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[John Smith <friendly27sw@yahoo.com>]

I was visiting my mother in Iowa 4b/5a a few weeks ago
and a normally very reliable local seedling peach tree
she has right next to a concrete patio area adjacent
to the house lost all the fruit buds this year except
two branches overhanging the patio.  Must have been
just enough temperature difference at a critical time
to save them.

--- Scott Williamson <ScottW@acespower.com> wrote:

> That's interesting.  My grandpa's 'compost pile'
> peach tree has only
> missed 1 or 2 years of production in the 10+ years
> he's had it.  He's up
> around Ft. Wayne with no lakes or anything close by
> and his climate
> isn't all that different than central Indiana.
> 
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> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of Whipple, Andy
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:43 PM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] No peaches this year
> 
> 
> 
> Likewise I'm in 5b in east central Indiana, too far
> from the lakes to
> have their moderating effects.  My experience over
> two decades of trying
> to grow peaches is that perhaps one in three years I
> have a chance at a
> peach crop.  As per Scott this appears to be one of
> those crop years,
> unless a very late frost, plum curculio, or a
> hailstorm intercedes.
> 
>  
> 
> Andy Whipple
> 
>  
> 
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> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of Scott Williamson
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:32 PM
> To: Dennis Norton; North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] No peaches this year
> 
>  
> 
> I'm in zone 5b Indiana and I have for the first year
> a bunch of peaches
> and a few nectarines already.  Very small still, but
> they are definitely
> there.  Apparently it didn't affect my area.
> 
>  
> 
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> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of Dennis Norton
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:24 PM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: [NAFEX] No peaches this year
> 
> I don't know about anyone else in Zone 5/5a but we
> will have very few
> peaches this year on our 900+ peach trees.  After
> having consulted with
> our entomologist who services northern Illinois,
> Wisconsin, southern
> Michigan and southern Minnesota, he indicated that
> is also the case at
> other orchards in his territory, especially southern
> Michigan.  Seems
> like the several +50 degree days we had in January
> were enough to fake
> out the peach trees into thinking it was time to
> come out of dormancy.
> Just about the time they woke up, it went to below
> zero for a few nights
> and bingo!  We have plenty of buds, but very few
> blossoms.  Anyone else
> experience this?  Now, our pears are a different
> story.  We have more
> blossoms than we can remember for quite a few years.
>  Go figure.
> 
>     
> 
> Dennis Norton
> Royal Oak Farm Orchard
> http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
> http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
> 
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