We hit 15 degrees last Saturday morning and may have gotten some damage. We were at silver tip then on apples and swollen bud on peaches. Cool weather, wet weather since has slowed development.
Art Kelly Kelly Orchards Acton, Me ----- Original Message ----- From: Fleming, William To: Apple-Crop Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:20 PM Subject: RE: Apple-Crop: degree days and apple bloom prediction I'm jealous, well sort of. Fully dormant here at 4000 ft Montana. Skiff of snow last night with a low of 24°, high today in the 40s. Forecast is for lows in the teens. Plenty of time left here for pruning. Bill Fleming Montana State University Western Ag Research Center 580 Quast Ln Corvallis, MT 59828 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net [mailto:apple-c...@virtualorchard.net] On Behalf Of Arthur Kelly Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:19 AM To: Apple-Crop Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: degree days and apple bloom prediction Acton, Maine Mar. 31, 2010 McIntosh silver tip Peaches swollen bud Temps in the 70's for Fri and Sat Copper spray on Easter ? This is fun Art Kelly Kelly Orchards On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:18 AM, William Sharp <bsharp1...@yahoo.com> wrote: I am In the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and we are about 1/2" green tip (or a little further) on Red Delicious. It is supposed to be quite warm the next couple of days and I am trying to predict when apple bloom may be i.e. will it be within the next week. Does anyone have info on using DD to predict bloom? We are not yet at bloom on peaches, but I expect it to start tommorrow... Bill Sharp
