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Jun 16, Extension Educator Marjorie Peronto demonstrates techniques that will keep your crabapple trees healthy and treeremove.bar our site for more information on. Jul 20, When pruning crabapple trees, start by removing suckers and water sprouts. The suckers grow from the rootstock of your tree and if you allow them to develop, they can grow into new trunks, possibly of a completely different tree type.

This is because your crabapple was grafted onto the rootstock of a different variety. Aug 25, CRABAPPLE PRUNING: ONE STEP AT A TIME.

When crabapples are neglected they tend to develop specific types of defects. These defects include: 1) suckers, 2) water sprouts, 3) branches growing in odd and incorrect directions, and. 4) overgrown terminal branches. Crabapple pruning requires fixing these defects. Cut any branches that are growing the wrong way or are unsightly to the shape of the tree back to the branch collar on the main trunk or to a connecting branch using loppers or a pruning saw.

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