Recent content by Native Hunter

The flowers will look the same on both. Wild chicory has small, waxy leaves, and the good forage varieties have bigger and more tender leaves. I've seen bucks take 18 inches out of the top of a chicory plant in one bite - stem and all.

Pears do great here 4 out of 5 years with one exception. Frost pockets are devastating on them. Apple production is also affected by frost pockets but not to the extent of pears. I've seen some big, nice mature pear trees not fruit for 10 years, despite the fact that they are covered with...

The crazy thing is that snow can actually give an "igloo effect" and insulate blooms from freezing temperatures. In my case it probably isn't much, but at the critical threshold it might be just enough to save a few blooms. We were right at the 90% kill temp.

Snow on pear blooms.

Under typical freeze conditions you can expect a 10% kill at 24 degrees and a 90% kill at 15 degrees when the blooms are still in a tight cluster. At full bloom those numbers go up to 29 and 24 degrees. First white just beginning to show in the blooms is in between those numbers. At the...

Got one more pic to cap the day off - snow on pear blossoms.

EHD kills and severe dehydration kills - pick your poison... 🦌

One thing you can do to really help quail is to plant an improved and aggressive variety of partridge pea like they sell at Roundstone. It keeps finding a way to come back year after year - even when perennials start to take over the ground. It can also be easily brought back by light disking...

My pears and a few early crabs are going to see 20 degrees tonight. But, it doesn’t matter. I have a new secret weapon to bait deer - it’s called WATER.

That looks like classic sunscald to me, and the location is on the correct side of the tree. I've had a couple of cases where it eventually killed the tree. Shown below is a link to the most insane case of it I have ever seen. The bark completely came loose from the entire trunk...

If my apples freeze out I won’t act so mature. That would mean no fried apple pies.

Our pears are in full bloom, and Monday night is forecasted to drop to 19 degrees. But I can’t complain - I’m overdue a pear failure. Great crops several years in a row.

You will probably be okay since it has only been one year, and the plants are so small. However, as Hoytv pointed out above, the tap roots are a problem on larger trees. If you can move the dirtball around them rather than just taking them out of the ground, it will make success more likely.

Yes, I spelled it wrong. I have corrected the post above. Thanks for pointing it out.

Sure, just tape it up with some electrical tape and by the end of the season it should be healed back. You might want to put something like a piece of thin plastic between the tape and bark to keep the tape from sticking to the bark.