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Not likely here. Too early. 22°F this morning.Those are awesome pictures and the best flowers, because they turn into fruit for eating
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What did you do in your orchard today?
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I find this interesting and thought I would share my learning experience.
Peach post bloom and prior to shuck split. The tip of the flower center called the stigma, turns brown, that's completely normal.
The stigma will swell and eventually pull or split the shuck (flower) away from its orginal base. This is known as shuck split. The stigma is now a little peach fruitlet.
If the peach fruitlet continues to get plump, green and fuzzy, the peach is good. The shuck will eventually dry up and fall to the ground.
Pictures are from one of our rich may peach trees. Rich May is a early ripening variety.
P.S. Maybe I'm just easily amused....But I find all this interesting.
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Peach post bloom and prior to shuck split. The tip of the flower center called the stigma, turns brown, that's completely normal.
The stigma will swell and eventually pull or split the shuck (flower) away from its orginal base. This is known as shuck split. The stigma is now a little peach fruitlet.
If the peach fruitlet continues to get plump, green and fuzzy, the peach is good. The shuck will eventually dry up and fall to the ground.
Pictures are from one of our rich may peach trees. Rich May is a early ripening variety.
P.S. Maybe I'm just easily amused....But I find all this interesting.
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Just finished spraying our monster southern bartlet pear tree. I strapped 5 gallons of juice on my back and sprayed it with the 14 foot extension wand the very best I could. Hopefully it'll help with it's rust issue. All I know... Is no one should plant a pear tree on standard roots and not trim it ever. That tree is crazy tall and big. I keep saying I'm going to take a chainsaw to it and bring it down to about 12 foot tall but it hasn't happened yet. It's a stately old thing and I kind like it stately. But then again it's way to tall and completely un-manageable as is. If it didn't have a rust issue, I would definitely leave it as is. But in order to battle the rust, I need to cut it way back so it grows new wood and I can spray it properly. 
I've learned the winds tend to die down right before dusk, unless there is a storm rolling in. So right before dusk is a great time to spray.
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I've learned the winds tend to die down right before dusk, unless there is a storm rolling in. So right before dusk is a great time to spray.
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More grafted pears broke bud today. I set them outside to get the sun they need to grow. I grafted them onto OHxF333 pear rootstock which is a semi dwarf root stock and will grow to be 12 to 16 foot tall, when fully mature. That's a good height to harvest a pear tree from the ground with a telescoping picking pole.
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