First signs of budbreak in our vineyards:
would it be better for a home grower to have staggered fruit, more like lemon and limes?
Yeah but they are more set up for an everbearing style than a mandarin. I think a potted mandarin would exhaust itself everbearing but maybe not. One way or another we will see I guess haha
Several of my apples have swelling buds, seems earlier than usual. Guess after such a long cold winter, they’re looking for any hint of warmth to pop open. Three of my “new” trees have several buds on them.
My pluots are starting to bloom, they’re always the first to do so, and I’ve never got any fruit off them because they bloom way too early.
Haven’t seen many peach fruit buds, maybe the extreme cold zapped them. Haven’t seen any pear buds pop up yet either.
Wild plum is about to bloom, but bush cherries are showing some buds
BITE ME apple, interstem, 3rd season in ground.
Wickson on M111, third year in ground
How are your peaches doing? You’re actually not that far from us, just a few counties to the west.
Am I the first one with freeze damage on blooms? About 25 last night nailed the apricots which are past full bloom.
They’re leafing out, I don’t see any blooms yet and not any real good pictures of them. I’m not sure what will happen this year. They are looking good framework wise think, although for some reason I’ve trained them to a central leader, they really want to be open center so I may cut the tops back this summer. Last year we had a couple blossoms, no sign of any this year.
Mine really aren’t showing any kind of leaves yet, strange.
Why do you have the trunk wrapped up? Did it have some kind of damage and you did some repairs on it?
I can’t tell for sure what shape your tree is, it looks like it has a central leader, but it looks mostly okay to me.
It was warmer this morning than it is now, we’re also supposed to get below freezing tonight but I don’t have anything blooming right now, but the pluots are close.
Trunk is wrapped through last winter to deter rabbits and voles/mice. Seems to have worked on all but one tree that something simply chewed through the canvas. The first winter we were here we had rabbits chew nearly all our seedling apple trees in half, they never recovered. Lesson learned. The lowest branches on that peach are much bigger than the highest one.whatever the shape, it’s better than no peach tree at all, I’m going to be planting and grafting many more this summer anyway. This peach is a seedling from a white peach tree that was brought from serbia many decades ago. I have no idea what variety it is. I’ll try to get better pictures tomorrow morning.
A couple years ago I got scion of Orient pear in a trade but I had aleady grafted kiefer and improved kiefer to the two callery rootstocks out in my orchard.
I found this callery roadside near our mailbox and grafted Oeient scion to it.
It has developed into a nice sprawling little tree and has a couple of blossom clusters out already.
My forecast for tonight is 28F… but it is normally 4-6 degrees warmer here than they forecast.
If it does not get toasted tonight my brother in-law has a pear tree blooming… i will get some blossoms from him and pollinate it.
TNHunter
Seems very green for this time of year, especially in Switzerland? What do your fruit trees look like?
Our lawn is really greener than just a couple weeks ago, I might have to get my mower out to get ahead of it.
Many pear trees in the area are blooming here, I’m guessing Bradford pears, plus some cherries looks like. My pears aren’t nearly that far along.
My Suncrisp and Goldrush trees I planted out 3 years ago in my front yard are loaded with fruit buds this year.
It was about 27 this morning when I left for work.
My fruit trees are quite far along, especially the pears, but they are certainly not blooming yet and I hope they wait until the middle of April to really bloom.
Here it is normal that the grass is quite far ahead of the trees. For example our sweet cherries bloom between mid April and Mid May and we often cut the first hay as the last bloom of the cherries tapers off…We have a dry, hot wind (called Föhn) from the south at the moment. This really pushes the grass…The Föhn is great because it really dries the soil so you can work outside but on the other hand it one of the most destructive winds here in Switzerland and feared. The following Article (not available in English) shows some pictures of historical destruction https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/ueber-uns/meteoschweiz-blog/de/2024/12/der-foehn-als-holzfaeller-und-brandbeschleuniger.html
The grass is still just greening, no growth in length just yet…The flowers I posted are some of the earliest, small wildflowers that bloom before the grass really grows…We all expect that the winter will come back at least once. Last year we had between 60 and 80 cm snow after the 20 of April, when most trees were in full bloom. So we can just take it as it comes…
may sound silly but my rhubarb have always died here, but last year I put one in and it’s alive!
more exciting than anything else going on outside for me
Do you think I can get Nanking fruits here in North Europe? People say it is too warm… I have two 30cm tall plants
