You will have apples and pears for sure!
NOOOOOO!!! So sorry to hear you got hit. Lets just enjoy a no-spray year, shall we? ha
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@Olpea Mark,
Not April’s Fool but my potted Spring Snow peach is starting to bloom in the garage.
Not as abundant as last year but not scarce, either.
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@thecityman
Forgot that I have a couple of potted peach and nectarine trees in my garage. I may be able to get a dozen of fruit from these two small trees. 
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Tippy, lovely showy flowers. It makes nice spring blossoms display in a house
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Thanks, Annie, for an idea.
I took off twigs that were heading downward.
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Unfortunately, I have no skills for an artful Japanese flower arrangement.
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No need to rearrange it. The blossoms are beautiful enough already.
Tippy, how big the pot you are using for these peach/nectarine? I potted some peaches/nectarines last year. I am going to up pot the trees soon. I am thinking put them in 5 gallon pot but am also afraid that 5gl may be too small.
Annie,
I put them in 15 gallon pots. They are not big enough, though. They should be in a 20 or 25 gallon pots but we have difficulty lifting them and we have no room to store many pots bigger than 15 gallons.
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I am with you. Moving the pot is a real limit and I am not looking forward to it. But the potted trees bloom early and the blossoms are focal points, draw attention.
They stay in my garage all winter. Once in a while, it can get below 30F in the garage.
However, temp in a garage is still warmer than outdoors. They wake up earlier and bloom sooner. This year, they will probably be the only peaches I will get!!!
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Hi Tippy,
That’s of course an earlier bloom than outside Spring Snow here. We don’t have many Spring Snow flowers. The fruit buds of that variety got particularly iced hard during our -10F winter freeze.
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Today is a perfect day to spray in zone 6a Massachusetts. Temp 40+ and no wind. Some buds are green.
My question is, can I mix dormant spray with copper or another (Bonide) fruit spray ?
Thanks!
Colleen
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I have scales and other bug eggs that can be smothered by oil so I spray oil and copper annually. I sprayed two weeks ago.
If I were you, I would still spray oil and copper now.
Bonide has so many products so I don’t know what Bonide fruit spray is for.
@SMC_zone6 and @anon89542713
Look what I got!!! Yesterday evening, I drove by this tree cutting crew. I turned my car around and got out to ask them what they would do with the mulch in the truck. The lead guy said he would dump it. I ask if I could have it, he was happy to give it to me.
He drove his truck to my house and dump a full truckload on my driveway. It’s oak mulch. Had I had more space, he would drop the second truckload for me.
I am very happy for free mulch.
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You are lucky!The guy had a good grinder - the chips do not have much long sticks. My is much more “dirty”
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Yes, I was pleasantly surprised that the mulch is quite nice.
Not sure how long it will take us to move the pile it to where it should be.
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Tippy, take easy to spread the mulch. Ask your husband to help .don’t break your back
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That’s also a lot of open grass with no fruit trees yet!
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It helps them too,because sometimes they have to pay a disposal fee.
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