{"id":544,"date":"2021-07-21T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2021-07-21T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:08:08","slug":"my-arborist-told-me-this-was-a-crabapple-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"My arborist told me this was a crabapple tree."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m unconvinced.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Those are the biggest crabapples I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever seen, if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re bigger than a golf ball, though still smaller than a baseball. I sampled a windfall this morning, and while it clearly wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ripe, it was starting to develop an apple sweetness, certainly moreso than the windfall I tasted a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we moved in, this tree was a mess. We had it pruned last year, and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect to get anything. Wrong! We had tons of flowers, both pink and white, and then a spectacular fruit set from the white ones. There are still some fruit on the back of the tree, where the pink flowers were, but those are much tinier and do look like crabapples. My best guess is that most of the tree is apple, but that there was some growth from below the graft early in the tree\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history. The leaves on that part of the tree are different too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tree shed about half the fruit in mid-June. What I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tidied up, the local wildlife has been feasting on, mostly in the form of roly-polys. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s okay, it keeps them out of my veggie garden. (Who knew roly-polys liked bean sprouts so much? Jeez!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple season around here is September, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got about five to six weeks before we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll really have a good grasp on what we have. Maybe a touch longer. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m excited to find out, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Those are the biggest crabapples I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever seen, if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re bigger than a golf ball, though still smaller than a baseball. I sampled a windfall this morning, and while it clearly wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ripe, it was starting to develop an apple sweetness, certainly moreso than the windfall I tasted a few weeks ago. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[253,142,228],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","tag-apple-tree","tag-apples","tag-garden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6CUdQ-8M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}