To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ernesto
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 20:25:22 -0400
Quoting W3cmp@aol.com:
> Hello all:
> Woke up this morning after a fitful night of sleep/listening
> to winds
> and found orchard askew. Pristine (with no apples) on CG-10 broke
> 2" diam.
> treated support stake at ground level and tree snapped off at
> graft-seems like
> CG-10 rootstock grafts are a little brittle; several semi dwarf on
> M7 blew
> over in clay-rich soil that turns to muck with winds and rain (one
> tree staked
> after Isabel went over for 2d time)-will try to pull them up and
> stake or
> restake them; also several dwarf apple trees full of fruit snapped
> 2" support
> stakes and went down but they appear not to have snapped any
> roots. Trees
> with 3" support stakes (all support stakes from Adams County
> nursery) seemed to
> weather storm OK. Lost no peach trees but fruit all over ground.
> Clay rich soil turns to muck and with wind from
> east-northeast rocking
> trees back and forth they finally go over. Also seems like M7
> trees in
> clay-rich soild do require staking!
> Chris Patterson SE Pa. near Lancaster
You got my rain! {laughing}
Ernesto blew through Florida and I didn't even get a full inch from
him.
.....Alan.
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