I got my first (and only) Wickson crab apple today.
Excellent taste. Very tart and also super sweet (Brix 21). Definite keeper.
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Never fear; you’ll be harvesting buckets of them before you know it. Wickson bears heavily. I just picked mine, and they’re very good this season.
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Glad it did well for you. Mine vanished in thin air…
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I had a graft that was just starting to get productive (as possible in the 15 gal pot I could afford) when an irrigation failure doomed the whole tree it was grafted onto. I bought a ‘Wickson’ tree from Redwood Empire CRFG’s sale last year and I can’t wait until it’s ready to bear. I love this cultivar!
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I’m strongly considering planting a ‘Wickson’ crabapple, but I wanted to check with those growing it about the nature of its long hanging ability. In my observation, long hanging apples can go two ways, those which stay in the tree for a good while after technically ripe, but eventually fall, and those which just hang in the tree so long that they rot in place.
Does anyone have any observations regarding whether ‘Wickson’ is long hanging, but eventually drops or is it long hanging and will rot in the tree if left un-picked?
I ask because I’m considering planting a standard size ‘Wickson’ which will grow too large to be able to reach all the fruit for picking. My hope is that the unpicked fruit will fall naturally so that my sheep and chickens can enjoy them, but I don’t want to plant one if a lot of the un-picked fruit will just rot in the tree.