To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] To bemuse you; one confused Liberty apple tree
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 01:20:40 +0000
south central WI (beautiful weekend, woods full of wild-geranium flowers!):
Haven't seen a tree & shrub spring bloom season this late for several/many
years. We have lilacs for Memorial Day, which hasn't happened in a while!
The sequence of species is about normal, and most of the apple varieties are
staying in flower a long time. I'm noticing some apples which normally bloom
in early group are late, but I think it has to do more with the stress of
drought last June & July followed by stress of August rain-rain-rain.
Another stress reaction was most apple trees put on a burst of fresh growth
from that late irrigation, and so the "scionwood", if it could be called
that, was poor quality!
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From: lonrom
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 17:02:39 -0700
To: nafex
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] To bemuse you; one confused Liberty apple tree
I'm seeing the same thing here in western Oregon, both on apples and on
Mayhaws and other hawthorns.
On May 24, 2008, at 4:49 PM, fuwa fuwa usagi wrote:
Well here in zone 4b/5a land 50 miles west from the Chicago lake front we
have had on very late spring. In fact I had seeded and my Kentucky blue
grass and it had started to grow when we had a couple on inches of snow.
Anyways, my trees are all confused now. My Liberty apple has always bloomed
over a few weeks but this year it is totally confused. Most of the entire
tree has bloomed and the blossoms are dropping but a few are still in the red
tip stage and at the same time I have some apple formation between 3/8ths and
1/2 inch.