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  • From: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>
  • To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] no peaches this year :-(
  • Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 11:46:29 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

I lost all the apricots, but mostly the late frost just decreased the amount
of thinning I needed to do on the apples, pears, peaches, etc. I guess we
got lucky or the site is a good one.

Anton
Zone 8-ish
RTP, NC


-----Original Message-----
>From: "V. Michael Bove, Jr." <vmb@teakettlefarm.com>
>Sent: Apr 28, 2016 11:08 AM
>To: "nafex@lists.ibiblio.org" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [nafex] no peaches this year :-(
>
>The seventies-then-below-zero weather we had in late winter here killed the
>flower buds on all six varieties of our peaches. Plums (myrobalan),
>apricots, apples, and pears all seem to be flowering more or less normally,
>but no idea yet about fruit set.
>
>Anyone else on the list get clobbered? We also lost the flower buds on our
>magnolia tree and forsythia bushes.
>
>Michael Bove
>Teakettle Farm, Z6 (MA/RI border)
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