Here in Western Montana we had a few weeks of above average temps and the bloom on our trees was huge. I'm new at apples and didn't realize how much the trees were going to be over loaded with fruitlets. Now I have to thin like crazy. The third leaf Honeycrisp trees have about 200 apples per tree, some may have a lot more than that. After all of this fruit set, the weather turned cooler than average for a about 2-3 weeks, and the fruitlets are about 10mm. Tomorrow is going to be in the mid 70's with several 80 degrees days following, so I'm spraying Sevin+Maxcel hoping to knock-off about 80% of these apples. Anyone with ideas would be appreciated...
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Jon Clements <jon.cleme...@umass.edu> wrote: > Hi everyone, after many year of apple-c...@virtualorchard.net, the list > address has changed to apple-crop@virtualorchard.com. Please use the > latter address when posting to apple-crop from hereon out. > > That being said, anyone care to comment on the crop conditions out there? > Here in Massachusetts, after a long spring, with considerable freeze damage > to apple buds in early April, we are finally seeing what is left. It varies > from orchard to orchard, but on average we are probably looking at 75-80% > of an average crop of just over 1 million bushels. Could be better, could > be worse. Still a long way to go though... > > -- > Jon Clements > aka 'Mr Honeycrisp' > UMass Cold Spring Orchard > 393 Sabin St. > Belchertown, MA 01007 > 413-478-7219 > umassfruit.com > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.com > http://virtualorchard.com/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop > >
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