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Fruit tree madness
On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 13:14:19 -0700 (PDT), Hypatia Nachshon
wrote: Have posted in the past about two :"classic" variety fruit trees r+- 3-4 years old, planted same time. Blenheim Apricot doing well, Santa Rosa plum not. Lots of suckers which I remove -- Apricot has none --little and tired foliage. NOTE that in the past I had same two trees, same two varieties; yielded for years like gang busters till they had to be "retired". Even factoring in global warming; even gnashing teeth over TWO recent heat waves never before experienced at this season in my [censored] years in So.Calif coastal... ...with all this, I'm still thunderstruck to behold the "ailing" plum BLOSSOMING, when it's supposed to be shedding leaves (like its companion apricot), in prep. for "winter"! Now I don't know whether to fertilize it or not! Will post pic later today. HB All of the pitt fruit trees that i know of require some number of hours under 40 degrees F (5 degrees C) to set fruit properly. different varieties have different requirements, some as little as 200 hours to as much as 750 hours that i have seen. I suspect this may be (at least part of) what is bothering your trees. ?-) |
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Fruit tree madness
josephkk wrote:
Hypatia Nachshon wrote: Have posted in the past about two :"classic" variety fruit trees r+- 3-4 years old, planted same time. Blenheim Apricot doing well, Santa Rosa plum not. Lots of suckers which I remove -- Apricot has none --little and tired foliage. NOTE that in the past I had same two trees, same two varieties; yielded for years like gang busters till they had to be "retired". Even factoring in global warming; even gnashing teeth over TWO recent heat waves never before experienced at this season in my [censored] years in So.Calif coastal... ...with all this, I'm still thunderstruck to behold the "ailing" plum BLOSSOMING, when it's supposed to be shedding leaves (like its companion apricot), in prep. for "winter"! Now I don't know whether to fertilize it or not! Will post pic later today. HB All of the pitt fruit trees that i know of require some number of hours under 40 degrees F (5 degrees C) to set fruit properly. "pitt fruit"? You must mean *stone fruit*. |
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Fruit tree madness
On 10/29/2014 6:19 AM, josephkk wrote:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 13:14:19 -0700 (PDT), Hypatia Nachshon wrote: Have posted in the past about two :"classic" variety fruit trees r+- 3-4 years old, planted same time. Blenheim Apricot doing well, Santa Rosa plum not. Lots of suckers which I remove -- Apricot has none --little and tired foliage. NOTE that in the past I had same two trees, same two varieties; yielded for years like gang busters till they had to be "retired". Even factoring in global warming; even gnashing teeth over TWO recent heat waves never before experienced at this season in my [censored] years in So.Calif coastal... ...with all this, I'm still thunderstruck to behold the "ailing" plum BLOSSOMING, when it's supposed to be shedding leaves (like its companion apricot), in prep. for "winter"! Now I don't know whether to fertilize it or not! Will post pic later today. HB All of the pitt fruit trees that i know of require some number of hours under 40 degrees F (5 degrees C) to set fruit properly. different varieties have different requirements, some as little as 200 hours to as much as 750 hours that i have seen. I suspect this may be (at least part of) what is bothering your trees. ?-) I have seen 45F cited as the threshold for chill. That is the threshold given in Sunset's "Western Garden Book" and in Wikipedia's "Chilling requirement". -- David E. Ross Climate: California Mediterranean, see http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary |
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Fruit tree madness
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:26:12 -0400, Brooklyn1
wrote: josephkk wrote: Hypatia Nachshon wrote: Have posted in the past about two :"classic" variety fruit trees r+- 3-4 years old, planted same time. Blenheim Apricot doing well, Santa Rosa plum not. Lots of suckers which I remove -- Apricot has none --little and tired foliage. NOTE that in the past I had same two trees, same two varieties; yielded for years like gang busters till they had to be "retired". Even factoring in global warming; even gnashing teeth over TWO recent heat waves never before experienced at this season in my [censored] years in So.Calif coastal... ...with all this, I'm still thunderstruck to behold the "ailing" plum BLOSSOMING, when it's supposed to be shedding leaves (like its companion apricot), in prep. for "winter"! Now I don't know whether to fertilize it or not! Will post pic later today. HB All of the pitt fruit trees that i know of require some number of hours under 40 degrees F (5 degrees C) to set fruit properly. "pitt fruit"? You must mean *stone fruit*. Yep. the correct term would not come to mind. ?-) |
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