I have used the blower and pollen on cherries and apples every year for
many years now. I have never done, however, a specific replicated trial.
(Too much work and variability.) I operate on the assumption it can't hurt,
and have never noticed a problem with uniformity. But I am no expert on the
su
Obviously a different weather situation here in Georgia, but native
pollinators were more numerous this year during bloom of stone fruit
and earlier apple bloom, with temps in upper 70's and few days over
80. More bumblebees than last year and the usual contingent of what I
think are leaf-cutte
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 7:41 AM
To: jon.cleme...@umass.edu
Cc: Apple-crop discussion list
Subject: Re: [apple-crop] native pollinators
Jon:
Thank you for that background. The blower is clearly faster than
dabbing individual flowers. My dabbing trials, apple, were made primari
Jon:
Thank you for that background. The blower is clearly faster than
dabbing individual flowers. My dabbing trials, apple, were made primarily to
produce uniform fruit
set. Bees were excluded, physically, as I was not aware of any effective
repellents; still am not.
David
On May 3,
No, but it is only for a few moments. Otherwise, it is quite pretty now
with stone fruit in full bloom, apples a few days away, and an
unprecedented stretch of 100% blue sky weather predicted for several days
following a week of it already. Sorry about that for those folks in central
Iowa, SE Minn
Jon, I don't think your leaf blower improves the ambiance of the idyllic
orchard in bloom
D
On May 2, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Jon Clements wrote:
> Interesting, I was just observing full bloom sweet cherry yesterday afternoon
> and made a mental note that native bee/pollinator activity seemed t
After making the observation that native pollinator numbers were greatly
reduced, I made an immediate assumption that it was tied to the adverse growing
season last year - an early start (pollinators were plentiful and at normal
levels during bloom last March, full bloom is going to be at least
urice tougas
Subject: Re: [apple-crop] native pollinators
To: "Apple-crop discussion list"
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013, 7:12 PM
Yup, same thing here. I suspect that natural population dynamics are taking
it's usual course. As a kid living on Greenwich Bay in Rhode Island I remember
Jon:
Is there more to say of the leaf-blower alternative? Is this a
first-time trial? Problems?
It looks appears to have advantages over the stilts and dabbing
trials I ran some years ago, though uniformity of set is likely not so good.
David K
Interesting, I was just observing full bloom sweet cherry yesterday
afternoon and made a mental note that native bee/pollinator activity seemed
to be light. There are no honeybees brought into the orchard yet, we wait
for apples. Normally, they (the native pollinators) are really swarming the
sweet
Yup, same thing here. I suspect that natural population dynamics are taking
it's usual course. As a kid living on Greenwich Bay in Rhode Island I
remember years when the eels were so thick you dared not swim. Same for
jellyfish. Next ten years, none. One year clams in such abundance that you
hardly
I'm surprised. In my suburban-boston backyard, I have seen more bumblebees and
other pollinators than in recent years. Maybe that's just because one of my
neighbors sprayed less this year, or some similar very local effect. But just
this weekend I was pleased by the number and variety of pollina
In the Hudson Valley of NY we are also finding very few native pollinators
on dandelions as of late morning into the mid-afternoon.
Carpenter bees are plentiful but few honeybees or orchard bees.
By the end of the day we will be at 50% bloom on Ginger Gold with 1st
bloom observed only yesterday.
Bl
indeed - the dandelions are empty - few bumblebees -
I have a half dozen hives of honeybees on the property, managed by mediocre bee
keeper, but they are flying - I have about 20 acres of tree fruit and have
always considered the native pollinators to be adequate to the job, this year
may be d
David:
I forgot where you are located. Here in Harvard, MA, we have just been
commenting on the lack of wild bees as we are about to open on McIntosh.
There also are less bumble bees visible .
Frank Carlson
Franklyn W. Carlson, Pres.
Carlson Orchards, Inc.
115 Oak Hill Road
P.O.Box 359
Harvard, M
15 matches
Mail list logo
