What Usha di has written is also practised here in Germany, if they
forecast sudden temperature fall after the trees start fruiting. Farmers
sprinkle water till the fruits, in fact the buds, are covered totally
with ice.
A fruiting tree with ripe fruits and no leaves look somewaht strange.
Nalini
Am 17.06.2011 10:26, schrieb ushadi Micromini:
Dear Marriane....
is that all you have to say for this...?
do you have any more information?
please tell us
Usha di
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Marianne de Nazareth
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks for all the insights and first hand experiences!
regds,
Marianne
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Vijayasankar
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I have seen (also touched and experienced:) this kind of ice
formation on Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) trees, here in
oxford, mississippi, during last winter, when the trees were
bearing ripe fruits.
Regards
Vijayasankar Raman
National Center for Natural Products Research
University of Mississippi
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Ushadi micromini
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Dear all:
I think we are wowing a forwarded (many times over) set of
pictures...
seems it has been making rounds... original postor may have
absconded...
first, after the initial wow, I thought could this be a hoax?
ANS: do not know...
Second: Could these icicles be man made?
ANS... yes could be...
similar to the scenario in FLORIA and Georgia...
where citrus is grown... if in december the forecast is
for below
freezing to freezing temperature in the nite... then
farmers are
advised ( and they do it ) to sprinkle enough water on the
trees so
that the water would freeze around (completely ) the
oranges and that
frozen water at 0 degrees C would act as a thermal blanket
of sorts...
and protect the fruits and trees from the merciless below
freezing
temperatures...
something like that may have happened here...
BUT I /we must not get taken in by forwarded and re-forwarded
messages from now on...
Usha di
==========
my question to Marrianne: do you know the people who
forwarded these
to you, are they hoaxters or reliable folks?
or do they know who sent these to them in the first place?
==========
On Jun 16, 5:38 pm, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Dear Marianne
> Were they really cherries?. Cherries won't stay on the
tree till leaf fall,
> ornamental apple would. A freak snow with tree having
cherries won't make
> leaves disappear. Interesting to investigate.
>
> --
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> Retired Associate Professor
> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
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> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Marianne de Nazareth <
>
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
> > To tell you the truth I thought you experts could
throw some light for me
> > because it was rather sad to see the trees and their
cherries encased in
> > ice. Could it have been a freak snow fall?
>
> > Marianne
>
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Gurcharan Singh
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:
>
> >> Dear Marianne
>
> >> The photographs are wonderful but I am confused about
the situation. I
> >> have seen such scenes in winter in Kashmir when there
is a fresh snowfall
> >> and extreme chill in the night keeps snow sticking to
branches. That part is
> >> expected, and icicles also may be seen when thawing
starts and ice (melted
> >> snow subsequently frozen) starts dripping. But
strangely the ground is
> >> completely without any snow, and most significant I
have never seen cherries
> >> persisting on tree when the leaves have shed. I have
seen rather ornamental
> >> Malus species in California persisting fruits when
leaves are about to fall,
> >> but then California does not have have long snow
filled winter season.
> >> Perhaps you can throw some light on this spectacular
sight.
>
> >> --
> >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh
> >> Retired Associate Professor
> >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
> >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
> >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089
> >>http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
<http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/>
>
> >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Ushadi micromini <
> >> [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> >>> WONDERFUL!!!!
>
> >>> Usha di....
>
> >>> On Jun 15, 3:45 pm, Marianne de Nazareth
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