Apple Crabs will go for sale in the summer of 2025. Trees will ship the following spring on a date you choose when you check out.
An Applecrab is a hybrid between an apple and a crab apple. This cross is typically well suited for colder climates and makes a much hardier fruit tree—the fruit averages about 2″ inches in diameter. As a result, when combining the two varieties, you get a larger fruit than a crabapple yet produces as heavily as crabapple. Most people would look at an apple crab and think it’s an apple, and there is truth in that thought. The difference is that apple crab can produce a much larger fruit crop than a regular apple tree.
Our trees are unique, specially selected for their particular characteristics. Our Applecrabs are very palatable and sweet-tasting, comparable to or better in taste than most modern apples today. Add in good disease resistance, and you will have trees that are beneficial for wildlife, especially Whitetail deer. Therefore, when the best of both worlds come together, you get a larger fruit than a crabapple yet produce as heavily as a crabapple. You get a tree that’s exceptional when planting trees for wildlife.
These trees come from scion wood taken from the original tree, essentially giving you a clone of the original tree. The end goal is to provide fruit trees that are dependable food sources and attract wildlife, especially the Whitetail deer.
We all want traits that meet our individual needs. The apple crab provides such needs as consistent and abundant fruit crops, sweet, palatable fruit, and various drop times and lengths. Add in enough built-in disease resistance, and you get a tree that requires less maintenance to be very productive.
Applecrab trees will add diversity to meet your hunting or management needs.
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This Grafted apple crab tree is a heavy spur-producing tree that is annually productive, producing a 2'' apple crab with excellent disease resistance. Big Dog Crab has resistance to immunity in many common apple tree diseases such as cedar apple rust, apple scab, powdery mildew, and fireblight in a no-spray situation. Big Dog will begin dropping in mid-October and continue into mid-January when planted in the northern part of the country. This tree pounds down the fruit in central Pennsylvania from mid-October into mid-November. The tree is partially self-fertile and produces an extensive array of blooms in the spring. It is not unusual to see Big Dog crab put off flowers the 1st year when planting them, as Big Dog crab is very precocious and begins producing at a young age on that one-year-old wood. This apple crab is late dropping and is an impressive tree, but you can easily see that from the pictures. The vigor in the tree is average, but everything else in this tree is exceptional. Big Dog will reach a mature height of 20'+. Plant Hardiness Zones 3-7. For a video of Big Dog Crab, click here.
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Big Lou™ Crab is easily one of the most unusual and unique trees I have ever encountered. This grafted tree is a heavy annual producer of a 2" apple crab that holds and drops a portion of its fruit during November, December, and January here in Pennsylvania. Big Lou™ Crab drops the most fruit during December and January but will retain enough fruit to continue to drop a few well into February if the wildlife doesn't have it cleaned off. For a video from January 17th, 2020, CLICK HERE.
Big Lou™ Crab has a very unusual taste. It takes on a nutty yet pear-like flavor in the middle of winter. The pictures and video of this tree make it easy to see that Big Lou is a Whitetail's favorite treat in late fall and winter. Unlike most other fruits, the fruit holds its integrity, even after being frozen and thawed many times. In the pictures of Big Lou's fruit, you can see that the flesh of this fruit is still firm and intact in the middle of January. Fruit integrity like this is necessary if you like to hunt in Pennsylvania's late hunting season in January or many other states throughout the Northeast or the Midwest. For a video of Big Lou™ on March 1st, 2021, CLICK HERE
The original tree resides in North Western Pennsylvania in plant hardiness zone 5a. Big Lou exhibits no sign of Apple Scab, Powdery Mildew, or Fireblight but only has moderate resistance to CAR in the north. The original tree has seen a sub-zero temperature of -24 that would place its resilience well into plant hardiness zone 4. Plant Hardiness zones 4b - 7. Mature height of 20'+
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This grafted crabapple is very cold hardy and productive. It produces a very large 2” AppleCrab that tastes very close to a Dolgo crabapple. This crabapple will be dropping free from the tree from October through winter, and will even keep a few apples on into March. The Buckman Crab produced heavily following a winter that had a low of - 41 degrees. This late dropping crabapple as shown good resistance to apple scab, powdery mildew, fireblight and especially cedar apple rust in a no spray situation. Mature height will be 20'+. Plant Hardiness Zones 3-6. For a video of the Buckman Crabapple click here.
