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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> Yes, this seems late for the apples to hold their leaves, and it seems 
> like everything else is holding leaves longer than usual, too.  The 
> oak leaves are only about 1/2 down.


My apples don't seem to have lost a leaf yet, but everything has been 
slow to drop leaves this year (not that bad, though). Of course, it's 
been a very warm fall, at least until the last couple of days. It was 78 
degrees on Monday (only 12° now).

It's also been very dry. We've had only .05" of precipitation in the 
last month, which is low even for us. (Yet we're way ahead for the year. 
It's been a very strange year, weather-wise.) But I don't know if that 
would affect leaf drop.

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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