Fruit Loss

[Alan W.]

23 degrees here this morn. Had small peaches already on the trees and the apples were in full bloom. Plan to go out and check for damage this afternoon.
Anyone else having this luck.

 

[oosik]

We loose a majority of our apples about two out of five years. Apples will be in full bloom and we get a killing frost. Major producers here in Ea WA will have LARGE fans mounted on towers in their orchards.

 

[Ford850]

We had 23 here too, and supposed to be similar tonight. Our peaches are at about half to three quarter bloom stage, so I'll be surprised if we get any again this year. Last year we had zero peaches, losing all blooms at about this same stage. Very disappointing to see after this long cold spring, we really like to have that normal burst of life when these things start to fruit.

 

[ovrszd]

Our trees have just started blooming. Here was my view this morning. Also have some early corn planted but it's not sprouted above ground yet so everyone is hoping it'll survive. Our weather forcast shows us freezing every night for the next three. Calling for 3-5" of snow tomorrow but I'm hoping they miss that one.

 

[ovrszd]

We had 23 here too, and supposed to be similar tonight. Our peaches are at about half to three quarter bloom stage, so I'll be surprised if we get any again this year. Last year we had zero peaches, losing all blooms at about this same stage. Very disappointing to see after this long cold spring, we really like to have that normal burst of life when these things start to fruit.

We got our first snow 28 October. Here we are 170 days later with another snow. I've lost track, but am thinking somewhere around 20 snows. None big. A lot of 1-3".

 

[fried1765]

We got our first snow 28 October. Here we are 170 days later with another snow. I've lost track, but am thinking somewhere around 20 snows. None big. A lot of 1-3".

No snow at all here this Winter in the Sarasota area!
None last winter either!
Lime tree has lots of little green fruit.

 

[the old grind]

A brief snow shower today 4-15-2020 in MI here at the 43rd parallel. It's the 5th or 6th time this month.

Morning frost on car windows more mornings than not in the last two weeks. April weather in March gives way to March weather in April.

My daffodils by the porch have bloomed since the weekend. They're barely hanging in there today.

 

[Peter 315]

One year we had a late frost and the trees had buds no apples that year..........

 

[Alan W.]

The peaches seemed to have escaped damage. Don’t know how. Some of the apple blossoms have darkened some. The crepe myrtles took it hard. Blueberries were unscathed.
We have some more cold nights ahead, time will tell.

 

[Peter 315]

I'm getting snow or rain this week hope trees do ok ...........

 

[ovrszd]

Some weather stations are now saying 6-8" snow tomorrow and tomorrow night. Northern Tier of Missouri. What the ????

 

[Diggin It]

KCMO's showing it for the northern few counties up around Ioway.

Weather Story

 

[ovrszd]

That would be me...….

 

[Gary Fowler]

It got down to 33 this morning but no worry about my apple tree. A straight line wind storm hit Sunday with 80-100 MPH winds blew it down along with a nectarine and a plum tree. Also took out some pine trees and a large oak. Next door it took out several trees, all pine and oak that blocked the road for several hours till road crew got Front End loader out to clear the debris.
Just looked at the back fence and had 3 pine trees across it and smashed a gate.

All this is negligible compared to all the power lines it took out. We are still running on generator power since the storm came thru. Might be Friday before we get power according to text messages which no one believes anymore since Entergy Power sent out so many with wrong info.

 

[Diggin It]

^^ That would be this:

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/423934-moderate-risk-severe-weather-sunday.html

 

[bunyip]

Some vineyards here get a savage frost and they light a series of fires when the temperature hits a certain level, I don't recall what it is, the smoke hits the inversion and spreads flat across the vines and stops the frost from dropping.
This was a common practice in Europe.

 

[Diggin It]

Smudge pots used to be common. Might still be.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Dad used to burn brush piles in the orchard.

 

[bunyip]

I recall reading that the Russians use MIG jet engines to circulate some warm air through the orchards, of course our cold is not like your cold and we complain bitterly when it hits -2C, really cold is -5C but doesn't last long.

 

[Ford850]

23 here again. I'll keep my hopes up, but it will be a few weeks until we know the extent of the peach damage. Thinking more about last year, I'm pretty sure we had a couple days of mid teens while they were in bloom.