Re: [apple-crop] crop prospects

2015-05-13 Thread Jon Clements
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

Re: [apple-crop] crop prospects

2015-05-13 Thread David Kollas
Jon: I have been asking myself question like those you have mentioned. Snowball and nearly synchronous bloom is what I have on most varieties here also; and with uncommonly warm temperatures I expected to see a lot of eager honeybees in the trees these past several