Take heart, Art - snowball bloom thin more easily due to natural competition
between blooms - Golden Delicious is a problem as are varieties like Earligold
and Liberty and to a lesser extent Gala and some of the oddballs -
We had a snowball bloom and 80* temperatures during bloom (our full
Arthur,
I have a small Orchard in NE Pa. and the trees are loaded with Blossoms.
The flowers opened starting Monday PM and full open by mid-day Tuesday.
Going to be a very heavy set given the dry weather forecast and nice 70 d
days.
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Arthur Kelly
is just busy counting his profit from last year.
Mosbah Kushad, University of Illinois
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The update from Illinois is relatively good.. We also
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There were lots of native pollinators working the plum trees when they were
in bloom.
Art Kelly
Kelly Orchards
Acton, ME
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Jon:
I have been asking myself question like those you have mentioned.
Snowball and nearly
Mostly heavy, snowball bloom here in Massachusetts after modest crop last
year. Not sure I have ever seen such a heavy bloom across the board. Temps.
in mid to upper 80's preceding and during bloom really moved things along,
bee activity was modest to good. There was so much bloom all at once bee
Jon:
I have been asking myself question like those you have mentioned.
Snowball and nearly synchronous bloom is what I have on most varieties
here also; and with uncommonly warm temperatures I expected to see a lot of
eager honeybees in the trees these past several
