chickenlittle
5 year old buck +
Patchy frost here tomorrow morning with calm winds and clear skies. I watered my nursery this evening and will water again early tomorrow if I can get up early enough.
Will you be okay at that temp? I hit 25 last night but only a couple trees were showing any pink. Most are still silver. Another frost tonight then again Saturday. These trees are stressful.Damn, snow yesterday, and now it is 28 with a frost! I'm still at TC to first pink.
Will you be okay at that temp? I hit 25 last night but only a couple trees were showing any pink. Most are still silver. Another frost tonight then again Saturday. These trees are stressful.
No, I'm fine. My wife and I just went out and looked and all is well. We lost a bunch of King blossoms when we were at 1/4", so thinning will be a challenge in my commercial orchards. I'm not worried about the deer trees. They will get the thinning that nature gave them and that will have to do.Will you be okay at that temp? I hit 25 last night but only a couple trees were showing any pink. Most are still silver. Another frost tonight then again Saturday. These trees are stressful.
It's going to be challenging up here this year TC. Not sure how we are going to thin as our king blossoms took a big hit. Some clusters are down to 2's and 3's. Even Carbaryl will be tough to use.Yea I saw that a few days ago as well. Always a challenge when you are dealing with Ma Nature.
I got hit hard too. I can see the blossoms dried on the tree. All of my HC are not bearing this year grrrrrr. Have some apples with King David leading the way and my cider varieties doing awesome as they are late bloomers so were protected. We had 11 or 12 degrees one night that kicked out ass so sadMy Massachusetts apple trees took a big hit. Out of 35 apple trees most have no blossom at all, a few have between 1-20 blossoms per tree. The tree that has the most blossoms is the one Braeburn tree I have it has lots of blossoms. My golden Delicious tree has a few hundred blossoms. My 2 pear trees have a few blossoms on them 20 or 30 . For the most part I consider it a total lost.
So I have some grafts that have been actively growing in a bucket in peat moss for 5 weeks (grafted about 7 weeks ago), can I transplant them saturday (my most free day) knowing that it'll be at least a low of 30 that night?
ouch that really hurts as I assume you were at full pink of bloom? You wont have a hard time telling if they are toast I cut some that were in cold and they looked good but then the blossom opened more the bud was deadSupposedly 24 at our place last night. Not good. I am heading up today.