In the charts my euro pears should be ok and the Asians are maybe 50% damage at the worst… so not super worried about them relatively speaking. Of course it depends how cold it ends up getting. It’s gonna be bad for some stuff though, too much clear sky and cold wind.
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Sure. With overcast days, they are completely bland, so sun is important. They are sweet with little tartness in the skins, and they get spice and then papaya sort of flavors the sunnier weather you have. I’ve only had one bland year here, from two weeks of gray skies during ripening.
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Okay thanks for the description. I might give it a try next year on my wild plum. It’s not even close to blooming yet, but the little green buds are plump and will probably pop open in a few weeks.
I think most of my peach buds might be okay, there are some open blossoms, but most are still closed.
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Looks good. Hoping for the best.
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Sounds good! My Americana blooms much later than Bruce, too. He blooms with plumcots, really early, through early Japanese plums. That’s how I know the blooms survive really low temps, lol. I still haven’t tasted a Flavor Queen plumcot due to deep freezes.
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What concerns me is that it’s already 23, and it’s just now midnight.
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I have Dapple Dandy, Flavor King and Geo Pride, planted them 4 years ago. They first started blooming two years ago, always too early for here. I wish I’d picked some other type of tree fruit, because this is not the locale for them. Shoot, my 5-6 year old peach trees have yet to produce a decent crop, three of them are quite large, but nada.
Just 30 here now, at about 1am, but it’s not supposed to be as cold tonight as last night.
Just above freezing here at 3 .a.m. the coldest for the entire 3 nights about 25 here…so little additional damage here. Peaches and part of the asian pears got frozen here the last time back a fortnight ago.
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20 degrees here at 5am. Got colder earlier and for longer than yesterday. It was 28 or just below by midnight. I stayed out again until just now spreading good words of great cheer to all my fruit trees. I thought it might be getting warmer around 3 but turns out I was just numb.
Let’s see those 60s and 70s again!
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Looks like we’ll bottom out around 23 here unless there is a last-minute dip lower. @Rosdonald you certainly get the dedication award and I hope you get every piece of fruit from your trees for your hard work!
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Frederick airport shows 27F, every other place with an hour shows 21-23F, closer in to DC or Baltimore show 24F. We are probably 23F, based on what’s usual. At least the wind died down, yesterday felt like the house would blow away, and I could see birds having trouble.
20 as I look at my weather station here.
21F here… not good. I ran my grill most of the night under my biggest apricot but it was windy enough that I don’t know if it helped. We will know in a day or so when the damage is apparent.
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Yeah, I haven’t actually been outside yet.
I wasn’t able to protect my stone fruits at all, so I’m not super hopeful. The lows were supposedly 21 here last night. Here are some pictures of the damage at 8:30am Tuesday morning. What do you think, is there any hope?
Summer delight aprium:
Saturn peach:
Hollywood plum:
I think my other fruit might be ok? The paw paws are still just fat brown buds, and the figs, mulberries, and issai kiwi hadn’t really started growing yet. The currants and honey berries had started growing, but I think they’re super cold Hardy so should be ok? I don’t know what’s going to happen to the blackberries, they just have little green leaflets, but I think they froze.
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It seems a bunch of my flowers look like that also, brown on the pedals and droopy. It looks like some of the buds didn’t open yet, so there is still hope. I think it takes a few days to be able to tell if they died. Fingers crossed they didn’t.
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Low of only 30 here this morning, so not as cold as predicted. Close to 80 tomorrow, and no more freezes for the next week. But there will be more. We’ve had freezes in the last couple of May’s.
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Those tighter buds on the peaches might actually be OK, but your aprium looks pretty screwed.
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Yep feel that pain and then some. Calling for two nights of 24-25* and I’m planning for major losses this year…
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