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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

We live fairly close to each other. You could drive to my house is less 
than 3 hours. After mid to upper 70s all week, I see the forecast low 
for Monday night is 12 degrees F (about -11 C). The apples and American 
Hybrid plums are showing green tips on the buds. The pears and European 
plums mostly are not showing green.
Apples are so forgiving, I bet they will be OK. I'm not so sure about 
everything else.

Steve in the Adirondacks


On 3/22/2012 1:49 PM, Caren Kirk wrote:
>    Steve,
>
> I'm suffering the same weather pattern as you with astonishingly warm
> weather beating all  existing records by over 10 degrees C. Weathermen
> say that it'll be over tomorrow but I'm stressed about getting my
> pruning on the go all the same.
>
> The yo-yo temperature pattern we experienced this winter seem to be
> continuing. I wonder how it will affect all my fruits.
>
> Caren Kirk
> St. Jerome QC
>
> On 3/19/2012 10:24 PM, Steve wrote:
> > On 3/18/2012 10:22 PM, Steve wrote:
> > > On 3/18/2012 2:34 PM, sherwin wrote:
> > > > On 3/18/2012 12:49 PM, Steve wrote:
> > > > > I'm thinking of going out and starting my pruning. It may not seem early
> > > > > to some of you but it's early here. I usually wait until late April when
> > > > > the chance of real cold weather is mostly over. I just checked and our
> > > > > normal high and normal low for this date is 37 and 14 degrees F.
> > > > > Today it's already 70 degrees and the lows for the rest of the week are
> > > > > in the 40s. I think I'm going to start pruning, at least the apples,
> > > > > right now, even though it could easily get into the single digits on any
> > > > > given night for the next 3 or 4 weeks.
> > > > > Does anyone think this is a mistake? Apples are pretty forgiving but
> > > > > what about my pears and plums?
> > > > >
> > > > > Steve in the Adirondacks
> > > >           Steve,
> > > >
> > > >           As far as I know, the main requirement for pruning is that the
> > > > tree is dormant.
> > > >           Otherwise, you are going to encourage more growth by pruning an
> > > > actively
> > > >           growing tree.  So it all depends on how soon you can get out to
> > > > prune, weather
> > > >           permitting.  With all this warm weather, if your trees have
> > > > already woken up, you
> > > >           may want to postpone your pruning, or at least limit it.  Cold
> > > > weather should not
> > > >           bother a freshly pruned tree.
> > > >
> > > >                       Sherwin Dubren in Illinois
> > > The trees are still pretty dormant, very slight bud enlargement at the
> > > very most. Actually, summer pruning would encourage less new growth, but
> > > I'm not really worried about any of that on the apples.
> > > I was more concerned about a sudden return to very cold weather causing
> > > extra die back at the pruning cuts. Also some concern about the pruning
> > > cuts being open longer since there may be no growth to start closing
> > > them until May.
> > >
> > > Steve
> > I'm going to add that the high today was 73, the record high for the day
> > (until now) was 63, and the record low for this date is 19 below zero.
> > Normal low is 15 above zero. It's going to feel like a real insult
> > when/if the temperatures return to normal.    Steve
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