I’d advise you not to do it. You start with one graft “just a taste”, but you almost always end up with 200+ trees in your backyard and your wife begging you to stop approaching random strangers in the street to talk about your apple varieties. 
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Maybe the propper name should be Clark’s seedling. How big is the fruit when thinned to a single fruit per cluster in “average” conditions? I guess I will find out soon enough, a couple of grafts of it took last year, and although growth is less than impressive they are likely to keep growing and eventually giving me apples.
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the tree is only 5.5ft. my fault asi let too many fruit stay on the tree stunting its growth. while it didnt grow taller the last couple years it bulked up its trunk by double since planted.
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This is so true
Grafting is dangerous and should be approached with caution!
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Or your wife begging you to not stop at that random house to ask about the wild apple tree in their ditch.
LOL. All too much fun
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Great article. Thanks for the reminder!
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This sounds like a good thing to me!
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Anyone have new photos?
The borers are the young that come out of the eggs they put inside the tree, then they turn in to flying insects that puts new eggs in to trees.
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This is the first time I have dealt with dogwood borers.
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Experimenting with thining to different numbers. This is across two separate trees. I believe grafts are both two years old on each. I’ll make sure to keep track of size and weight when harvesting…still a ways to go here.
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Has anyone tried rooting cuttings of this variety? I am wondering how it would be on it’s own roots, verses on root stock.
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@JohannsGarden offers own-root Clark’s crab.
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Awesome to know that @JohannsGarden sells it on it’s own roots, although I am still wondering how well it does on it’s own roots. It may be too early to tell.
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Well, the original tree was own-root and it did well enough to gain a cult following.
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Looks very promising!
How did you root it? Air layer?
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Nurse roots and then grafts buried. The ‘Clark’s Crab’ were not quick to push their own roots, but given enough time they eventually rooted above the grafts.
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Exactly how I am starting my P.14 rootstock grafts. Nurse rootstock.
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Establishing it as own-root is actually a good thought regarding the precocity and profuse fruiting of this variety. That may slow its initial bloom and fruit set
In the case of the remaining graftling I shifted to its permanent spot (the other was hauled to TOC in Oregon), it did not set any fruit this year. How much of that is due to its need to build a root base, cut away from the rest of the old stock, and the 3 freezes in a row while blooming, I cannot yet say. It needs to get bigger anyway.
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