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| I have a one year old, prairefire crabapple about 6 ft tall, not real full and I noticed this year that only half of it bloomed/flowered. The other half is bear, no leaves at all. Upon inspecting, I see nothing wrong with the tree, no odd colors or anything eating it. What I would like to know is if half of this tree is dead and should I replace. It's not a pretty little tree, kind of scrawny.
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- Posted by toronado3800 Z6 St. Louis (My Page) on Tue, May 1, 12 at 23:21
| Lexern, what part of the country are you in? Any odd weather like my warm soring then cool spell? Where is it planted and how? Meaning funn sun, balled and burlaped? Sorry about the inquisition. |
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| Toronado...thank you for responding. I am in Kansas. The crabapple sits at the corner of my house in full sun all day. I had a landscape company re-do all of the front bed when I moved here and they planted it for me. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 12 at 8:38
| the bloom on mine is/was severely affected by hard forsts and freezes this spring ... also.. transplant causes severe stress.. and one result.. is reduced vigor.. aka flowering the next season ... [among other things] if its leafed out ... consider yourself in good shape... its alive and INSURE PROPER WATERING.. ALL this year.. ken |
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| Thank you Ken for responding.. Yes, here in Kansas, the weather has really been crazy.The tree is just really strange right now, half bloom, half bear. So you think I should just leave it alone for the season and see what happens next year? Is this something they do when stressed? |
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- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 12 at 18:20
| I'd guess-and this is only a guess-that the freakish warmup in March got things going in those flower buds, and that a later hard freeze killed the buds on that side of the tree for some reason. Maybe in the nursery, the other side with flowers was overshadowed just a bit by neighboring trees' foliage, hence not freezing as hard. Something like that. +oM |
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- Posted by strobiculate none (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 12 at 20:45
| Have you by chance taken a moment to examine the branches of the tree? healthy branches you can readily idwntify by the fact the have leaves. the bark is rounded and if you use a fingernail to peel it is bright green underneath the reddish outer bark. on the branches that are not showing growth...is the by any chance an area where the bark appears shrunken, depressed, and if you scrape is the wood either white or tannish/brown? |
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- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 12 at 22:10
| I didn't read carefully the first time. I thought it just wasn't flowering on one side. Now upon reading Strob's post and re-reading the OP, yes, examine that whole seemingly dead lead, back to where the tree is healthy. It sounds like a chunk of the tree has perhaps died. +oM |
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