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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] winter kills or not kills
  • Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 18:34:02 -0500

Trees don't have an internal heat source so windchill doesn't matter
to them. Tell me about Federovsk pears. Must be Russian.

---- Original Message ----
From: skkewing@yahoo.com
To: 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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