This spring I put two I on EMLA111 and they are growing great, I put 5 on another crabapple (Eliza) and they are growing vigorously too.
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my clarks crab on m111 still hasnt put on much growth from last year but is once again loaded with fruit. im waiting until they get quarter sized before thinning. other than slow growth the tree is healthy. you would be hard pressed to train a tree to be so perfectly proportioned. should be able to handle a good crop easily.
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Finally was allowed a short foray into the yard and went to my grafting/rooting area where the new starts are. My Clark’s on B10 is oddly nowhere to be found
Was happy to see a few pears and apples finally leafing the grafts. Then was astounded rounding to my cart of pear scions I rooted. Literally over 100 have leafed out.
I’ll be happy to be out of surgery jail. But have another week until the other half of staples are removed.
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praying for a quick recovery for you Darren.
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Both my grafts were to Bud118. Each is at least two feet tall now. One bloomed & set three fruit. I covered the king fruit with a footie & will pick it about the same time as Gold Rush in later October. I may wait until Christmas to try it. (The other two fruits I cut away, since I want to encourage both upper & root growth this season before digging them out of the root mass.)
I need to put in more chips for root growth as this is a - sort of - stooling situation. Sort of, insofar as these are root suckers after cutting to the ground and a hardware cloth barrier keeps a couple inches of wood shavings in for root growth above ground.
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@dannytoro1 a speedy recovery for you so you can safely get back to your trees & grafts. No fun!
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Glad to see @Richard doing well with these in California Clark's Crab in Vista CA
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I though that i had read someplace that the tree that the seeds came from for Clarks Crab was in Michigan, is that correct? Not that it matters, just curious.
I was able to get 2 grafts to take of Clarks Crab this spring. One is on B-118 rootstock, that one will go in my friends foodplot for the deer. The other successful graft is on B-9 and that is already planted in my yard.
Thank you @39thparallel for the scion wood, you have a top notch business.
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That is where my seeds came from was Michigan. The seedling was grown here in Kansas on my farm with its many siblings. @39thparallel fell in love with it when he saw it on an orchard walk at my place.
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Clustering up nicely!
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I grafted Clark’s crab to both pacific crab and G214 this spring to see how they do. Fingers crossed!
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mine are tiny but on a small tree. going to hit it with a little fertilizer to see if i can bulk them up some.
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I think I have a topwork or two of CC that are alive and growing. I’ll be interested to see if it does better there than it did when W/T grafted to wild apple.
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Enterprise and Crispen would be great crosses for size, if that’s you’re thinking.
Granny Smith, and Pink Lady would be great for increasing the crunch, texture, and storage life.
I feel like you’re trying to make a heavy bearing tree. How’s Twenty Ounce (Cayuga Red Streak) with storability?
Also Wolf River is very similar to Twenty Ounce, apparently even bigger though, and quite precocious! I got one from @39thparallel and it flowered weeks after planting, I plucked the 2 lower flowers but left the 3rd because it was on massive Bud 9 roots already, but it seems like it didn’t actually produce a fruit, at least not one that survived the animals.
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I thought of Twenty Ounce because it is growing in the yard and has large fruit. It keeps 4-5 weeks. Those characteristics combined with some of Clark’s Crab strengths: tough wood, high fertility, long storage, might produce offspring worth keeping and propagating.
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I’m curious to see how many people are eating this apple this year! It’s sibling and I wanted to say hello from Kansas.
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What a shape change! And redder of course.
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‘Clark’s Crab’ is still looking a ways off from ripe here in Western Washington. I’ve actually got a large in ground (top worked a wild crab) that is carrying a crop, and also an own-root tree still growing in a pot that is also carrying a crop. There are actually way too many apples on the potted specimen so they are considerably smaller compared to those on the in ground tree, but I can’t thin them because I want as many seeds as possible from the potted specimen which was mostly pollinated by ‘Pendragon’ (a precocious, red fleshed apple).
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Wow, I had better go out and check mine. Looks delicious.
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