[NAFEX] crab apples

Ginda Fisher list at ginda.us
Thu Aug 5 17:23:32 EDT 2010


The ornamental crabs of my childhood, and those in my backyard, taste terrible.  They vary a great deal (the ones I have now are all seedlings) but all are very bitter, most are dry, and none is very sweet.  They do taste like apple.  But I wouldn't want to make jelly out of them.

Ginda
 
On Aug 5, 2010, at 11:28 AM, anne bianca wrote:

> Speaking of childhood memories of growing up with crabapples, we had one with green fruit.  I guess it was similar to a Granny Smith because the fruit was larger than two inches.  When I look up crabapples, none of them seem to bear green apples.  I really don't think it was a Granny Smith.  It grew on Long Island, NY, so it did get pretty cold there.
> Any ideas out there of what it could have been - I also believe it was grown from seed or a seedling from Mastic Beach...a native of some kind?
> 
> --- On Wed, 8/4/10, Dr. Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman at murraystate.edu> wrote:
> 
> From: Dr. Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman at murraystate.edu>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] crab apples
> To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 11:34 AM
> 
> Dolgo is good.  Centennial and Kerr - both Dolgo offspring - are good, both
> for eating out of hand and making jelly - I made several pints recently from
> less-than perfect fruits of Centennial & Kerr, with some of the larger
> red-fleshed(Geneva, Giant Russian, Almata, Winter Red Flesh) thrown in for
> additional color, as well as some from a little Dolgo-type seedling that I
> never got around to topworking. 
> Ran out of commercial pectin, but the last batch jelled just fine without
> it; probably didn't even need it to start with.
> Both of these varieties are larger than the typical ornamental crab fruits -
> 1.5-2+ inches in diameter.
> I've used 'ornamental' crabs for years.  There were two huge old
> rosybloom-type crabs at my childhood home that were great for crabapple
> jelly - and as kids, we'd fill our pockets with those tart little morsels
> and munch 'til we got a bellyache.
> 
> Lucky Pittman
> Hopkinsville, KY
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ernest Plutko
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 11:56 AM
> To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] crab apples
> 
> Dolgo crab is excellent.  Municipal plantings are probably trees for
> spring flowers.  These crab apples are often bitter.  Taste them to
> see if they are sweet.
> 
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: debs913 at gmail.com
> To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: RE: [NAFEX] crab apples
> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:44:18 -0400
> 
> >I want to make crab apple jelly this year and was wondering if using
> >apples
> >picked from municipal plantings would work?  Most of the apples are
> >small
> >_1-1/2 inch diameter.
> >
> >I'd like to plant a crab apple tree for jelly also...any suggestions
> >of
> >varieties that are particularly disease resistant and good for clay
> >soils in
> >SE Ohio (zone 6)
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >deb
> 
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