Maybe the fruit buds got bit by a freeze, but I just don’t remember it getting that cold over the last month, at least not enough to kill the fruit buds. It would have to be like 15-20 degrees for that to happen.
It was pretty cold in Feb, when it got down to single digits, but that shouldn’t hurt fruit buds while the trees are dormant. My trees aren’t exactly in an open vase style but would that have an effect on fruit buds on peaches?
When I was inspecting the trees about a month ago, I thought there were plenty of fruit buds on them, maybe I was mistaken.
A lot of my trees are acting opposite of what I’ve expected this year. With my biggest apple and pear trees, last year I made a concerted effort to pull down branches to near horizontal, and it appears they aren’t showing any blooms, unlike some other of my apples and pears that have less than ideal branch angles.
I know some trees will bloom if they’re in less than ideal conditions or aren’t doing well, so maybe that’s why that’s happening with a few of them. But, I have some somewhat “normal” trees that are blooming so it’s not all looney tunes.
It would be just my luck that we might not have a killing frost this year and we end up with a bunch of trees that aren’t blooming.
It looks like all three of our old Milam apples and an unknown variety are just starting to show some pink buds. A couple of them did nothing last year.
