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  • From: W3cmp@aol.com
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Ernesto
  • Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 09:40:36 EDT

Hello all:
     Woke up this morning after a fitful night of sleep/listening to winds and found orchard askew.  Pristine (with no apples) on CG-10 broke  2" diam. treated support stake at ground level and tree snapped off at graft-seems like CG-10 rootstock grafts are a little brittle; several semi dwarf on M7 blew over in clay-rich soil that turns to muck with winds and rain (one tree staked after Isabel went over for 2d time)-will try to pull them up and stake or restake them; also several dwarf apple trees full of fruit snapped 2" support stakes and went down but they appear not to have snapped any roots.  Trees with 3" support stakes (all support stakes from Adams County nursery) seemed to weather storm OK.  Lost no peach trees but fruit all over ground.
     Clay rich soil turns to muck and with wind from east-northeast rocking trees back and forth they finally go over.  Also seems like M7 trees in clay-rich soild do require staking!
Chris Patterson SE Pa. near Lancaster 



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