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Kerr wasn’t dropping very well. A good handshake helped.

 

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The Buckman Crab is still at work.

 

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Big Dog and Yellow Dog topworks on dolgo rootstocks.

 

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Seedling from a wild crab.

Almost any crab dropping fruit right now is working. We have had cold and snow. Temps down to -28 at daybreak.

Dolgo seedlings seem to be winners. Somehow I lost a picture of another dolgo seedling that someone on here helped me name Clown’s Nose. It is still dropping fruit and attracting deer. Several dolgo seedlings are done dropping. I have two purchased ( grafted) dolgo trees from nurseries. One is dropping some fruit and the older tree is pretty much done.


Noran, Courthouse Crab, and another Buckman Crab are young trees that are holding just a bit of fruit.

 

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How old is that tree? 15 years?
Just curious, we planted some at my Club during Covid, we call them the Covid crabs but they are a mix of Morse crabs.

I suspect more like 20 years. He sold bunches red and bunches yellow at the time. Some were not hardy for me. They were seedlings with fruit up to about 3/4 inch in size.