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From: Kushad, Mosbah M
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 7:23 AM
To: Apple-crop discussion list ; Jon Clements
Subject: Re: [apple-crop] Apple Bloom and Crop Potential
Drought can be devastating, especially to honeycrisp on some rootstocks. I
am not in my office to look up the data, but the graft union of Honeycrisp
grafted to some of the Geneva rootstocks and Malling 26 Emla dried up and
split suggesting that the union is not very strong. The trees are about
five years old trained to the tall spindle tied to four wires. The wires
did little to prevent the snapping of the graft union.
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Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 3:09 PM
To: Jon Clements; Apple-crop discussion list
Subject: Re: [apple-crop] Apple Bloom and Crop Potential
Nikki,
I don't have any direct experience with drought on apples but I'm guessing
the problems will be huge. I lived in California for over 20 years and 3
irrigations in California during the summer is almost not enough for many
"drought tolerant" trees. I will be very interested in knowing how it all
works out for you. Best of luck.
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Jon Clements
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You forgot to mention how A-Maze-'N-Apples is doing?
http://www.goodfruit.com/a-mazing-new-technology/
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:31 PM,
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
After a devastating 2012 when most of the northern Illinois growers lost
most of their crop as the result of the extremely warm March and early bloom
that was destroyed by late frost, we had a bumper crop in 2013. We lost 70%
of our crop in 2012! Despite thinning by hand, the trees over produced so
much that we had the bumper crop even after thinning. Since we irrigate, we
have not been bothered much by drought situations, but the trees are still
under tremendous stress due to all the weather extremes in the past two
years.
Anticipating thinner bloom this spring, we also have a much cooler spring.
Green tip started around the 15th of April for us and we did not see pink
until the first week of May. Zestar, Liberty Snowsweet and Pristine are now
bloom. Some trees are very thin on bloom, and we still have others at tight
cluster. Right now we have varieties from tight cluster to pink to bloom,
which we generally have never seen. Normally we are at pink and bloom in
all four orchards at the same time We are anticipating a very long bloom
period since our daytime highs have been in the high 40's to low 50's since
bloom began on May 10/11. We have also received over 4" of rain since that
time as well!
The crop load is very sporadic in the trees that are now in bloom and we
anticipated a light load, but never anticipated such a stretched out spring.
We are still not sure what the overall crop load will be like until we get
some warmer weather and see how much fruit sets. We had lows of 35 and 38
Thursday and Friday night and the bees have just begun to fly. The
predicted temperatures for the coming week should bring out the rest of
bloom and the bees, with highs predicted in the mid 60's and lower 70's. We
have had 273 DD since March 30 and only 274 since January 1. We should have
about 5% +/- codling moth flight, but none trapped so far. We have only
seen only 24 DD since May 12 and are anticipating a long bloom period. On
the bright side, Zestar has a heavy crop load, just as it did last season
and will have to be heavily thinned. Pristine is sporadic as is Liberty,
but Snowsweet looks very balanced. Honeycrisp is very, very sporadic, as
expected. This season and next we will have to do everything we can to
balance the crop load for 2016. That is if the weather cooperates!!
We have had some winter injury to tree trunks, but nothing compared to the
vole damage! We had so much snow cover this past winter we could not get
back out into the orchards to put out more bait and repellent. The damage
is not as bad as it could have been, but still the worst we have ever seen.
Tree loss is at a minimum, which is the good news! We did lose most of our
peach trees planted in 2013.....they simply froze in our-10 to -26 degree
temps for most of the winter!
Such is life as an apple grower!
Dennis Norton
IPM Specialist/Certified Nurseryman
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
15908 Hebron Rd.
Harvard, IL 60033-9357
Office (815) 648-4467
Mobile (815) 228-2174<tel:%28815%29%20228-2174>
Fax (609) 228-2174<tel:%28609%29%20228-2174>
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From: Win Cowgill<mailto:[email protected]>
To: Apple-crop discussion list<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 11:58 AM
Subject: [apple-crop] Apple Bloom and Crop Potential
Hello Apple Croppers-
This winter was a tough one for growers in New England, New York and the Mid
Atlantic (New Jersey).
I am wondering what the apple crop potential is in your states, provinces,
countries this season?
How was your bloom? Good pollination? Winter injury to trees.
I know growers in Virginia had winter injury to apple tree trunks.
Massachusetts and Vermont light on bloom? How did Western New York fair?
How did my friends in Quebec make out?
Look foreword to your responses.
Best
Win
Win Cowgill
Apple-Crop Co-Founder
Editor Horticultural News
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New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
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