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["John Barbowski" <jbarbowski@gmail.com>]

After hitting -9C last night, my cherry leaves are finally starting to drop. Had at least 80% still on before the freeze. They will be all gone in a day or so or with any wind.

 

Peaches had lost theirs a couple of weeks ago.

 

Apples are another thing. Yes, they did freeze last night, but I will only lose 50% of the foliage. The rest of the leaves go haphazardly right into February. The leaves used to be a pain when they dropped on my ice rink. The sun warmed them up and caused some melted depressions.  Ditto for my pears.

 

Wasn't it an earlier post by a NAFEXer that said the magnetic poles were reversing? If the trees resond to magnetic sources, this might generate an interesting effect.

 

jmb

Canadian Zone 6b just north of Toronto