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[Jay Cutts <orders@cuttsreviews.com>]

Jim,

Could it be that, if they have consistently cold weather in the spring, 
the cold is keeping them dormant longer so they don't flower until after 
the danger of frost?

Regards,

Jay

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On 12/26/2012 9:27 PM, Jim Fruth wrote:
>      A professor at the University of Alaska - Fairbanks told me that Pin
> Cherry trees, Prunus pennsylvanica L., that grow there were imported from
> the lower 48.  That area typically gets -40 F in Winter.  A former NAFEXer
> in that area grows them and claims that they bear fruit every year.
>      I have Pin Cherry trees, here in Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, where the
> temperature rarely dips that low and my trees bear fruit only once or twice
> in ten years.  So what is the possibility that Pin Cherry requires bitterly
> cold weather to bear fruit?  Anyone have an idea???
>
> Jim Fruth
>
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