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Tanis,
If your apples were enough ahead of ours because of your sandy soil it might be freeze damage, but our apples didn't have damage that I noticed.  The Snows didn't have many blooms, but that may be because they've been so heavily laden for the past few years. 

There were two beautiful flower clusters on a third-leaf Red Baron on Antonovka rootstock.  Does anyone know if Red Baron has a reputation for precocity?

Muffy Barrett
SC Wisconsin,  where we're due for a good hard frost any day now since the Actinidia kolomicta are in bud and even the Actinidia polygama have flower buds showing.

-- tanis grif  wrote:


Ironic, huh?  Of the apples I grow, I know 2 of their cultivar names: Snow and
Tolman Sweet.  The Snow blossoms this spring were deformed in petal and true flower
parts, so much so I nearly blamed it on the neighbor's ag spraying.  Then I saw same
damage about half as bad on the TS, which is far less likely to receive spray drift.
 Other trees (forgotten names & chance-seedlings) had less blossom deformity, but
some of these are taller and I lacked time/ambition to do evals via ladder.
Tanis Cuff, s.WI,