The Crafty Cultivator

In the fall of 2019, I did a series of 3 posts about my Chance Crabapple Seedlings. They were all pulled from my flower beds under the (probably) ‘Radiant’ Crabapple that hangs over our fence.

So in my posts in the Fall, I did two photos of each of the 18 crabapples. One showing their heights. This post is just going to be a quick check-in, and I’m going to outline the ones that either didn’t survive the winter, or were just slow to come out of dormancy comparative to the others. I have photos of the ones I kept, but they are just quick shots and not the greatest… I just didn’t want another photo-less post.  Also, for my own notes, this is current as of today (May 19, 2020).

Lets get the culled ones out of the way before I add some photos of the keepers.

Culled: 2, 5, 6 (All from Post 1), 7, 9, 10, 11 (All in Post 2), 15, 16 & 17 (All in Post 3).  (I was hoping that 5 and 6 would’ve done better, but it is what it is)

Still going:

Well, that is is for the survivors of the 2019 Chance Crabapple Seedlings. I’m thinking I will do another post in the Fall to document their growth this summer. It might be a few years before they get to the flower stage, but I hope they all make it. I was pretty rough in my cull, but I don’t want to waste my time on tiny little trees that just wont make it here. Plus I need as many pots as I can get for all the new seedlings I have been growing in my kitchen window.

I’ll be keeping these in the 1-gallon pots as long as they are still growing well. They’ll get bumped up to a bigger pot of they need the space, but If I can keep them in these more manageable pots, then that is ideal… Depending on how this year goes, I may end up planting them out at my parent’s place to see how they manage life, but we’ll cross that bridge if we get to it.