Shogun’s Crab Apple Bonanza

[Shogun610]

Your trees are making great progress! Also looks like you are learning an awful lot about these persnickety plants.

And persnickety they are, often tossing foot long soft branches, creating taperless sections of trunk without intervention and curling their leaves while one is getting a coffee refill!

In our neck of the woods an aphid attack on crabapples, cherries and the like is fairly rare, maybe roses on occasion. The thing crabs get the most (in spring) if one doesn’t stay on top of is rust.

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Yeah that’s one lost last of its branches

 

[Shogun610]

Yeah that’s one lost last of its branches

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RIP .. this suffered back aphid attack so just down to one crab I’m developing the profusion

 

[Shogun610]

Your trees are making great progress! Also looks like you are learning an awful lot about these persnickety plants.

And persnickety they are, often tossing foot long soft branches, creating taperless sections of trunk without intervention and curling their leaves while one is getting a coffee refill!

In our neck of the woods an aphid attack on crabapples, cherries and the like is fairly rare, maybe roses on occasion. The thing crabs get the most (in spring) if one doesn’t stay on top of is rust.

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DSD sends

But the aphids won this season .. atleast im down to the bitter of the bunch so there is that.

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Hope this flourishes. We have to get on rust early on with o all our crabs. Perhaps all the copper causes the bugs to go to someone else’s garden!

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