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Candy Crab™ is a 2" apple crab or an apple with a complex flavor and finishes with a delightful sweetness. Once you eat one, you will want more of these delicious fruits because of their crisp and exciting flavor. I would describe it as a celebration inside your mouth. I have tasted loads of wild apples and domesticated apples in my travels but never one such as this. The fruit belongs in a grocery store not being planted for deer. It is the best apple I have ever had the pleasure to eat. In my pictures, this crab is heavily loaded every year, yet it still has a nice size to it.
This apple crab is also a product of natural selection by nature that has never been sprayed and is growing wild in North Western Pennsylvania in plant hardiness zone 5a. This tree fully ripens and is a heavy producer. It begins to drop about October 1st and continues to do so well into late November with a constant steady pace here in Pennsylvania.
Candy Crab™ is among a few 1,000 wild crabs growing within the same vicinity, yet is exhibiting no signs of C.A.R, Scab, or Fireblight here in the Northeast, present in this area. During the polar vortex of 1994, Candy Crab would have experienced temperatures typically seen in plant hardiness zone 4a. Yet, it is still standing here today, making this crab very suitable for zone 4b and maybe even below.
The name Candy Crab™ fits this new cultivar perfectly, and I see it being sold well beyond the use for wildlife. If you like to eat apples, you would be crazy not to have a Candy Crab™ planted behind the house or on the way to your stand. Mature height will be 20+. Plant Hardiness zones 4b -7.
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CenterField is a 2'' apple crab with a great taste originating out of one of the coldest places east of the Mississippi in the Tug Hill area of NewYork. The vigor of this tree is exceptional, and its annual fruit production makes it an ideal choice for colder climates. The apples are dropping freely from this tree in late October and through November in this climate, whereas it is a typical October-early November tree in my location in central Pennsylvania. They say timing is everything, and that's what this tree does; it hits me at the perfect time when I'm spending most of my time in a tree. The Centerfield apple crab is free of all debilitating diseases in both areas, here in the Northeast. Plenty of apple cedar rust and Frieblight surround the original tree, and it remains clean. The taste is good, which is probably why most deer hit this tree first. CenterField apple crab has experienced ambient temperatures as low as -40 degrees many times, making it suitable for plant hardiness zones 3a-7. This crab will reach a mature height of 25+.
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This grafted Chestnut crabapple tree produces a 2’’ apple that is very good for fresh eating, ripens in early September, with a few apples persisting on the tree into October. This tree is a favorite for eating out of hand to many that have planted it. Chestnut crabapple trees have excellent disease resistance to common apple tree diseases. In a no spray situation I have seen great resistance to apple scab, cedar apple rust, powdery mildew and fireblight. This tree is annually productive with heavy crops and is very cold hardy down to Zone 3. Chestnut Crab will reach a mature height of 20'+. Plant Hardiness zones 3 - 8.
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Cobbler Crab™ is a new cultivar. This grafted tree produces an applecrab over 2'' in diameter, annually and heavily. The fruit is crisp, sweet with a touch of tartness which will mellow after time in storage or on the ground. Cobbler Crab™ keeps very well and may belong in your personal orchard as much as it does in your wildlife orchard. The vigor of Cobbler Crab™ is exceptional! The tree grows very fast when grafted onto Dolgo roots.
The fruit begins dropping in early October continuing into December and in some years has been found to still be holding and dropping 20% into January. While being surrounded by 1,000's of other wild apple trees, Cobbler Crab™ has shown resistance to Apple Scab, C.A.R, Fireblight and Powdery Mildew while other apple trees in the area are showing or have shown signs of these diseases here in the northeast. The tree originates from North Western Pennsylvania in hardiness zone 5a but has experienced winter lows of -24 in its life equivalent to those experienced in plant hardiness zone 4. Making this tree suitable for plant hardiness zones 4b - 7. Maturity height 20'+.
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Ed's Crazy Crab™ is a grafted apple crab that earns its name because, as shown in this picture, it pounds out the fruit. Ed's Crazy Crab is prolific and sets fruit annually, which falls throughout the fall. The tree is red-leaved, with pink blossoms and red flesh, producing a golf ball-sized fruit that drops from October into the new year. The fruit is complex and one for you cider guys, and also one my deer gobble down. Ed's Crazy Crab has demonstrated disease resistance against all major apple tree diseases from north to south in a no-spray situation.
