RE: Apple-Crop: Apple Harvest

2007-09-14 Thread Jourdain Jean-Marc
De : Deborah I. Breth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 14 septembre 2007 12:56 À : Apple-Crop Objet : RE: Apple-Crop: Apple Harvest Cornell Has a bulletin - 221- called Predicting Harvest Date Windows for Apples, by G.D. Blanpied and Kenneth J. Silsby. They used 30 days after fu

RE: Apple-Crop: Apple Harvest

2007-09-14 Thread Deborah I. Breth
Cornell Has a bulletin - 221- called Predicting Harvest Date Windows for Apples, by G.D. Blanpied and Kenneth J. Silsby. They used 30 days after full bloom and a complicated formula that is adjusted for New York fruit regions. It is not an exact prediction but gets you in the ballpark to star

RE: Apple-Crop: Apple Harvest

2007-09-13 Thread Con.Traas
of the new formula you suggest for estimating harvest time. Con From: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jourdain Jean-Marc Sent: 13 September 2007 15:53 To: Apple-Crop Subject: RE: Apple-Crop: Apple Harvest Hi from

RE: Apple-Crop: Apple Harvest

2007-09-13 Thread Jourdain Jean-Marc
Hi from South West of France I could have written almost exactly the same words for our situation. Amazing precocity here (William's Bartlett harvested end of July... never seen). Some more points : For what concerns colour, we have this year very beautiful reds, strains of Gala wonderful,

Re: Apple-Crop: Apple Harvest

2007-09-13 Thread edwdollx2
Suncrisp are almost ready.? Chris Doll Edwardsville, Il -Original Message- From: Bill Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Apple-Crop Sent: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 6:48 am Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: Apple Harvest We seem to be way ahead of schedule in northern Illinois as well. Similar sto

Re: Apple-Crop: Apple Harvest

2007-09-13 Thread dmnorton
mber 13, 2007 6:48 AM Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: Apple Harvest We seem to be way ahead of schedule in northern Illinois as well. Similar story, an early start, warm but not especially hot, then very wet, particularly through August. I can't remember another season when the crops matured

Re: Apple-Crop: Apple Harvest

2007-09-13 Thread Bill Shoemaker
We seem to be way ahead of schedule in northern Illinois as well. Similar story, an early start, warm but not especially hot, then very wet, particularly through August. I can't remember another season when the crops matured so early, though I remember hotter seasons. Anyone else notice this and