Jon:
Is there more to say of the leaf-blower alternative? Is this a
first-time trial? Problems?
It looks appears to have advantages over the stilts and dabbing
trials I ran some years ago, though uniformity of set is likely not so good.
David Kollas
Kollas Orchard, Tolland, CT
On May 2, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Jon Clements wrote:
> Interesting, I was just observing full bloom sweet cherry yesterday afternoon
> and made a mental note that native bee/pollinator activity seemed to be
> light. There are no honeybees brought into the orchard yet, we wait for
> apples. Normally, they (the native pollinators) are really swarming the sweet
> cherries because they are the only thing in bloom at the time. Today activity
> seemed lacking again. It's been very dry here, is there any possibility there
> is a lack of nectar? That might not explain David's observation in Indiana
> though? Seems to be a theme here, but maybe Mo is right -- just plain natural
> (i.e. chaotic) population swings?
>
> Anyway, who needs bees? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsl7sILSGoU
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:01 AM, David Doud <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another casualty of last year's freak weather is the population of native
> pollinators - my asian pears entered full bloom over the last 48 hours -
> other years they are surrounded by a cloud of several species of solitary
> pollinators, this year that activity is roughly 10% of what I am accustomed
> to observing -
>
> The first apple bloom opened yesterday - 72 hours ago at tight cluster I
> considered the amount of bloom as 'full' but not particularly remarkable, now
> bloom has seemingly spontaneously generated to an amount that I cannot
> remember observing in the past - it's going to be spectacular, but has upped
> my anxiety about the potential 'big crop of little green apples' - hope
> thinners are effective....
>
>
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>
> David Doud
> grower IN
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