The original tree stands approximately 35 feet tall and resides in Plant Hardiness Zone 4b and the border of 4a. This tree begins dropping its fruits in late October, peaks during my favorite time in November, and retains some fruits that drop throughout December here in central Pa in zones 5b/6a. The vigor is almost too extreme in this tree, as it invests a lot of energy in growth and begins to fruit heavily around age 4. The original tree resides in plant hardiness zone 4b, making it very hardy from zones 4-7. You will have a mature height of 20'+
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Grafted apple, apple crab, and crabapple trees at a discounted price. Sometimes we may lose tags or have a mix-up, and this is your opportunity to plant something grafted at a better price. They are from here and grafted so that they will be solid trees, just a mix of them. I can tell you they will be productive, vigorous, hardy, and suitable for plant hardiness zones 4b- 8 with a mature height of 25'
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Kerr is a grafted crab introduced in 1952, a cross between the Dolgo and Harlson crab apples. This tree produces heavy crops of apples annually, making it one of the best crabapple trees for deer. Kerr crabapple is around 2" in size with a slightly tart but sweet taste that's good for fresh eating or cider and, more importantly, for me feeding deer—Hardy down to Zone 3, with excellent disease resistance to common apple tree diseases. In a no-spray situation, I see excellent resistance to cedar apple rust, good resistance to apple scab, powdery mildew, and fireblight. This tree will begin dropping in October and continue to drop all fall, with a few persisting on the tree into winter. Kerr is one of the best crabapple tree options for deer sold commercially today. It starts dropping for me in central Pennsylvania in late October and continues well into December. The fruit keeps its integrity very good for me here; I wouldn't be without this tree. It is clean, hugely productive, and falling at the perfect time, as seen in the pictures. This tree will reach a mature height of 20'+. Plant Hardiness Zones 3-8.
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Lockdown Crab™ is an apple crab and is a new cultivar to the Wildlife Management World. Actually, a new apple to the World and is a product of natural selection. This grafted apple produces heavy crops of 2”+ fruit and drops most of its fruit during November and a few continuing into December. When planted in an area where it blooms from early to mid-May in the north, Lockdown Crab™ will ripen and begin to drop in late October, with the main drop during that important mid-November period. If you are planting below the 40th parallel north, I'm sure you will see this drop time shift and become a few weeks earlier as you go south of this location.
Lockdown produces fruit annually and does its job well. I've known this tree for three fruiting seasons, and it has not failed to fruit in those three years. This sweet apple is heavy bearing and an annual producer. It also shows resistance to C.A.R., Apple Scab, Powdery Mildew, and Fireblight in the Northeast. Lockdown Crab™ has readily tolerated temperatures of -35 degrees, making it well suited for Northern Climates. With all of its great qualities, Lockdown Crab ™ would be a beneficial component when looking for an enticing food source for wildlife north of the 40th latitude at a time during that critical lockdown period. Lockdown Crab ™ will have a mature height of 20’+. Plant Hardiness Zone 4-7.
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Peak Attraction™ is a grafted apple crab with many exceptional characteristics that make this tree an exception cultivar for wildlife. These characteristics include a high resistance or immunity to apple scab, cedar apple rust, powdery mildew, and fireblight in a no-spray situation. Peak attraction™ is an annually productive tree, producing 2'' apple crabs that I would describe as a sweet nutty-flavored apple.
This tree begins dropping in mid-October, continuing through November. It retains a few 100 fruits into December and January. Still, during November, the main drop occurs for a large portion of the U.S. When the peak of deer movement during the rut matches fruit falling, it creates something extraordinary. The apple crabs falling during this time is why this tree has earned the name peak attraction™. This tree exhibits a high level of vigor when grafted onto Dolgo roots, and productivity almost to be unmatched. As we look at these pictures of Peak Attraction™, the original tree is a giant and well over 50' tall from the excessive vigor that this tree has. The original tree resides in plant hardiness zone 4b, making it very hardy from zones 4b-8. You will have a mature height of 20'+
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