Am waiting patiently for the winter season to be really over! We’ve gone through freezes, hail, rainstorms, high winds, right during the peak bloom… Still looking forward to this again! One can always dream… there’s always next year.
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When you live in California, you are not dreaming, the land of fruit, i am dreaming seeing something like that, Joe
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I’m just venting out my frustrations about the latest series of events during the peak bloom of my multi-grafted tree. Normally storms come in December to January when the tree is dormant and so they don’t affect the tree. This year is different, series of storms, possible hail and strong winds are still on the radar right through the peak blooms. I may get just 10-20% of the regular fruits if I’m lucky this year.
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Joe, i can make it stop just watch
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And here lies my unborn fruits. Long dead before their time. Freezing nights, hail, rains and strong winds did them in. 
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Sofar so good here in Arkansas. Feb/March uselessly the bad months. We had our share of bad weather One year we had snow in May.
Joe sometimes those tree’s will have a second bloom if the king bloom are frozen.
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Yup. I have a 150-n-1 tree with 131 of them having flower buds when the winter season was ending. About 75% were in bloom when disasters struck. So I would still have about 25% remaining capacity.
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Here’s hoping that nature has thinned the crop for you!
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happened in the past when the hails hit similarly, I ended up with a lot of deformed fruits. 
Just got your sionwood this afternoon, that is a nice stick, hope i don’t mess it up.
Thanks Bob.
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Wow Joe. That is bad luck!
Tony
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Just pea sized this time. It stings like a dozen paint balls hitting me so I have to abandon my gardening for the rest of the day.
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