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Post by JanetM on Feb 17, 2010 9:25:57 GMT -5
Hi! Can anyone tell me what happened to the fruit on my neighbors fruit trees last year? Our neighbor, who shares his fruit trees with us (we live in a woods thus no place to grow stuff) as we are all very good friends. It was wet year for us and everything in the garden was not good. I noticed the fruit trees (peaches and apple) had no fruit on them at all, all bare. I am trying to understand this. Was it due to the wet weather?
I live in southern Ind., close to Alan (I think)
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Post by mjc on Feb 17, 2010 9:56:14 GMT -5
What happened to my trees was a very late frost...it wiped out everything, except for a couple of apples here or there. This was on top of all the cool, wet weather I had.
A hard frost, either during blooming or after the fruit is set, coupled with wet weather and low pollination (due to the inactivity of pollinators during wet weather) will reduce the yield to nothing. Peaches, apricots and nectarines are particularly susceptible to late frosts. Apples are also susceptible to late frost and low pollination due to wet weather.
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Post by ceara on Feb 17, 2010 10:48:57 GMT -5
Last year in our area, no apple or wild crabapple bloomed. Something must have happened to prevent it. Even the lowbush blueberries barely cropped. 2009 was a very disappointing year for fruit.
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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 17, 2010 11:47:54 GMT -5
It wasn't just me then. Oh good / bad.
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Post by plantsnobin on Feb 17, 2010 12:05:34 GMT -5
Janet, most likely it was the fact that we had so much rain during bloom time, pollinators weren't out flying when they normally would have been. This year should be better hopefully. Though we can't really hold our breath for that. Good reasons to can when things are productive.
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Post by JanetM on Feb 17, 2010 13:20:00 GMT -5
Well, that does reconfirm my own ideas about it. I have noticed this year's winter is harsh too. I hope global warming or whatever it is, does not do this each year. My husband and I went in half with our neighbor with the garden but we lost our money. We got very little out of it. I do enjoy the fruit and I can everything I can get my hands on becasue it just goes to waste and I hate to see waste. Last year was so disapointing for me. So I got my sights on this year. The neighbor's garden is in a wet area so we don't plant much there. Thanks all, Janet
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Post by cornishwoman on Feb 17, 2010 14:18:04 GMT -5
Yes here in T.N. it was an unusually wet spring that seemed to drift into early summer,if I remember rightly it stopped around late May.I only got a bucket or 2 of pears from 2 pear trees,maybe a bucket of crab apples from one tree,no blackberry's from the wild ones didn't notice any flowers on them last year either,very poor for fruit last year.Year before that most of the local orchards near me had server frost damage from the April freeze.
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