Crabapple timeline

[sandbur]

Sweet dog a good deer tree? Also, you have frostbite apple at your place sanbur?

Hunting 3 days at camp. Will do some scouting for new places to put trees. Got 10 anty, 5 m111, and 2 onx87 pear rootstocks coming from mehrabyan in ithaca again. Probably most will be your crabapple finds. M111's will be courthouse, liberty macoun, and maybe noran.

You plant any m111's at your place? Debating whether they're zone 3 suitable. Got anty, siberian, dolgo, and a b118 up there on the sandy zone 3 soil so far. Not sure I got a bad batch or m111's, just seems they dont take off with crabapples like they do with apples.

Sweet Dog would serve as a deer tree. I just finished picking them and stripped the tree in the home orchard.

The original tree is in a ‘no go area’ as I posted above.

I have frostbite. It rested this year. Just a few apples.

I might have one M111. A buddy brought me the Firecracker and suspects that is the rootstock under it.

I don’t have Siberian rootstock but do have ranetka and they seem to be doing well. They are not on my sandiest soils, but on my better soil.

 

[sandbur]

Sweet dog a good deer tree? Also, you have frostbite apple at your place sanbur?

Hunting 3 days at camp. Will do some scouting for new places to put trees. Got 10 anty, 5 m111, and 2 onx87 pear rootstocks coming from mehrabyan in ithaca again. Probably most will be your crabapple finds. M111's will be courthouse, liberty macoun, and maybe noran.

You plant any m111's at your place? Debating whether they're zone 3 suitable. Got anty, siberian, dolgo, and a b118 up there on the sandy zone 3 soil so far. Not sure I got a bad batch or m111's, just seems they dont take off with crabapples like they do with apples.

I seem to remember you asking about an applecrab that drops through the middle to end of October. Firecracker is about 80% dropped at this time. Also known as Bill’s Red Flesh.

 

[sandbur]

How's the flavor on the Buckmans?
I have a couple planted, but no production yet.

I tasted one tonight. I don’t know all of the fancy terms, but I can eat it. Quite acid. Most people wouldn’t be impressed.

 

[sandbur]

Big Doh started it’s heavy drop today. My records show that the drop started on 10-23 last year.

 

[sandbur]

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Big Doh started it’s heavy drop today. My records show that the drop started on 10-23 last year.

It’s not disease free but has done well with no spray.

 

[sandbur]

Violi’s is slowly dropping fruit and has a small scrape under it.

This is a graft from a wild tree that I call Guard Dog. It usually starts dropping about Veterans Day.

Noran is holding just a few fruit, but my phone went dead from the cold, so no pictures.

 

[H20fwler]

A four year old Briar Lane on anty here at the house. Looking forward to watching this one during winter in a few years.

 

[sandbur]

A four year old Briar Lane on anty here at the house. Looking forward to watching this one during winter in a few years.
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Did you taste any?

 

[BuckSutherland]

Art,


What crabs are dropping the heaviest right now? Halloween day.

 

[sandbur]

Art,


What crabs are dropping the heaviest right now? Halloween day.

Big Dog is the heaviest dropper. There is a small scrape under it and I have 6-8 of those scrapes under the fifteen or twenty trees closest to my house. I am staying out of the other areas until rifle opener.

 

[sandbur]

I seeded part of the adjacent garden to turnips and radishes. Deer are eating the radish tops, but not the turnips.

 

[sandbur]

Buck, I snapped this picture in our zone 1 deer hunting area. These three deer are standing on an old beaver house. I don’t know why unless it has some fresh green growth on it.

 

[BuckSutherland]

^^^ Probably trying to evade some wolves. I just came home from the doctor. I saw 3 deer laying in the middle of a harvested 160 acre soybean field. They were laying there when I went by at 2pm and still laying in the same spot when I came home at 4pm. Raining on them all afternoon. They were arranged to pretty much watch every direction.

 

[bigboreblr]

Hows your kerr's doing? Might need another tree or two on the farmand. Kerr, big dog, blue pearmain, galarina, and 2 30-06's.

 

[sandbur]

^^^ Probably trying to evade some wolves. I just came home from the doctor. I saw 3 deer laying in the middle of a harvested 160 acre soybean field. They were laying there when I went by at 2pm and still laying in the same spot when I came home at 4pm. Raining on them all afternoon. They were arranged to pretty much watch every direction.

I had thought about that but am not sure how well they would evade in the water.

Hows your kerr's doing? Might need another tree or two on the farmand. Kerr, big dog, blue pearmain, galarina, and 2 30-06's.

The Kerr at home didn’t produce fruit and isn’t doing well. The one outback was loaded with fruit but I haven’t checked it in 4-5 weeks.

 

[H20fwler]

Did you taste any?

Yes, they are bitter.
But, kind of orange flesh!

The mother tree in town that I took the scions from has all kinds of birds and rabbits under it all winter long non stop.
Very persistent slow steady drop all winter long and huge crops annually.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

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I seeded part of the adjacent garden to turnips and radishes. Deer are eating the radish tops, but not the turnips.

Radish tops go first here too. Turnips later on. Turnip bulbs seem to get dug up all winter long here - teeth marks and chewed up. Nice looking greens, Art.

 

[sandbur]

This apple is dropping now and is still edible. The scion we got from the days when we could access the GRIN repository. This scion was labeled as Jonsib Crab. I wonder about the ID.

Does this look like an ornamental crab?

 

[Ruffdude]

I was cleaning gutters last week and took a picture of my backyard crab from the roof.
This is an ornamental I think, Oriental or Japanese crab. It sits on the edge of my septic field, it was here when I bought the house, ruffed grouse eat the fruit throughout the Winter and rabbits risk their lives by entering the fenced dog yard to clean up the droppings.
It bears fruit this heavily nearly every year. Only once has it provided a light crop but in my 13 years here it has never taken a season off.

 

[bigboreblr]

Looks a lot like the crabapples I have at work. That an English setter?