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["Gianni" <GIANNI-2@prodigy.net>]

Hi Kevin:

 

Along the Massachusetts/NH border, near the coastline....

When we had the unusual warm spell back when (early spring), I got out there and sprayed 

with a kelp spray.

The peaches went nuts and threw flowers and began setting fruit and then baboom, the cold hit.

Unlike you I didn't have many fall plantings but did get some Bai ming tao or peento/donut peach

(Many thanks to: Mark Garrison) arrive in the tail end of March and had to build a fire over the

nursery bed to warm the ground to get them in, which I did. These are showing the slow growth

and emergence of leaves at a very slow pace and believe overall the weather did affect them.

With the old growth peaches after the spray the peaches never suffered any loss or flower drop

or anything and have fruit and are developing. My grapes well, had I sprayed them I believe they

would not have been frost killed and now sporting die back all over.

Some trees here are showing problems with the cold/warm event and are definitely affected by

the weird weather. And have literally die back along with new growth. looks strange.

It looks on a whole we are set back about 2 weeks for bud/leaf development on deciduous trees

and on a whole the bizarre weather did and is having an effect, almost retarding normal development

for apple, pears the whole gamut. And the weather continues to be unusually cold and is having

a detrimental effect.

 

Hope this helps...

Best of growing,

~Gianni

----- Original Message -----

From: edforest55@hotmail.com

To: nafex@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:03 AM

Subject: [nafex] trees not leafing out

In Indiana, Maine, and Wisconsin I have been hearing reports of fruit
trees not leafing out.
We had a very very mild winter here in S WI, and an average spring,
no surprises. The only unusual occurrence that I am aware of is that
we had an unusally late warm fall with a sudden cold spell, all of my
trees had vibrant green leaves when this cold hit, killing the
leaves.
Two types of trees are having trouble for me this spring:
Pears that were transplanted last fall, (had to do it when they still
had their green leaves as the soil was freezing). The pears that I
didn't transplant didn't have any problems. I didn't spring
transplant any pears to compare them to.
Peaches, both those that bore a heavy crop and those that didn't crop
at all.
All other trees seem ok. I fall transplanted many apples no problems
so far.
Have others had problems in fall transplanting pears?
Why do you suppose my peaches are struggling?
Many thanks
kevin b.




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