I'm located just west of Minneapolis,MN
karl
- Original Message -
From: "Annette and Randy Bjorge Fruit Acres Farms"
To: "Apple-Crop"
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: RE: Experience with cold temps post bloom
Sorry but where are you at?
Thanks,
Annette
A new issue of Scaffolds Fruit Newsletter for the week of 5/10 has
been posted at:
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/scaffolds/2010/
and includes the following articles:
INSECTS
- Orchard Radar
- Early season insect control
- Insect trap catches around the state
DISEASES
- Ear
Sorry but where are you at?
Thanks,
Annette Bjorge
Coloma MI
- Original Message -
From: "Karl Townsend"
To: "Apple-Crop"
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: RE: Experience with cold temps post bloom
We got a bit colder at our site 26(bottom of hill) to 32.5(
John,
Our experience here in Colorado has been that 30 minutes at critical
temperatures begins to damage buds and fruit (fruit are not usually
killed by 30 min exposure because they have a greater mass, but we have
seen damage to tissues that can be expressed as sunken, leathery areas
-- usua
This link from MSU extension shows temp ranges and damage for various fruit
crops:
http://web1.msue.msu.edu/vanburen/crtmptxt.htm
-Original Message-
From: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net [mailto:apple-c...@virtualorchard.net] On
Behalf Of Jourdain Jean-Marc
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 9
We got a bit colder at our site 26(bottom of hill) to 32.5(hilltop) and
we're in late bloom. I'm guessing the trees I shouldn't have planted at the
bottom of the hill are likely smoked. Any thinning suggestions for the
middle of the orchard? Or ways to evaluate fruit set with frost?
Karl
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I don't think your temps were cool enough and especially the duration long
enough to cause damage. 28° is the temp for 10% kill post bloom but the
duration needs to be about three hours.
I wouldn't worry one bit. Growing apples in WA state we considered a frost like
yours to be a free thinning o
Hello
In our conditions such conditions (temps x duration) would only suggest to me
the probability of frost rings (russet rings at the stem surroundings) you
keep the fruit load more or less and you have a big job to do to carefully hand
thin.
We are facing cool temperatures too here, frui
Hi,
Had cold temps ranging from 27.5 to 29 in low spots in our orchard this
morning. We are a week to 10 days past PF, and fruit size is on ave 8-12 mm.
Does anyone have previous experience with cold temps at this stage that they
could share? Thoughts on approach to thinning, what fruit damag
