Transcendent Crabapple Tree

Transcendent Crabapple Tree

Transcend your preconceived notions of crabapples and try Transcendent Crabapple Tree, a gorgeous, compact tree with white and pink blossoms that give way to tasty, yellowish-red fruit that look like small distant planets hanging on your very own backyard crabapple tree. Unlike other crabapples, Transcendent is a triploid and will not serve as a pollinator for your other apple trees. It’s fruit can be eaten fresh, used for cider, or made into jam.

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Latin Name: Malus domestica
Site and Soil: All apples like 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Considered a semi dwarf rootstock, trees on M-7 typically grow 12-16 ft. in height and are spaced 12-16 ft. apart. Crabapples, Columnars, Espaliers, and Combination Apples will be smaller. A particularly good apple rootstock for heavy soils, M-7 is hardy to minus 35° F. Vigorous and well anchored, trees on M-7 should not require staking.
Pollination Requirements: Triploid – this tree will not reciprocate pollination to other nearby apples.
Hardiness: Transcendent Crabapple Tree should be hardy to minus 30° F.
Bearing Age: 2-3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 10-12 ft. in height
Bloom Time: April
Ripening Time: September
Yield: 30+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Transcendent Crabapple Tree is moderately resistant to Apple Scab. Codling Moth can create wormy apples and aphids can damage the foliage of apple trees.
USDA Zone: 2
Sunset Western Zone: 1-9, 14-16
Sunset Northeast Zone: All zones