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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> Actually the only danger from anything but a real deep freeze in the  
> low
> twenties for these fruit trees is when the blossoms are fully open  
> by not yet
> fertilized.  One group of pear tress had set the fruit before the  
> coldest temps
> and one group opened their blossoms just after.  Luck, that.

I was researching apricot trees this morning. There is a fair range of  
blossom timing that those of us who are challenged with late frosts  
can choose cultivars that have a later starting time.