We had a very good bloom and excellent pollination. Based on that we bloom thinned with Amid on Macoun, early varieties, Gala and Honeycrisp. We petal fall thinned McIntosh, Cortland, and the early varieties. We are now at petal fall on the late bloomers and looking for a good weather window to thin those. We will wait and see if additional thinning will be required. The fruit appears to be growing rapidly so we are monitoring that closely as to thinning. We are missing some King flowers and some side bloom, particularly on McIntosh and Cortland. The bloom on Honeycrisp in particular and Macoun was very heavy. Dealing with the Honeycrisp crop may be problematic.
Art Kelly Kelly Orchards Acton, ME On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Jon Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, after many year of [email protected], the list > address has changed to [email protected]. 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 > [email protected] > http://virtualorchard.com/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop > > -- Art Kelly Kelly Orchards Acton, ME
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