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["victoria l. caron" <vicaron@gis.net>]

I've had this happen once to an Early Cort apple tree. The advice I followed
then was to keep the tree from drying out by misting it daily to hopefully
help keep the buds soft enough to pop. It took a good part of that summer for
it to leaf out to maybe 50%. It took about three years to recover from what
was assumed to be freeze damage caused by the second frost in mid Oct. or 15F
after a warm fall in '96.
vic NH zone 3

edforest55@hotmail.com wrote:

> 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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