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05/31/08, 12:23 PM
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Signs of a hard winter
I was always told that the more fruit, seeds, etc. there were, the harder the winter would be. If that's true this year then we better get ready. I think every fruit tree on my property is loaded with fruit/blossoms. And that includes 3 apple trees that have never had a flower on before.
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05/31/08, 01:06 PM
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Here to. The muscadines & every thing else is LOADED!!! I havent seen this many black berries & things in years!
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05/31/08, 01:12 PM
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Ditto in Missouri. I'm already adding props to the peach and apple trees to keep from breaking the limbs.
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05/31/08, 01:16 PM
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I had forgotten about my peaches. They are loaded as well. Same with the gooseberries, blueberries, and strawberries. I need to make sure I have some clean canning jars. And I better start cutting firewood.
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05/31/08, 01:29 PM
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Actually good production means this past winter was good for the trees.
To cold or to warm of a winter will have an effect on the next summer crop.
Trees tell the past.
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05/31/08, 03:02 PM
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We don't have fruit trees here, but the pecan trees' branches are so heavy with foliage and the limbs so weak from the drought last year that thye are breaking all over the area. We lost a huge limb on one of ours and some of the others are almost touching the ground. When you drive around you see yards just littered with pecan limbs... I have never seen that before. Oh, and the blooming.. Holy Cow.. my yard looks like winter with all the little dangly things off the pecans!!!! same for the chestnut trees!!! I am hoping for banner crops of nuts if we don't have drought as bad as last year.
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05/31/08, 06:20 PM
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Well, is it the chicken or the egg?
I don't know about you, but we had many late frosts last year which killed all the fruit blossoms practically so no apples or peaches or cherries.
That said I did get grapes last year and this year it looks like tons!
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05/31/08, 06:46 PM
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This last year we only got 5 apples off the tree and very little black berryies or strawberries. And we had the longest coldest witnter in 20 years (as I was told).
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05/31/08, 06:53 PM
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I am starting to pick plums, figs, and the blueberries are just beginning to ripen.
No apples on the trees here at (New)DH's place, they did not get pruned last year.
Does anyone know if apples must be regularly pruned to have good production?
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06/01/08, 01:19 PM
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We have a few green gage plum trees. Last year we had 4 plums....This year, there are HUNDREDS!!  These are tiny, tiny trees - they are just loaded to the gills with plums! 
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06/03/08, 03:02 PM
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My apple trees, plum trees, strawberries and blueberries are loaded with blossoms. I am expecting the raspberries to start any day now!
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06/03/08, 04:07 PM
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Funny you posted this! I just said the same thing to my dh this morning while working at the farm.. Everything has more fruit/nuts/blooms etc as we have ever seen... Even wild berries and nuts are the same. QB
Rose, my apple trees are loaded, hundreds on each tree and none were pruned last yr. I would think it had to do more w/ a late freeze that damaged the blossoms...
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06/04/08, 08:44 AM
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Even the Bonnie Best trees I planted each have an apple! After last years' total fruit loss we are hoping for a good harvest...been so many storms here in MO we aren't counting our chickens before they hatch! But all our apple trees are needing propped already,cherry tree is loaded with fruit, grapes have many bunches and we've never picked more strawberries. We did loose our peaches/plums again to frost right when they were blooming. Even the blueberries that keep trying to die have berries this year! Guess it is a good thing DH already ordered our double log truck full of hollow logs! DEE who has never ever while living in MO had a better garden..looks like I'm back in my sandy loam MI garden instead of rocky haven
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06/04/08, 08:49 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RiverPines
Actually good production means this past winter was good for the trees.
To cold or to warm of a winter will have an effect on the next summer crop.
Trees tell the past.
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I agree. We've had more than enough water here, and everything is looking very good. Trees, bushes, perennials... My horseradish is taller than I've ever seen it!
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06/04/08, 08:51 AM
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In Remembrance
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As I recall there were a lot of late freezes last year that caused crop failure in many parts of the country. Often trees will produce extra the year following a bare one. Whatever the reason let's celebrate a wonderful harvest.
My apricot tree has just reached enough maturity to begin to really bear fruit. It isn't loaded as I think it simply doesn't get proper pollination so early in the spring. It is rare to see insects of any kind flying around it while in bloom. My neighbors blooms a little later and always has plenty of fruit set.
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06/04/08, 11:27 AM
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This has been a very cold, late Spring this year. I've been growing the same type of raspberry for 13 years. Every year, we can set our calendars on the first ripe berries on the 4th of July, give or take a few days. As of today, the flower buds are not even open yet! No way will berries be ready in 1 month! The vines are loaded with flower buds though, and the vines seem extra vigorous too, so it should be an excellent crop as long as we get some sun and dry weather at ripening time!
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06/04/08, 12:36 PM
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OMG do we have to even THINK about winter?
I will have to say our fruit trees/berries are NOT loaded with fruit. I'm bummed about it. Apparently the freeze we had a few days after bloom got the fruit trees, and the ice storm in December hurt out blackberries. They will have fruit, just not tons as in years past.
I'll keep my eyes peeled for woolly worms............. 
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