animaux wrote:

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:43:25 -0600, kate wrote:

The leafing out is just beginning. 3 out of 5 years we'll get a frost to
kill all the blossoms so no peaches, but I would bring them back in if
the temperature dropped into the 30's. (I wasn't sure they would survive
inside - very little sun, but 2 plants became 14 so everyone got an aloe
plant for Christmas.)

You can help get some peaches by choosing trees which have longer chill hour
requirements. They will bloom later. In Texas where I live I have 'Dixieland' which
has 400 chill hours. Chill hours is the amount of hours the temperature is under 45
degrees.

Interesting. This is an old tree and the woodchuck usually gets the
peaches when there are some. 45 degrees doesn't affect the blooms on
this tree - it's the freeze that gets them. Am I misunderstanding?