Interestingly one of my peach sapling in a nursery pot is leafing out without blooming.
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My first mason bees emerged today, looking for their mates, so far only honey berries and cherry plums are blossoming
Dennis
Kent, Wa
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Is your Cuban Comet blooming? mine still looks like swelling buds.
I just went for a late afternoon walk around the neighborhood here and smelled lots of things blooming that weren’t open before today’s nice warm, sunny weather. Peaches aren’t yet, but Oregon grapes are flowering, and a number of other things I didn’t recognize. Was a good day to wake up for the bees around these parts.
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Not yet
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I wonder how much fruit is stolen since the trees are right next to the street
For me the leaves always come out first
Beautiful!
flowers bloom after that?
Some peaches and apricots started to bloom in the Sacramento valley https://youtube.com/shorts/9GJaz5oCSmQ?si=Hp8zU6pnEuQmZJjv
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Yep
Here 10 days ago also some peaches, nectarines, plums …. were with blooms, in some cases not only started, in some cases they had 100% blooms open already, bees woke up too.
Early peaches( the ones crop is expected in May/June) were in full bloom, however the rest peaches are still sleeping.
Have a nice day
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Here in South Atlanta, Georgia Belle just starting to show pink tips…
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Mine are still buttoned up…I do expect them to be a week or so early (mid April as opposed to late April)
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What did you spray with? I just read that spraying with seaweed extract can prevent peach leaf curl. Do you know what the product is called and if there’s an organic version?
My grafts are alive and there are flowers bud. I will let it fruit. This was taken 2 weeks ago. It’s now flowering. Root stock from seed.
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I’m surprised by the number of blooms on trees that we planted last fall. Looks like 20+ blooms on all that have broken dormancy.
And yet after warm Novs and Decs I’ve seen peach trees with swollen buds in January that ended up barren from a deep dive in Feb that normally wouldn’t be cold enough to hurt flower buds at that time.
Chilling temps may not be an absolute controller of the hardening off process. These things are so damned complicated.
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Warm Nov and Dec probably increase your chilling totals. And if buds swell in Jan then your chilling req was met by Jan 1. It’s actually a tough place to be in. North Carolina has bad spring freeze issues on peaches. Southern NY may end up like NC has been in the past.
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