Friday overnight will be the killer
Both Friday and Saturday forecasts proved to be lies.
Cannot depend on any of them.
Theyāre saying 32 now
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74F right now but the hurricane winds arenāt so fun. This should be it for the warmth for awhile. Probably mid month before the 70Fs/80Fs are backā¦that is when iāll plant the tropical stuff/warm weather stuff.
Lots of curculios here. I have breeding program that is strong 
I worry about next Sunday/Monday morningā¦ The 850 temps for Friday look way too warm for any frost/freeze. Maybe in Sparta or some cold drainage spot. Keep an eye on late weekendā¦that is when the colder air slips thruā¦ May 11th thoughā¦that is pretty late even for here for a frost.
Apples are in full bloom as are the sweet cherries. Have seen a ton of bumble bees this year. I had a group of them working the plums/pluotsā¦
Some pluot bloomsā¦with some peaches/etc in the back. May have plenty of peaches to feed the squirrels this summer
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Only plums and honeyberries blooming so far, but Iām also seeing more bumblebeeās than usual for this time of the year. . . nice to see.
@warmwxrules,
Mother Nature is something. You are two zones colder than me, your apples are already in full bloom. Mine just started and wonāt go full bloom until, maybe, 5-7 days from now.
It says it could go as low as 34F by Fri. Wonāt harm fruit but could not get nice stretch of good weather to graft peaches.
Wow. Wild plums here are just starting to think about blooming. Apples are likely at least 2 weeks away from full bloom, and from the looks of the forecast it may be more like 3.
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Iām surprised - my apples are just getting to pink, and Iām a zone warmer than you. Everything else is in full bloom, but the apples are slower than ever.
You are rightā¦i have no idea what I was thinking. My pears are just getting ready to bloom and my I think itās a sweet 16 or mac has opened a few flowers and a graft on my other tree which I believe is HC but not sure (I have a labeling problem) is blooming.
Is HC an early bloomer?
There are a lot of apple flowers this year on all trees. Could be a huge apple crop in Wi if this is any indication.
Mid 60Fs todayā¦ Cooler week. NAEFS still wants to keep ridge in west and trough in east thru mid monthā¦no heatwave any time soon east of the Dakotasā¦
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One thing I noticed and maybe you see that up thereā¦is everything here seems to overlap in blooms. Plums, pluots, sweet cherries, nectarines, apricots and peaches all are blooming at the same time or within a few days.
It always bothers me when the cots are getting to shuck split while the cherry next to them is still in full bloom. I donāt want to spray then. Wish Iād planned better for such things.
Calling for 33 Friday and Sat night here, I sure hope theyāll be accurate this time. A couple times last month they called for 33 and it was in the high 20s.
Iāve got a strawberry patch full of blooms, even a few small berries, and my Prelude raspberry is about to bloom, so I canāt afford another freakinā freeze.
I canāt stand this schizo weather. It was 80 yesterday and sunny, then it came a downpour for about an hour and probably dumped another inch of rain we didnāt need. A couple of my newly planted strawbs were in some puddles, but are okay now.
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Nobody that I know within 3 hours grows anything but apples and pears. Wild American plums abound in the area. Peaches, sweet cherries, nectarines, and apricots wouldnāt stand a chance here, unless grown in pots. Nobody out in the country grows trees in pots 
The majority are in the ground now. I have very few potted fruit trees (less then 5)ā¦last spring killed off about 75% of what i had and iām not replacing. Iām pretty much done with that. I do grow tropicals in pots but that stuff all comes inside. Container trees work but the amount of effort is not worth it at this point.
These are in ground treesā¦ the background blooms are wild plums (on same tree).
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In my garden apples bloom in this order
- Zestar
2.Harralson
3 Golden Delicious and Honeycrisp
Bob, if itās going to be borderline try running a sprinkler over as much as possible, might make all the difference!
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Well GFS is colder now for Sat morning and warmer for Monday morningā¦both offer chances of frost/freeze. Yuck. Probably cover what i can and the fruit trees can deal with it. Hopefully it sticks between 28-32Fā¦ Hope for wind and clouds.
Of course after mid month itāll probably jump into the 80Fs or 90Fsā¦
Thanks, but I donāt have a sprinkler big enough to cover the whole patch. I have covered them with tarps for previous freezes, and it did okay, but I donāt have enough to cover them all. Guess Iāll lose some more. Theyāve revised the forecast at 32/34 Fri/Sat nights.
This is way too late in the spring to be dealing with this. Strawberries are touchy tooā¦i know iāve had them get hit in previous years. I have some that are open already so iāll have to blanket them.
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We need a weather pattern change!