Middle of January and my trees are waking up already! 
We are supposedly having a normal winter although not a lot of chill hours off late. Total so far is between 500 to 600. But last year, we had even more warmth, fewer chill hours (<400) and my trees broke dormancy in early Feb!
Arctic Star Nectarine
Flavor Supreme Pluot
Flavor King Pluot
Won’t be long now, here as well.
You are in SoCal. It’s so wrong for us to break dormancy before you guys! 
Here are my pluots two years ago waking up in March!
Wow! I can’t even imagine breaking bud at this point. We just had our coldest night of the winter thus far at -7.8 degrees…going to come close again tonight at -6 before it warms back up. IA Z5B
@bleedingdirt, you must be a backyard orchard culture enthusiast too. Looking good!
San Jose isn’t too different from my locale. Amazing how many different micro-climates there are in my own lot.
it’s close to zero here so yes, I’m jealous. I would love to be able to grow citrus and other semi tropical fruit. I don’t know if I would like being extremely limited in the pome fruit I could grow.
Thanks @MrClint! I’m following the same footsteps as you are with BYOC.
San Jose is a big metro. My local climate is on the colder side. We get freezes every winter and we go down to the mid 20’s every few years. Heck it went into the teens a few years back. I’m sure Lake Balboa is warmer than that.
The other thing is, my orchard is shaded by my uphill neighbor’s house all winter long. It doesn’t get direct sunlight till March.
Down here in Santa Cruz my trees aren’t as far along as yours, bleeding dirt. It’s especially odd if yours are in the shade! Mine are in the sun.
My fruit trees have at least lost all their leaves, which didn’t even happen with last winter’s warm weather. Oddly, though, a few grafts have kept their leaves on both my multi-million-grafted peach (UFO just won’t drop those leaves) and my apple. I guess those particular cultivars need more chill to believe it’s actually winter! But while we’re having all this rainy weather (for which I’m very thankful) I wish we could get a few more chill hours. It’s staying in the 50s at night here.
Mine are still dead asleep up here in Berkeley. Blenheim and Spice Zee didn’t even go fully dormant until about 3 weeks ago.
Last winter I started seeing some activity around this time.
Chris,
My Blenheim and SpiceZee are asleep as well. So are my other varieties. Just the pluots and early nectarine are being impatient.
Fantastic! I can taste the apricots now. Good luck!
That’s wild! It still feels so early.
Be sure to post again when they’re in full bloom. I’ve been recording various data points from the crowd here on my website.
DesertGold is starting to open here in Phoenix area. The buds are swelling on the other 10 or so varieties. Even the bare root that I planted 2 weeks ago are showing signs of life. 
Funny how we have the two threads going right now: the one about the gigantic snow storm and this one about fruit trees in bloom.
I went out last night with a flashlight and noticed the first signs of color on my Spice Zee. Still seems early, even for coastal California, but here we go!
