Crabapple yellowing

[Droptine]

Can anyone verify if this is scab or some other issue on our crabapple trees? What can we do to save the remaining leaves. The trees where green and healthy less than 2 weeks ago. MN zone 3.

 

[chickenlittle]

Only the first photo looks scabby.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

Your issue looks a lot like a few trees I have by my house. They were doing good a month ago, then they started looking sick and all the leaves fell off. One just started growing new leaves again, but two others don't appear to be showing signs of life. Those two trees did the same thing last summer though and I thought they might be dead, but they looked fine this spring.

I have no advice other than to say even if they lose all their leaves in mid-summer they could spring back to life next year.

 

[Apple Junkie]

First on looks like cedar apple rust disease to me. That might set the tree back a bit, but unlikely to do too much serious damage. I have that on some of my trees too. The other two pics look like a different issue which I am not familiar with. Most trees are remarkably tough, so my guess is they will bounce back. Good luck.

 

[Barndog56]

Scab is more like this, then leaves worsen and turn yellow. Yours are yellowing without all the scab spots, so I'm pretty sure it's something else. I'm not experienced with anything else.

 

[CrazyEd]

This is what CAR looks like. To me it doesn't look like CAR or scab. Does it have wet feet or excessive moisture? What about drift from spraying in the area?

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[chummer]

Looks they were sprayed by something. I have made a few of my trees look like that.

 

[Droptine]

I checked the treed this weekend and the yellow leaves are now gone (dropped). The trees look great, not sure what caused them to yellow. We did have t T-storm with some wind just prior to the leaves turning.

 

[MojoRisin]

I'd like to piggy-back into this thread as I am in a similar predicament. Hope people don't mind. Fruit tree newbie here. I planted 4 apples and 2 pears splitting the 3 in 2 different areas. 1 pear and 2 apples in spot A are doing well. The other 3 in spot B have lost most leaves and the others look yellow. Sorry, no pics. I do know that those tree do have wet feet. We've had loads of rain in the UP if MI where the trees are. Trail cam pics showed them basically under water for a couple of weeks.

So now I know I will want to relocate them. I'm guessing I would want to do that next spring, say in April, when they are dormant. Is it worth a try? Can they still survive?