Fall field notes

Cold Hardy Apples and Crabapples: Fall Field Notes

Browse more notes

Field note · September 2026

Siberian crabapples used for hardy rootstock seed

Oak Summit Nursery · Southern Manitoba

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.