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

> If the sap flows the trees will grow new branches and spurs and your trees 
> will be fine.


Great! That's good to hear. Thanks much!


> If my cherry trees and your apricot trees both did this due to winter killed 
> buds, I hope last winter was unusually cold for your location. If so, maybe 
> it will not happen again.


No, it wasn't unusually cold here last winter. (It HAS been very dry, so 
that might have been a contributing factor.) But in my case, I think it 
was the normal circumstance of apricots just blooming too early here. 
The tree had started blooming when the temperature dropped to 23° one 
night. That killed the blossoms and the unopened flower buds, and I can 
only assume that it killed most of the leaf buds, too.

Here in Nebraska, we often get very warm spring weather - sometimes for 
weeks - followed by an arctic front that swoops down with a hard freeze. 
Well, it's not really a good place to grow apricots. So far, my attempts 
to delay them (I've got the Goldcot and also a two-year old Hardy 
Chinese - Mormon? Chinese Golden?) from breaking dormancy haven't worked 
too well. But I expected that when I planted them.

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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