Crabapple Varieties & guys' comments / input

[Bowsnbucks]

I don't know what it is, but it sure looks like a winner !! Your potted trees look really good. The size of the apples and the late hanging trait are perfect. Keep us posted on the potted trees.

You may get requests for scion !!!

 

[Telemark]

I have been watching this tree in a parking lot of an apartment complex for about 5 years now and it looks like it could be a winner for a late hanger in a deer orchard. It has held fruit to March 2 years. I grafted this to b118 rootstock last spring they are doing awesome. Very vigorous and the insects seem to leave it alone compared to my centennials and Dolgo in my nursery. It has very vibrant deep pink blossoms. A red colored wood and leaves and a pink almost orange flesh. Anybody have an idea of what it could be.

New variety you can patent?!?!?

 

[Charles Clear]

Those look awesome!

 

[buckvelvet]

I have used it , too. Mixed results.


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I work in an office, tree-kote does not come off with out using a washed cloth like it was sand paper.......

 

[sandbur]

Several seedlings still holding. ( so is Kerr, but no pictures of it).

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[Bowsnbucks]

Sandbur - I just wanted to report on the scions you sent me from the Buckman and the ABC crabs. Art's Berry crab is leading the Buckman for how far they've opened. Both look to be opening in good shape. My bucket with grafts in is sitting in my unheated garage. I grafted a Minnesota 1734 too and it's made the most progress. The Buckman is slower than the others, but the buds are swollen and I see tiny glimpses of green at the tips of the buds. I'll give them another 10 days to 2 weeks in the garage & then ease them outdoors in the shade. I'll keep you posted. - - - Thanks again for the scions, Art !!

 

[sandbur]

Sandbur - I just wanted to report on the scions you sent me from the Buckman and the ABC crabs. Art's Berry crab is leading the Buckman for how far they've opened. Both look to be opening in good shape. My bucket with grafts in is sitting in my unheated garage. I grafted a Minnesota 1734 too and it's made the most progress. The Buckman is slower than the others, but the buds are swollen and I see tiny glimpses of green at the tips of the buds. I'll give them another 10 days to 2 weeks in the garage & then ease them outdoors in the shade. I'll keep you posted. - - - Thanks again for the scions, Art !!

I will check those two seedlings and see if the pattern exists with ABC being ahead of the Buckman Crab.

My scion is still sitting in a cooler in the garage and I am only topworking this year.

Small Chunk is doing some custom grafting for me! Maybe he will chime in on how they are progressing.

I have a MN 1734 coming into second leaf.


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[sandbur]

Sandbur - I just wanted to report on the scions you sent me from the Buckman and the ABC crabs. Art's Berry crab is leading the Buckman for how far they've opened. Both look to be opening in good shape. My bucket with grafts in is sitting in my unheated garage. I grafted a Minnesota 1734 too and it's made the most progress. The Buckman is slower than the others, but the buds are swollen and I see tiny glimpses of green at the tips of the buds. I'll give them another 10 days to 2 weeks in the garage & then ease them outdoors in the shade. I'll keep you posted. - - - Thanks again for the scions, Art !!

Which rootstock did you put them on?


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[Bowsnbucks]

MM-111 and B-118.

 

[sandbur]

Kerr crab still holding as of April 24.

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[Jhoss]

An off year for Zumi. I’ll quote myself. “A good crop every year- a great crop every other year”

 

[sandbur]

An off year for Zumi. I’ll quote myself. “A good crop every year- a great crop every other year”
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Do the deer use them much?

I have some bunches from Morse. The deer use one of the trees. Two more are ignored and most of the rest were not winter hardy or marginal to die back every 5 years or so. They were seedlings.


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[Jhoss]

One of my best deer trees. Drops till Xmas.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

As Jhoss mentioned at post #191, I've noticed the "on year - off year" cycle with our small-fruited crabs too. But the off years still have lots of apples on those trees. The on years have ridiculous amounts of apples, to the point of drooping branches. Nature's way, I guess.

 

[Jhoss]

As Jhoss mentioned at post #191, I've noticed the "on year - off year" cycle with our small-fruited crabs too. But the off years still have lots of apples on those trees. The on years have ridiculous amounts of apples, to the point of drooping branches. Nature's way, I guess.

This describes Zumi to a "T"!
And a different story for American crab, is completely biennial...so loaded again this year, I will be propping up branches (or losing them) - twas absolutely bare of fruit last year.

 

[H20fwler]

A NWC DropTine that I just planted this spring has really taken off, it was a little whip a couple months ago and has branched out and tried to makes apples (pinched them off).

I think I put in eight new NWC this spring and all of them are doing really well, that was the only one that fruited.

 

[sandbur]

A couple more seedlings have their first apples this year. Can’t wait to taste them!

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[sandbur]

This Kerr crab has similar sized apples and is bearing for the first year.


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[sandbur]

Last spring I saw this crab in bloom and marked it’s location near a township road.

It appears to be striped.


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[sandbur]

Some other seedlings that have fruited for several years.


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