Kendra: Brown beetles that feed at night are most likely the Rose Chafer or Masked Chafer beetle. Japanese beetles normally feed in the daytime. The recipe for all these beetle types is the same: Sevin liquid mixed with the appropriate amount of water. Since your trees are small, application could be made with a 1 quart hand trigger sprayer. Sevin liquid is sold at your local Lowes and Home Depot, as well as any nursery. You can also find trigger sprayers there, as well as at Wal-Mart. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA

Well, very unfortunate, Suzi, sorry to hear that. Be sure to treat your Anna as well. Both tree make some decent apples, and they are our "early" low chill apples. But, I would consider putting in a couple of later apples. I would recommend Fuji and PInk Lady (Cripps). If you think Anna tastes good, you'll flip over Fuji. Fuji is an A++ in flavor, compared to Anna, which would be a B. No comparison. Same for Pink Lady, just a really nice apple. Plus ,you'd then have early and late apples, sort of nice to have. Patty S.

heavy spring flowering.. leads to heavy fall fruiting ... the shear weight pulling them down ... other years.. you will get a late frost freeze.. and might have neither ... its probably also a function of it finally getting fully 'established' .... now that its roots are fully established.. it can get on with sexual reproduction ... aka flowering/seeding ... i have 8 or so crabs .... including profussion ... and as far as i am concerned.. none of them are the vase shape you crave .... you better get used to it doing ITS own thing.. rather than your hoped for form ... unless you decide to topiary it into something else ... see link for representative shape ... ken https://www.google.com/search?q=Profusion+Crabapple&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMIlqWru9zUyAIVRI-ACh3rewOw&biw=889&bih=745&dpr=0.9

I'm also in SoCal (Corona) and had some blackening/browning issues with our pear tree. Wonder if your apple was also scorched by that heat? We are going to have another few days of possible triple-digit temperatures Sunday-Tuesday...