These are what I call “tomato frosts” not “fruit frosts”.
Which is just like it sounds, it might hurt the tomato plants etc but probably won’t hurt fruits at all.
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I got 35 and clear in the forecast and winds 14mph with gusts like 30
I am looking ok on the stone fruit. My Flavor Queen was nearly full bloom and lost most of those, but there was stralgers and i should have a few this year. Spash and Shiro bloomed later and set well. Satsuma I noticed blooms survive while in the bud stage but they are all ovum killed, so the flowers hopefuly at least provded pollen. I think the geo pride set some also. Cherry look like they made it though no problem but Im having a hard time telling if the euros even flowered.
Early honeyberres are a lost but the later ones are flowering now.
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I am surprised that the honeyberry blossoms froze. I thought they could take cold.
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I lost all the plum and pluot (grafting to it) flower to the end of March freeze. The pear trees looked normal and flowered normally, at least I thought so. The Ayer flowered after freeze, and finished flowering quite a few days ago. But I could find any fruit setting at all! All the flower clusters or what’s left of them have dried up. Is this because of freeze?
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me too. mine have taken low 20’s in flower and fruited just fine. ive never not had berries if flowers showed up.
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As Ive been paying more attention to the weather in regards to my fruiting trees, it seems common occurrence for there to be a 2-3 day period of freezing weather right at the time of blooming ( around now) in the midst of 60s,70s, and even 80s. Its really funny how it happens to occur just right when the fruiting trees are in full bloom; as if timed perfectly to destroy the crop…
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Tender leaves took 17 and no harm. That’d be borderline for a bloom.
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33 right now on a predicted low of 37. Colder tonight. Lows keep on coming. .
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It clouded over here after midnight, so it never got below 35 last night.
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It got to 40 In my area
Atleast as of now
Ouch, hope it doesn’t drop too much more. For fruit 28F or so now is below when things are going to start to get damaged.
We got only 35F last night, same as @BG1977…
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Only the very newest growth was froze out. Some blooms but not all and I thought the blooms had survived. Today the blooms are gone and i dont know if its freeze or pollinators.
Just 37 here this morning, no more temps close to that for the next ten days, but we’re supposed to get more rain. Need a break from the wet stuff for a while.
42 at 6 a.m. and I got back in bed.
36/35 the two previous nights.
Have not covered the tomato plants and they look good…been out 13 days I think.
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It dropped to 33F here two days ago, 37F this morning… Forecast looks good going forward. Hopefully whatever survived the 25F temps on 4/10 won’t have anything else to put them in jeopardy (besides deer of course).
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