Oh crap

Hey @BG1977 @dpps @PharmerDrewee @growjimgrow @zendog etc how did things work out for you from this March 29th freeze? I saw almost no damage right afterwards. Now is when you can finally tell though. I was out surveying yesterday and it looks like my apricots got nicely thinned (very little thinning will be needed, I have about a 1/3 crop), the hybrid plums are fully loaded, and the pure Asian plums are a mix … Satsuma Laroda and Howard Miracle are like the apricots, 1/3 of a crop. Weeping Santa Rosa has very few plums whereas it usually sets very well and very consistently year to year. Everything else appears to have taken no damage at all, Euro plums cherries and pears all OK. It was too early to matter for the apples.

Since I took 21F this is not a bad result all in all. But it is a good reminder that you need to wait to really know what the damage is, everything looked 100% until recently.

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