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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >Well, I hope all of our fruits make it through, but right now we have  
> 34 degrees predicted for Monday morning and when one lives down in a  
> hollow one knows that one just might see a couple degrees less than  
> predicted. 

Remember though that the fruit is only in danger from such temps (31-34, say) 
when the blossoms are open but not yet pollinated.  It takes a lot colder 
than that to harm the unopened blossoms or the fruit buds once the pedals 
have 
dropped.


Here's a pome and drupe fruit trick:  One big Granny Smith apple tree lost 
its pollinator in the drought last year.  Without a pollinator it will set on 
exactly no fruit.  I went about the immediate neighborhood and broke off 
small 
branches of every wild an abandoned apple tree I could find and hung the 
opening blossoms in my GS tree.  As unlikely as his seems, it works.   </HTML>