I wouldn't do either this late.Is it still time to do a major chop or airlayer on crab apple this late in the season?
Is there a preferred Crabtree cultivar?
I know it could depend on what I’m going after, flowers, fruit, ramification, zone, etc. But I just learned that a couple junipers had better foliage than others (by far it sounds like) and this knowledge seemed well known to those who work junipers.
I just started looking into crabs and was just wondering what the top kinds are, if there are any. I tried searching but my net seems to be to wide or I don’t know how to ask the right questions. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I wouldn't do either this late.
Thank you. Brent’s wonderful descriptions were mentioned earlier and I read through them already. I wasn’t sure what to pick between the one that is more twiggy or the one that was a popular choice, but I didn’t even consider disease resistance! Thank you for that insight, I will read it all again and base my choice off of that.@TyroTinker
Read through the list on Evergreen Gardenwork's website. The best cultivars are the ones that include notes about being disease resistant. I assume in the PNW you will have trouble with powdery mildew or downy mildew and leaf spotting diseases. Pick a cultivar known to be disease resistant. Brent has nice notes about each cultivar.
This is the best time to chop any decidious tree.As leaf buds push?
No idea what it is, but something like that killed damn near all of my apple trees. It infected pretty much all of them at once, too, which made me think it was either in the soil or coming from a nearby stand of crabs. I'm rather salty about that; it took out four nursery trees, several fruiting trees (those weren't for bonsai), and dozens of seedlings.Any Crabbies here recognize this symptom? This has been getting worse for about a week. I removed the affected leaves, isolated the plant on the other side of the yard, and bleach-wiped my tools. Treated with Bayer systemic.View attachment 200143
Two near snaps on that one so it had to stay thereNice tree.
Take a look at the top of the tree, on the right of your carving: I think the branche there is perhaps too curvy and by repositioning it a little, you can fill the middle part of the canopy a bit more? Just a thought.