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  • From: Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] winter kills or not kills
  • Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:14:14 -0700 (PDT)

Sorry to hear that.

On the other hand my Golden Spice, Ure, Early Gold and Federovsk pears
survived -56C with the windchill or -47C without (that is -68.8F or -52.6
according to my metric conversion calculator)and they all have buds on them
about to open up. Now that temperature was at the International airport
where my husband works which is about 1/2 hour drive and that particular
night the ATC guys weren't busy so they looked it up and we were the coldest
recorded place on the planet! Other fruit stuff survived too but is still
too small to blossom.  I should write up an orchard report and post it here
sometime.

Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


> Received: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 11:44 PM
> Lost two Golden Spice pears, two Ure
> pears and a Scout apricot from
> the cold.  46 F below zero is too cold for most fruit
> trees.   Zone
> hardiness declarations are really doubtful.  I planted
> 20 Antonovka
> apples last week.  They should survive the
> winters.  Not great apples
> but they are apples.  Planted three Evans cherry last
> spring by
> covering the graft below the ground.  Mazzard
> rootstock is not hardy.
> The Evans trees made it though the winter OK. 
> Hopefully, they grew
> roots from the Evans trunks.
>
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