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Moisture reduction... lower temperatures... I think available LIGHT is major 
factor!  Sept 21 sun is approx March 21, and decreases fast.


----Original Message Follows----
From: "David Doud" >
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Hardening-off Question
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:37:00 -0500

a factor (major) is the draw down/removal of moisture from tissue - -


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Fruth" <>
To: <nafex@>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:18 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Hardening-off Question


>    Here's a question a lot of us wold like to know the answer to:  Does
> anyone have an answer?  "Physiologically speaking, what happens inside 
the
> branches, twigs, trunk, etc. of fruit trees as the harden off for the
> winter?"
> --
>