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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Del,

Are you talking just apples?  Around here I see the same thing, apples
produce abundantly with no water (or any other management for that matter).
But peaches seem to be a different thing.  Folks have a hard time having
success with peaches.  After visiting a very successful peach orchard last
spring, I've come to believe the main problem is peaches need a drink when
it's dry.  But I think you're referring just to apples.

Mark
KS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Del Stubbs" <>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Effect of drought on fruit / irrigation


> We have had two drought summers in succession, my orchard is made up of 5
to 10 year old
> trees, mostly seedling rootstock. Because of its location and layout there
is no easy way
> to irrigate. Shallow top soil, with 340' of pure clay underneath. They
have never been
> irrigated, and yet showed virtually  no drought stress either summer, even
when the
> ground cracked open 1". This makes me think that forcing roots to go down
and out they
> way they have is the healthiest thing I could have done. The orchard is on
a SE facing
> slope with quite varied pitch, so gravity drip is  near impossible
anyway - and would
> have concentrated roots within the drip cone. Also, I did no fertilizing
the first few
> years and little major pruning - all to promote root growth over top
growth. Looks like
> it's a success, the apples this fall ( 55 kinds) were overall quite large
and juicy in
> spite of no rain for 2 months mid-summer.
> Del, z 3a   MN
>
>
> > -- Sue Christensen  wrote:
> > All this talk about how the microclimate or soil conditions in
> > various state affects how fruit tastes has me wondering. What  is the
> > effect of a dry year on fruit quality versus a year that is overly
> > rainy from the norm? ( I'm not sure I would know a "norm" if it hit
> > me between the eyes.)
> >
> > Sue in  Adams County, PA
> >
>
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