Juniperus Virginiana and crabapple getting rust

[DhD47]

I've been reading about this rust problem with crabapples and eastern reds. I wanted to know if I should not introduce any Juniperus Virginiana to my yard since I have a crabapple tree.
I was planning on getting some cuttings of an eastern red cedar from my current vacation home. I wanted grow these cuttings into bonsais more as a way to remember the trip. After reading about this rust problem with red cedars and crabapples I'm thinking I shouldn't collect the cuttings at all. I have a large crabapple tree in the yard I would hate to distroy over a cutting of something that's not so special to start with. The crabapple looks so sweet in the spring with all the white flowers I don't want to loose that.
Should I skip the cuttings or is there a chance I'll be ok with the Juniperus Virginiana bonsai and the crabapple in the yard?

Thanks
Dave

 

[Paradox]

Pretty much everything I have read says you shouldnt have both because they are intermediate hosts for the rust. If you have them both, it will most likely be an issue.
I was also looking at eastern red cedar as potential bonsai material. The consensus is that they are pretty much hit or miss trying to bonsai and can be very frustrating to work with.

 

[edprocoat]

Of course you could keep them treated ...

ed

 

[jk_lewis]

I've been reading about this rust problem with crabapples and eastern reds. I wanted to know if I should not introduce any Juniperus Virginiana to my yard since I have a crabapple tree.
I was planning on getting some cuttings of an eastern red cedar from my current vacation home. I wanted grow these cuttings into bonsais more as a way to remember the trip. After reading about this rust problem with red cedars and crabapples I'm thinking I shouldn't collect the cuttings at all. I have a large crabapple tree in the yard I would hate to distroy over a cutting of something that's not so special to start with. The crabapple looks so sweet in the spring with all the white flowers I don't want to loose that.
Should I skip the cuttings or is there a chance I'll be ok with the Juniperus Virginiana bonsai and the crabapple in the yard?

Thanks
Dave

Of course we have NO idea where you are from, but unless you:

1. Live in midtown Manhattan or in the center of any other metro area, and

2. Have no other Juniper bonsai,

It won't matter. All juniper are host to cedar apple rust to one degree or another.

If you live almost anywhere else east of the Mississippi, there is a J. virginiana growing somewhere close enough to you that bringing some more in also won't matter.

Alternate hosts aren't just crabapples. Hawthorns are susceptible, too.

And, as Ed says a spraying of a juniper in early spring will take care of the worst of it.