Crab apple help

[tuma]

hi all

Recently purchased a flowering grafted crabapple tree. Using air layer, will i get fruit in the air layered top?

David

[treeman]

hi all

Recently purchased a flowering grafted crabapple tree. Using air layer, will i get fruit in the air layered top?

David

Yes - if it lives.

[shibui]

There is no reason that your new layer will not flower (assuming it survives as Treeman points out) - but that bit you have layered is very young, vegetative wood and it does often take a few years for apple wood to get mature enough to flower.
In fact the whole plant looks pretty immature. Has the lower part flowered before? It often takes a few years for apple seedlings to get mature enough to produce flowers. This just means being a bit patient and pruning to promote flowering wood on the tree.

[tuma]

It has flowered before. Yes, the tree is pretty immature because the leafs are quite large. Thanks guys.


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[tuma]

Is this normal with my crab apple. There is no movement on the existing buds at all. I have cut off the new branches to force/promote the existing buds to bloom but no luck. Why?

David