Late frost didnt hurt too much :)

[Football Hunter]

 

[Football Hunter]

Pears ,plums,covered in fruit.

 

[TS_13]

All of my pear trees show no fruit.... and some die back on chestnuts.... last freeze hurt me....

 

[Football Hunter]

All of my pear trees show no fruit.... and some die back on chestnuts.... last freeze hurt me....

My chestnuts looked a little weird too,guess it did hurt them

 

[PickettSFHunter]

That's awesome. I think I got about a 20% bloom loss, but that's actually a good thing.

 

[Football Hunter]

That's awesome. I think I got about a 20% bloom loss, but that's actually a good thing.

How so?

 

[PickettSFHunter]

If you have a lot of blooms the tree will get overloaded with fruit and you'll end up with a lot of broke limbs from the weight. If you don't hand thin or chemical thin, frost can thin for you.

 

[TS_13]

That's awesome. I think I got about a 20% bloom loss, but that's actually a good thing.

My farm is in DeKalb, and we got hammered. Did you not get it on the plateau?

 

[PickettSFHunter]

Yes we did get frost but our trees are farther behind so we can get to lower critical temps usually. My apples were mostly in tight cluster when trees in DeKalb Co.( I work there) were mostly in first pink to full pink with a few varieties even in first bloom. I need to stop by that orchard on the Caney Fork and the orchard in Silver Point to see what kind of fruit set they have.

 

[TS_13]

My Ark Blacks and some crabs looked ok, but all of my pears were zapped....

 

[Boone 58]

Interesting, my pear tree here in south Lawrence county are so heavy the limbs are almost breaking!!

 

[BSK]

I haven't had a chance to check trees in a lot of areas, but I've seen oaks in the Nashville area carrying a lot of acorns (mainly White Oaks and Sawtooth Oaks).

Anyone checked their red oak varieties yet?

 

[diamond hunter]

Ive got a giant red oak Im afraid to walk under ,scared a limb will break off its so full.

 

[BSK]

Saw a few red oaks in west-central TN yesterday that were loaded.

 

[bigtex]

Anyone checked their red oak varieties yet?

The last storm we had a week or so back blew some limbs off of a couple of red oaks and whites. They were all loaded with small acorns. Barring anything unforseen we should have the best mast production in many, many years in my neck of the woods.
Last year and the year before hard mast was non existant here on my farm.

 

[BSK]

Where is that bigtex (what part of the state)?

 

[bigtex]

Where is that bigtex (what part of the state)?

South East. McMinn Co.

 

[BSK]

Thanks