Ok Clark you wore me down. After reading for years about how this apple will change my life, I’ve bought one.
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That’s about all it takes to get me thinking I need a new tree. I’m at the point where I’ll have to start sacrificing somehting in order to put in something new, or guilding things such that I’ll never get close enought to anything to collect the harvest. 
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You can grow this one for free ! Graft as many as you want there is no patent or trademark. I love them i hope everyone has one !
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now we need someone from AK growing it and we will have most of north america growing this apple.
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Keep us posted on how they do. Im interested in them but didn’t notice that they were on offer until after my scion order.
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Looks really good!
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Has anybody gotten Clark’s crab to Canada? I’d prefer to get one already on a rootstock, but maybe scions would be easier to get across the border…
my graft from last year is doing really well, I put it on my winter banana for safety!
I’ll let it get longer all summer, prune a bit, then hope for blooms next year.
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Does anyone thin the fruit on CC? Do they size up if thinned? Looks like a daunting task but might try on a branch to see result. Does it go biennial if un-thinned?
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What flowering group would you say CC is in ?
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The heavy bearing habit can be managed with pruning. It develops long hanging fruit spur branches that could be pruned back for bigger fruit. It seems to have a balanced growth habit when I don’t cut every inch of new growth to send out scion.
@rick Group 3 Mid bloom
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Cark’s fruit will be comical next to winter Banana
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my trees are allowed to look weird and funky! as long as there’s an apple on em
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I do that too, now I also have my South/ South-west facing branch sticking through that for when the tree is big enough to remove the fence.
A wonderful video from our favorite, SkillCult:
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Winter banana are huuuuge! That would be funny!
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If you don’t mind me asking, who did you use for DNA testing?
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Hmmm. Triple Southern Classic? Yates x Hall x Clark’s Crab?
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I’m with Mike @39thparallel : CC blooms mid-season. Both my grafts from last year are blooming with other mid-season trees Lamb Abbey, Gold Rush & Claygate.
Neither of my whips are big enough to allow fruiting yet, but CC is precocious from the start, for both bloomed after the grafts callused last year. I will probably thin one stringently to see how they size up with a lower seed set once they are transplanted.
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I’m thinking CC x Twenty Ounce might be a winner. If the seedling is even more precocious than Twenty Ounce, has at least average size fruit, tough wood that holds a crop, shrugs off diseases & keeps into April, well then…
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