We have reblooming here occassionally after a hard rain that is following a
long hard drought. I've seen it happening in late August twice in the past 7
years. I didn't notice it with apple trees though. It happened to the shurbs
like the forsynthia.
Rondi
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> From: Jim F <bonfire58_2000@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Re Todd Ravitch's re-blooming trees
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> I had fruit trees and berry bushes doing a second bloom too. This is
> Minnesota and I have never seen anything like it before. I blamed it on the
> freakish winter - we had no snow. Unlike Todd's unusually cool weather just
> prior to his re-bloom, no related mechanism was observed here. Of the other
> researchers with whom I rub elbows, we all dismissed it as something
> unexplainable. Does anyone have an explanation?
>
> Jim Fruth
> Pequot Lakes, MN