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Re: [nafex] cold damage to trees



At 03:13 AM 04/18/2001 -0400, Ed wrote:
>      Last night, temps. fell to around 20 degrees.  Apples and pears are
>full-bloom to 95% post bloom (esp. pear).  Peaches, Japanese plum,
>nectarine, etc. are in shuck-split (early fruit development).
>This temperatures will not only take the fruit off, there will be some
>damage to tissue (leaves, minor cracking of bark, etc.) which promotes
>the rapid development of fireblight in apple and pear.

Yep.  It was 32 on the front porch this morning.  Took a quick walk through 
the orchard while the coffee was brewing.  Probably was even colder out 
there.  Everything was frozen - leaves, new shoots, you name it - I even 
snapped off an 'asparagusicle' to munch on the way back to the house.
Bet I'll have some black, wilted foliage when I get home this evening, and 
it may have doomed the majority of the fruit for this season.
Temps are supposed to be back up into the 80's again within a couple of days.

Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY


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