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  • From: sherwin <sherwindu@att.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Crab apple disease resistance
  • Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 20:37:34 -0500

In my limited experience, I have never tasted a sweet crab apple, but evidently they do
exist. The people I know who grow them, use them for canning or cider, not for eating
off the tree. The crab apples I have seen have thick tough skins, but again I have not
seen all cultivars of this fruit.

Among the dozen or so apple varieties I grow, it seems like the bugs prefer the sweeter
apples. They also avoid some of the tougher skinned varieties like Spigold. These are
just some of my limited observations, and I realize there could be exceptions to what
I have experienced. I don't grow them, but several members of my club Midfex do. and
I have tasted many of them.

Sherwin Dubren

On 4/8/2014 11:41 AM, Lee Reich wrote:
By definition, a "crab apple" is any variety bearing small fruit, less than 2-1/4"
diameter. "Crab" says nothing of the species or flavor.

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On Apr 8, 2014, at 10:50 AM, Dr. Lucky Pittman wrote:

I'm not so sure the sugar content idea is salient, Sherwin.
I don't have a brix-ometer, but Centennial and Jim Bastian's Orange Crab are
two of the sweetest apples I grow. Both crabs, and minimal insect damage,
compared to most larger apples.

Lucky

-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [nafex] Crab apple disease resistance

Why so few crab apples have curculio, apple maggot or coddling moth? I don't
know. But we do observe it.

Richard,

I would think that the usually tougher skin of the crab apples and their
lower sugar content would play a big role in their not attracting these
pests.

Sherwin Dubren
Morton Grove, IL
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