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[Rondi <dee@mokalive.com>]

We have reblooming here occassionally after a hard rain that is following a
long hard drought. I've seen it happening in late August twice in the past 7
years. I didn't notice it with apple trees though. It happened to the shurbs
like the forsynthia.

Rondi

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> From: Jim F <bonfire58_2000@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Re Todd Ravitch's re-blooming trees
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> I had fruit trees and berry bushes doing a second bloom too.  This is
> Minnesota and I have never seen anything like it before.  I blamed it on the
> freakish winter - we had no snow.  Unlike Todd's unusually cool weather just
> prior to his re-bloom, no related mechanism was observed here.  Of the other
> researchers with whom I rub elbows, we all dismissed it as something
> unexplainable.  Does anyone have an explanation?
> 
> Jim Fruth
> Pequot Lakes, MN