Fruit Loss

[Alan W.]

27 here this morning. Im sure there is damage but it will take a little time to show.
My grapes look like they were fried.
My wife was insistent that we try to save her newest peach tree. I threw a tarp over it and secured around the trunk. Placed a 60 watt incandescent light inside it. Last two nights have not phased it.

 

[Peter 315]

A light snow last nite maybe more next week but still above freezing will see what happens in the next week......

 

[Paddy]

It was 27.6 F here in Southern IN. We have 3 Red Havens peach and 3 Cherries. I estimate a 750 blooms on each of the Peach trees. I'm hoping for a thinning. Some charts say at 28 F is 10% loss, 25 F is 90 % loss.

I can't any damage to the peaches but time will tell. We live on a 10,000 ac lake. I could feel a slight breeze coming up from the lake. Maybe the water heat helped?

 

[Diggin It]

Not seeing signs of damage to any of the fruit trees ... yet.

Many of the other trees and plants have been nipped though. Hackberry trees lost all leaves. They're junk trees though that I wish would die so I don't have to cut them down. They don't even make good firewood. Rose Of Sharon and Wysteria got nipped badly, but should recover. Iris look to have been affected, but not severely.

 

[BlackOps]

i got hurt badly this year. lost 100 potatoes and 2 vineyards of my wine grapes! so that means no wine this year! SUCKS!!!! looks all brned out adter such beautiful growth and luscious gree leaves and growtth and super nice clusters. This is the worst I have ever seen!

 

[ovrszd]

i got hurt badly this year. lost 100 potatoes and 2 vineyards of my wine grapes! so that means no wine this year! SUCKS!!!! looks all brned out adter such beautiful growth and luscious gree leaves and growtth and super nice clusters. This is the worst I have ever seen!

Sorry to hear that.

 

[Gary Fowler]

2 years ago, I had the same thing happen. Early bloom due to warm Feb. then hard freeze in March that killed all the blooms and any set fruit. Last year was a bumper crop though so it all equals out in the long run.

 

[ovrszd]

2 years ago, I had the same thing happen. Early bloom due to warm Feb. then hard freeze in March that killed all the blooms and any set fruit. Last year was a bumper crop though so it all equals out in the long run.

Yep. Last year our Pear tree was loaded. This year the blooms have been snowed on three times in the last week. Fate to yet be determined....

 

[Diggin It]

Goes back to an apparent seasonal shift I've noticed. Colder later into April, sometimes into May. Warmer into November, sometimes December.

 

[TnAndy]

We got in the low 30's that night, but it apparently did not hurt my apples, most of which are in full bloom. Looked them over yesterday and they don't seem hurt and my bees are working them.....so maybe apples this year. I did plant the small orchard (40 trees) on a sloping, southeast facing hill hoping late cold air would fall on down the valley away from the trees....which is apparently what happened in this instance.