Fall field notes
Cold Hardy Apples and Crabapples: Fall Field Notes
Field note · September 2026
Siberian crabapples used for hardy rootstock seed
siberian crabapple, usually a small late hanging apple. I have a few trees planted twenty years ago that all have slightly different fruit sizes and colors, apple is a mixed bag of genetics but these ones are mostly Malus bacatta the siberian crabapple, and they've survived plenty of -40C winters so I like to use this seed source for our apple rootstocks.
From the nursery shop