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  • From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] No Yellow Jackets???
  • Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:32:50 -0500

Hal, Yes, we had noticed that down in the Central Basin where they run 2 weeks ahead of us, that there was even more damage to the hickories, etc.
Something I'm going to have to watch on my young hicans is that first they lost their main buds in the freeze and had to come out on secondary buds, then those new twigs were damaged by cicadas and now their phi ratios are totally screwed up. By which I mean that their natural grace has been wrecked and the trees could have weird forms when they get old. I'll probably slowly take off side branches and get to the point where all the branching is from above the damaged area. After all, hicans get really tall, and these guys are only about 12 ft tall now.
Ever since we heard a lecture on phi ratios I have been looking more carefully at the way plants grow when they look "right" and how they are messed up when they look "wrong". Donna




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