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Post by TusseyMtman on May 19, 2013 9:44:33 GMT -5
Pretty bad around here in any hollow/low spot. I am hoping some of the later flowering oaks will still be able to produce. It certainly will not be a banner year for the white oak family(never is, it seems) and next year will be bad for the red oaks. Many of the oak trees even got their leaves burned off. It is a shame, because the white and chestnut oaks had the heaviest crop of catkins I have seen in a while.
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Post by Dutch on May 19, 2013 18:25:01 GMT -5
Was in Tioga this weekend. Various species of trees are brown from the frost, others, no effect.
Butternuts around camp, ALL brown, same with sycamore.
My chinese chestnuts are brown.
I have never seen anything like it.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2013 18:29:12 GMT -5
pear tree where I hunt turkeys has fruit starting so that wasn't affected.
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Post by TusseyMtman on May 19, 2013 18:31:00 GMT -5
I made it out some more this afternoon and walked around a recent logging operation. What oak saplings are there got totally froze, as in it looked like they got sprayed with Diquat. The red maple, cherry, and sassafras were unharmed. Another blow for the dire oak situation. I know they will grow back. But, the other trees now have an even bigger headstart.
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Post by Bill on May 19, 2013 20:43:24 GMT -5
Unbelievably my pear trees are going to have a nice crop despite it going down into the twenties while they were in bloom. There have been years when it's frosted around 30 degrees and it was a complete loss. Go figure.
Some of the tulip poplars around here have some damaged leaves but that's about it as far as the trees go. We'll see about the acorn crop, I'm guessing that they'll be ok in this area.
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Post by wentzler on May 21, 2013 4:46:18 GMT -5
The white oak here had not bloomed when we had the frost. It has now, and the bloom was pretty nice this year. One more full moon yet..and we 'should' be home free. The massive dip in the Jet Stream right now has me watching as it seems to be moving eastward in a time frame that may allow one more Canadian cold front to slip south in conjunction with that shift in the Jet Stream and the full moon. After that such fronts following the JS should just bring us violent T-storms, hail, high winds, and snow flurries.  |
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Post by bushmaster on May 21, 2013 7:30:41 GMT -5
Don't be surprised if we have some more frost freeze this weekend. Calling for mid 30's at night.
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Post by fleroo on May 21, 2013 8:35:31 GMT -5
Looks like I made out ok regarding fruit trees in Eastern Wash. Co. A young Peach tree has a fair amount of peaches. I vigorously pruned a 12 year old dwarf apple tree in February, and it is simply loaded with Apples. I never prune hardy enough, and the Apple never really produced heavy crops. I took a chainsaw basically straight across it and gave it quite a scalp. Now I know why they say when you prune, if you think you pruned enough.... keep pruning.  Pears looking great, and cherries loaded. I think what saved me is that the blossoms started to set fruit already. I'm sure we are a good 10-14 days ahead of places like Northcentral PA. |
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Post by wentzler on May 21, 2013 16:44:22 GMT -5
Finally made it to Sullivan county today..couple ridges looked a little 'lacking of leaf' as I approached them. Got closer and it's ALL the hickory trees. They got 'smoked' ! In places I saw nearly a foot of burn back. Was the east side of the ridges, first sun. Squirrels will be on the other side next fall |
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Post by bigredneck on May 21, 2013 21:58:13 GMT -5
Looks like I may get a few peaches after all, peaches forming same with the pears and apples. Don't look like the frost got as much fruit as I first thought. Grapes just starting to leaf out.
A few of the shrubs in the yard got burnt, saves me trimming as Ma Nature did the job for me ;D
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