Can you water/wet them ? Not sure if the blossoms can handle it. Some of the apple farmers here get creative,also a couple brush fires upwind,sometimes it is only a couple degrees that can make a difference
My trees are right next to a canal that has some water in it. The heat from the water can change things if the breeze is right. It remains to be seen if that happened this time. We have more frost forecast for tonight but not nearly as cold as last night.
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It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
5 F, here this morning! Glad I didn’t plant the tomatoes yet! Nothing even trying to bloom yet, and the bees are getting restless! memtb
memtb I'm across the basin from you. We had -1 below this morning [/quote]
Which direction.....across the basin? 18 miles down the road in Thermopolis, they were in negative numbers. We’re usually several degrees cooler than they are! memtb
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Same guy that put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?
Just a wild ass guess.
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Trying to snow today. The fruit trees are sitting there shivering hardly any leaf out let alone flower buds so I got that goin for me
Not a leaf here yet. Last two weeks we've had two nights above freezing I think, past two were down to 17F by sunrise. Not conducive to fruit trees blooming.
I do hope these apple grafts take. Local ag folks had a workshop last month. Trying to save some old varieties around here. If the tree is still living 80 years on, it might just be suited for our climate. They got commercial rootstock and local folks donated scions for the grafts.
It looks like this one might take, as the buds look to be popping out of the grafting tape: The other one I'm holding out hope for, seems like it might just be a slower variety.
They get taken inside the well house at night, and when cover the greenhouse frame this week or next they'll start spending their nights out there.
Won't go in the ground until next year, with a good screen around them to keep the deer and bunnies away. Might screen the bottom of the hole as I lost a cherry tree to gophers the first year I planted it.
gardening up here is never not interesting. My sister in SoCal already has 1' tall tomato plants going. My asparagus hasn't even come up yet.
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Not my early tree. It's a Sweetheart that has edible seeds. Laetrile is the stuff that the body converts into cyanide and these don't have it. My later tree does. The seeds on this one have the appearance and taste of almonds.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
We have a small orchard only 100 trees presently but cut our Apricots down years ago..The Moorpark variety seemed most frost hardy for us here in Eastern Ne but like all bloom very early..Our log book since early 80's shows a crop one out three years and that's generous certainly wasn't worth the upkeep..
You better be afraid of a ghost!!
"Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops
Nothing even trying to bloom yet, and the bees are getting restless! memtb [/quote]
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