Dan - Most things are open or opening, so most of those would have been hit hard by the weekend’s cold. The ones still tight bud are Montmorency Cherry, Mt. Royal Plum, Drippin’ honey in a container. Apples are silver tip. Drippin’ honey pear in ground starting to move.
I put about 1/3 of my trees in containers for this type of a situation, but most are not producing (much) yet.
“There’s always next year” 
Hi, Front Rangers! Do any of you grow nectarines? I haven’t planted any because 1) I’m not a big fan and 2) I thought there were no cold-hardy ones, but I’m thinking about it because 1) my husband is a big fan and 2) I see elsewhere on this site that there are a couple of supposedly cold-hardy ones (Mericrest and Hardired). Those of us who deal with not only cold winters but also erratic springs need to know if they’re also late-blooming and/or bud-hardy. Insights?
I have a well established Arctic Glo nectarine tree. I got it based solely on reports of it’s taste profile.
My tree has only had a crop one year - most years it produces too early and gets frozen. That said, I’ll continue to roll with it because the one year I had it come in, it was the best fruit in my backyard. It has the perfect amount of acid for me. As far as the overall tree, it is very healthy and can take what the front range winters are putting out without the tree dying.
I think you’d be fine with a nectarine as long as your know that it’ll get frozen out more often that peaches. Also, without the fuzz it’s far more likely to experience insect and/or bird damage than my peaches…
Good perspective! Thanks! And that’s interesting about peach fuzz having a protective effect against insects and birds. Makes sense… I never thought about its function.
Came to this a bit late, but welcome @fruitnut. Glad to have you and your expertise nearby (even without all your trees and critters).
You asked further up about folks with GHs, and I have a couple (one small and a larger one). Not quite the same as the plains, as I am at 8300’ in the foothills. You are welcome to come look at mine at any point (but they will be in better shape after I can get to their spring cleaning). Don’t think I have ever used my GHs as well as you did your old ones, but might give you some ideas.
As others have said, this is not your typical winter/spring for here. Not much snow and quite warm temps. Enjoy it, but don’t count on it…
Hi Steve, thank you for the invite. I’ll have to come see you sometime.
I saw recently that you are having some issues with your potted citrus. Not sure I could help any with that but did grow both potted and inground citrus in my GH. Are all your greenhouse plants in pots? What do you have in the GH other than citrus? How big are your greenhouses?
All the citrus are in pots, and a fig. Most other things are in raised beds or the ground. Mostly perennials, with a few annuals thrown in for things which just won’t produce outside here at 8300’ (tomatoes, cukes, peppers, grapes). They are used primarily just for personal production, for the family and friends, no commercial endeavors.
This is the big “spring change over” in the GHs. Taking out the winter crops and starting to put in the summer ones. Of coarse the perennials stay there year round. Things will be a bunch more organized and presentable in a few weeks, the GHs and the garden.
Get in touch offline and we can figure out a convenient time to have you come over.
Time to start hand-pollinating the Paw Paws. I will probably do this about 3 times - ony takes about 10 minutes.
Very nice, looks like lots of potential.
You got a plan to protect them from Friday’s low temps? Tree looks manageable for covering.
That’s what I’m thinking about right now. I have more pears and peaches set fruitlets than I ever have before… I was quite surprised, given a cold snap we had in the 20’s (some of the trees are just coming into producing now).
It seems they’re likely to get zapped… weather.gov is now threatening 22F!! I may try and enclose a few things and add some water barrels, maybe some christmas lights and insulation wrap on some limbs? Of course, secretly, I’m hoping for the forecast to be an awful forecast 
I have a lot to lose. It has taken me 4 years to whip my Himrod vine into shape and it was ready to produce a bumper crop. The forecast her is for 27 Friday night which is enough for 90% loss of the new growth. That does not mean 90% loss of harvest as secondary buds will grow but may only produce about 30% of wha the primary buds did. I am going to try to cover it with old sheets.
Here is the lamb before the slaughter.
My Somerset vine is nearly as developed but I am less concerned there since a 30% crop is acceptable. I usually pinch off about 2/3rds of the bunches anyway.
My Trollhaugen vine is way behind and may not get hurt too badly at 27 degrees.
I do plan to try to throw sheets over the Paw Paw trees. They are at peak bloom if not slightly past.
I grafted Asian and European pears to Bradfor pear trees last spring. I have about 15 european pears and 60 asisn pears formed that I could lose.
I put out my tomato plants out in walls-o-water several weeks ago and they are eager to grow out the top but need to keep them sealed for the weekend. They will be fine
Jerry, I think we need tree-sized walls of water! Try putting some heat source under the sheets…
Ross, we probalby would kill ourselves with those!!!
Here to commiserate with my Front Range friends. Over here in the Eastern Sierra at 5600’ the forecast is for 24 tonight. After a March warm spell with highs in the 80s, my young peach and apricot trees are covered with tiny fruits for the first time, along with a Seckel pear…. Winds around 25 with gusts to 40, so no use trying to cover any. I expect to lose all the fruits and most of the leaves; just hope the trees survive!
Ha. Forecast exaggerated. It got down to 30 F… no damage to trees. Wishing you all faulty forecasts! (In the right direction!) 
Anybody else getting peaches this year? Oddly enough, after our freeze a few weeks ago the peaches survived. There are so many that I will need to thin.
Apricots, apples and pears are pretty much shot. Everything bloomed 3 weeks ahead of schedule unfortunately. The grapes should be leafing out right about now, but had leaves almost a month ago that are now nice and brown and crispy.
I’m interested in hearing how different fruits did for various members.
I seem to have no p;ums on 3 small trees - one in it’s third year ande 2 in year 2.
Two of my grapevines(Somerset and Himroid) lost aboput 2/3rds of their shoots. A few days in I cleaned out the damages tuff will get some fruit this year and a few new shoots forming. The thord grapevien(Trolhaugen) was way behond and not as damages - maybe 25%.
In sprinmg of 2025 I grafted Hosuio and Shinseiki asian pears onto a Bradford pear. The Shinseiki pears were killed but Hosui made it.
I seem to have many baby Paw Paw fruits - they seem to be tough.
The few european pears from, my grafts seem motsly OK.
I can’t tell yet. Definitely some losses here, but I’m hoping some of my earliest and latest blooming apples will still fruit. Pears are a question mark still. Blueberries also unsure. Grapes are a bit behind you and I think will be ok. When it was so warm in March, I was pretty pessimistic that this would be a good year. I think we’ll do ok with strawberries and currants.
Saw today that West Slope peaches are a bust this year 
