Actually, I have never seen the leaves reduce in size.
Enjoy for the flowers and the fruit. Remove all
leaves and all fruit except one for the look called
full moon between the branches in fall.

Kitsue Miko
--- wrote:
In a message dated 4/26/04 11:03:49 AM, STEVEW70146
writes:
One of my Crab Apples flowered last month, and has
developed fruit.

How do you get them to fruit? Mine didn't.

If I am not mistaken Blossom buds form on tips of
older branches

Somebody reminded me they set buds early, so I
pruned it already. Looks a lot
neater. I heard or read somewhere that crabapples
respond poorly to
defoliation: the leaves come back just as big.
Hopefully they will reduce as the tree
becomes twiggier.
Iris



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