Mostly heavy, snowball bloom here in Massachusetts after modest crop last year. Not sure I have ever seen such a heavy bloom across the board. Temps. in mid to upper 80's preceding and during bloom really moved things along, bee activity was modest to good. There was so much bloom all at once bee activity might have been diluted? Very dry -- does that affect the attractiveness of bloom to bees? Less nectar production? Cold front moved through and now windy and much cooler, scattered frost possible in cold pockets. We're expecting good set and the need to thin aggressively. Heat raised the fire blight danger level, however, little wetting during bloom except for some showers here and there and dew. Will see how that plays out, lots of strep applied after last year. Only one apple scab infection period since April 21 (green tip), clean orchards could have delayed any fungicide application since then until the next rain, but that one will be a doozy probably. Somebody send us a little rain. Every year is so different...
Jon On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Arthur Kelly <kellyorcha...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know about the rest of you but if we get any kind of pollination > weather the crop will be very heavy and difficult to thin. The potential > bloom at this point is scary. We are at pink except for cracking some king > flowers on Zestar, Paulared, Gingergold etc. > > -- > Art Kelly > Kelly Orchards > Acton, ME > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.net > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop > > -- Jon Clements aka 'Mr Honeycrisp' UMass Cold Spring Orchard 393 Sabin St. Belchertown, MA 01007 413-478-7219 umassfruit.com
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