I had 29 this morning, and yet an hour ago when we were inching up to 40 I saw something fluttering to the ground onto the mulch under my Redhaven - it was a small grasshopper! If we get the heat those maps Rob posts are predicting, we ought to have a ball this summer…
Showing 25F here tonite…ugh… this should be it though. Pattern change coming and a nice stretch of spring on tap.
I covered and tried to protect peaches Friday night when it got to 22.6 here, but right now I’m at the corner of Care Less & Give a Hoot (I dressed that up…) I’m resigning myself to the ol’ “Maybe Next Year” mantra.
Same here…i look at some cots yesterday…they looked fine…i cut them open. They are showing white now up here. I would say they’ll bloom very quickly now. I think the bloom this year will be fast for everything. Even the apples/pears look pretty far along now.
I went and inspected my trees. The pluots are hit the worst, but I will get some. The peaches look great. A few more nights but not as cold as you guys are reporting. I think I should be fine and get a good crop of peaches, a poor crop of pluots. Nadia has nice fruit buds, I got lucky, the protection was worth doing.
I just have one pluot outside…flowers are still tight…have to see…the thing needed thinning anyways.
We can probably kill this thread soon…all the models are hinting at warmth for all
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How about fruitnut? Brady
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Cub’s fan?
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In looking at my damage I don’t think the charts are at all accurate for apricots (at least not in my climate). It looks like I had about 95% damage with the estimates of 27F for 10% damage and 24F for 90% damage (this is in the shuck which is where the cots are now), but the peaches in the same location appear 90+% fine but their temps in the chart at full bloom where they are now is 10% 27F and 90% 24F. In other words, I should have gotten the same damage on both according to the charts but I got radically different damage. I am pretty sure most cots were adequately pollinated as they are dying attached to the tree as opposed to dropping.
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Scott, as Roseanne Rosannadanna used to say, “Scott, there’s always
something.” In your case, Mother Nature could care less about charts.
The GFS 12z run had cold in it at 288 hr and 384 hr. Haha… now how is that for some long term worrying? Though that would be consistent with my birthday present from ma Nature last year: 23 deg in the backyard orchard on 4/23/2015.
Chikn: I can’t afford to be optimistic for that long though - (Like the gal who threw out the first “peach” the other day, was like 100 years old and she’s never seen 'em win the series…)
If I keep tending trees that don’t get er done, my wife will shoot me with my own gun!!!
I really needed that 100 yr. old blast. I’ve been a fan since 1973 and I’m sure I’ll die before I hear Cub’s win! at the world serious!
Just got back from western Ia., big grass fire to the east of Avoca.
…probably somebody try’n to keep their peaches warm
True, so true.
Probably very cold at the farm this morning. The PWS 4 miles south is not reporting. The one 10 miles south says it got to 26, but sometimes it can run a few degrees colder than the farm. We are at shuck split, so not good.
@rayrose ,
I did spray the KDL this time on selective varieties. I didn’t spray all the trees of those varieties, just some of them.
Edit: PWS 4 miles south of farm just reported. They show a low of 30F, so maybe not quite so bad.
Somehow I think I came through largely unscathed from all the cold.
-Peach tree looks good.
-Pears seem ok, but we’ll see how fruit set is since some blossoms looks a little rough.
-Apples blossoms were still small enough they were unscathed. Same with blueberries.
-Even my one green fig tree bud is still green!
But there is a freeze watch tonight…boo.
Bounced around at the airport …low so far of 25F… Hopefully this is it (famous last words) for freezes…
All my potted trees are going out today…time to get my bloom on.
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Averages are climbing rapidly. Increasing sun angles, snow cover across Canada should decrease… 6z GFS is spring right through 384…and looking at a model past day 7 or at most day 10 is very iffy… so we should be safe through late April…
Plus…i don’t want anymore freezes…so there. 
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