Looking at the forecast sounds like a cold front is hitting the eastern/Midwestern states the next 2 days. I’m in southwest Ohio and it doesn’t looks like 34° temps. My buddy in North GA says it will be °26 degrees at their higher elevations. I recently bench grafted a few dozen apples that have already started breaking buds and sprouting leaves. What temperatures can these grafts withstand? It’s not going to be cold enough to damage fruit buds or flowers here just concerned about the small scions.
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Depends on the type of budwood you used for the scions, but even chip buds can handle well below freezing, much more hardy than leaves and blossoms.
It has been chilly here again too, more so than most years. And we’ve got a skiff of snow again. No trees blooming yet though, so that’s a blessing.
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USDA zone 6b south west Ohio sounds like you are in south central Cincinnati possibly as far east as Mount Washington.
Yeah I’m in the Cincinnati region. It’s saying 34° low for Saturday and Sunday. Is that gonna kill the newly emerging leaf tissue you guys think? Scions are probably 3" pencil diameter first year fresh healthy pieces with leaf now just emerging. I don’t remember if I said this or not but they are apple
When I did my pear graft a taped a longer support stick to the limb and hung a tin can over it so It was protected. remove the can in the morning so it doesn’t heat up in the sun.
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34 shouldn’t kill anything, fruit or foliage. That hasn’t happened to me in 50 yrs growing fruit with many spring freezes.
The one time I had major damage of foliage, limbs, and trees in spring was after about one foot of new growth and it dropped to upper teens. That killed trees.