Care to share which trees are held in such high regards? 
Indian Free peach, Arctic Glo Nectarine, Flavor Supreme, and Flavor King (both on same tree) And Nadia, haven’t tasted yet, but want to! I’ll cover and use a light source for heat.
Great. I have all those except artic glo. Unfortunately I have tasted a single one yet. Lol
Well then you have some excellent fruit to look forward to! I just ran the extension cords out to the trees to get ready. I need to do this for 4 or 5 nights. Argh!
For those of you that are worried about grafts you’ve recently done, I would
try to cover them with something. I lost over 100 grafts last year to a late
freeze, and they were uncovered.
Rayrose, how will covering the grafts help, unless you cover the whole tree and get warmth from the ground?
What were the graft species and were they growing at the time? I’m thinking the freeze will hopefully not hurt the still dormant scion wood.
Have they pushed leaves yet (any)?
Next Saturday is looking ugly…going to hope the trees hold for another week.
I would happily sacrifice my peach flower buds to a 2013-2014 winter than have to deal with this warm February and early March stuff. If it keeps up it is going to get my apples’ blooms.
The cold shot a week from now actually (at least on the models) looks colder then the current one… There is also another shot of cold coming into the midwest on day 10… of course models can flip/change …lets hope they do or at least moderate. What worries me is the amt of cold air in Canada…close by ready to invade.
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I give up。while trying put a tarp up，I have already rubbered off half of the buds. Small tree, not many buds total.
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Yes I am at the extreme northern tip of the lower peninsula. The problem with the forecast and why it is all over the place as far as snow accumulation is many don’t include lake effect snow, just system snow . Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day as there could be several inches of system snow but the wind profile is one where any thing could happen for us here with lake effect. Here is an excerpt from the recent NWS forecast discussion for us.
_ " WON`T BE SURPRISED IF PORTIONS OF THIS, DEPENDING ON THE LAKE INFLUENCES AND SIGNALS FOR F-GEN BANDING THAT SOMEONE ENDS UP WITH WARNING CRITERIA SNOW."_
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All of mine were dormant and the variety didn’t matter. Covering them
is better than doing nothing at all.
We just started getting hit with some pretty intense rain. This could end up helping out.
Clear blue skies as the sun sets and 35F…the dew point is 9F…so the potential to plummet is there, but the winds are still blowing near 20mph…so that should help.
The trough is on the way!
NO snow…had some late clouds come through and winds turn south overnight and blew at a decent clip allowed the temp to only drop to 31F>… Today is suppose to rocket back into the 60Fs… Even near 80F across areas of Iowa. Huge turn around.
This pattern is one of extremes. Look at this for later next week… 90F in Montana? Super ridging over the west while the east coast plummets into the depths of the polar vortex…
It got down to 23F here, man way too cold, like winter again, my plants are hit pretty hard. Glad I protected some, and it’s far from over.
27F here this morning after late rain changed to snow. Took the dog out and it reminded me of how much I hate winter.
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Nice!
My house is full of plants too… They go out shortly for a day in the sunshine…
Drew-
Cold shot Fri/Sat…then maybe another shot at 240hrs (10 days from now)…then maybe, just maybe the pattern will relax. maybe.
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That map is so ugly. Luckily, here in Maine things aren’t as advanced as elswhere. But we expect to get down into single digits for multiple nights and might not get above freezing during the day so there’s no doubt that there will be at least some damage.
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