used some 1/2" wax / parafilm grafting tape. I still like the plumbing tape for bench grafts. When I was doing the removal it's like taking off a cast. Just make one solid slit mark up the tape and through the wax. Then it just kind of peals off and comes off just like a cast.

 

[SmallChunk]

Now I'm bummed that my Anaros from GRIN didn't take off this spring :(

 

[CrazyEd]

June 4th I did around 20 cleft grafts on some b.118 roots that had grown into 4-6' whips. I think I had 18 out of 20 take and all of them have grown at least 12". Pulled the tape off late last week and they are all healed up nicely.

 

[CrazyEd]

Now I'm bummed that my Anaros from GRIN didn't take off this spring :(

I have been trying to graft Golden Hornet for 3 years now and probably 10 roots and I still haven't been able to get one to take. I feel your pain! Just gotta keep cuttin' brother!

 

[buckvelvet]

I think everyone has their nemesis in grafting, winesap is mine, its a apple i really want to grow & try but 2 years in a row leaves me without.

 

[aerospacefarmer]

I had that same problem with Yarlington Mill but finally what I thought was a failed graft rose like a Phoenix from the ashes and is doing great wooohooo