To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] apple blossom disease?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:37:49 -0800
Tanis,
It is possible that you had 'rat tail bloom'. This is a blooming after
the usual period of bloom, sometimes just a few weeks after regular
bloom and sometimes in the Fall.
You may not have noticed the blossoms in the Fall usually there are just
one or two small clusters.
Some people think it is a result of 'unusual weather'.
Derry
I just found, on some apple trees I've been looking at all winter, some dead
dried
flowers which never fell off since spring. They look just like a blossom
after
petal-fall, but dry & brown.