Crabapple Varieties & guys' comments / input

[sandbur]

Update from camp on Dec. 8th - Winter Wildlife crabs from SLN are still holding 1" red crab apples. A WW crab planted in 2015 as a small whip is now 12 ft. tall and holding those red apples. Base of trunk is 2" dia.

Spring 2019 crabs to plant - 1 Chestnut crab and 1 Winter Wildlife crab. That'll bring our Chestnut crab total to 5, and our WW crab total to 4.

I blame my crab apple fever on 2 guys …………. Sandbur and Stu Smith. Boy - they do make good wildlife trees !!!

You been hangin’ with a bad crowd!

Stu pointed out that this tree is still holding some crabs.

It’s a rootstock on public land.


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Still holding and dropping some.

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I have about a dozen seeds drying from this tree. If anyone wants them, send me a pm.

Maybe they cold stratified on the tree, maybe not.


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[sandbur]

Update from camp on Dec. 8th - Winter Wildlife crabs from SLN are still holding 1" red crab apples. A WW crab planted in 2015 as a small whip is now 12 ft. tall and holding those red apples. Base of trunk is 2" dia.

Spring 2019 crabs to plant - 1 Chestnut crab and 1 Winter Wildlife crab. That'll bring our Chestnut crab total to 5, and our WW crab total to 4.

I blame my crab apple fever on 2 guys …………. Sandbur and Stu Smith. Boy - they do make good wildlife trees !!!

You been hangin’ with a bad crowd!

Stu pointed out that this tree is still holding some crabs.

It’s a rootstock on public land.


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Still holding and dropping some.

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I have about a dozen seeds drying from this tree. If anyone wants them, send me a pm.

Maybe they cold stratified on the tree, maybe not.


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They are headed to Michigan.


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[Rubee]

Thanks Sandbur. I appreciate the seeds. I’ll pot them up and do my best with them and keep you informed.

 

[sandbur]

Thanks Sandbur. I appreciate the seeds. I’ll pot them up and do my best with them and keep you informed.

Still holding some apples.

Now called the Courthouse Crab.


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[PoorSand]

Creative naming system. I like it. You end up with much shorter crabapple variety names than I do. I found one this weekend that I named "65 yards north of the driveway and 105 yards west of the fence post".

 

[sandbur]

Creative naming system. I like it. You end up with much shorter crabapple variety names than I do. I found one this weekend that I named "65 yards north of the driveway and 105 yards west of the fence post".

I just spent 90 minutes visiting with my crab apple buddy. He gave me some scion he calls Tanks. Similar to the Long Prairie crab he gave me a few years ago. He also has a Pillsbury from the road named that.

I have an Eden Valley and a Buckman crab... named after the towns in central Minnesota.


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[PoorSand]

The Pillsbury Road crab scions -- do those get grafted onto MN-25 rootstock (if you have your shovel in the truck when you spot them)?

 

[sandbur]

The Pillsbury Road crab scions -- do those get grafted onto MN-25 rootstock (if you have your shovel in the truck when you spot them)?

Or Mn 27.


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[Telemark]

Still holding some apples.

Now called the Courthouse Crab.


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Will you be offering scions from that one next winter?

 

[sandbur]

Still holding some apples.

Now called the Courthouse Crab.


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Will you be offering scions from that one next winter?

I wish that were true.

But given time .....


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[chummer]

My claim to Apple fame will be my “Centerfield Apple”. Simply because it is in the center of the field. Hopefully making it up Saturday to get some scion. I had 4 grafts make it last year so I am on my way. Hope to do another 10 this year.