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WARM Winter Nights!

20 years ago

All these past rainy days, all those days (8 consecutive and counting) have zero accumulation of chilling hours. Most nights are 50 deg F and above. With more warmer than average and soggy days to come.

My deciduous blueberries and apples have not completely lost their leaves. I haven't even sprayed yet. Already, my bulbs are beginning to sprout, all my apricots, some of my pears and some pluots are in the budswell stages. The bradford pears on some of the community parks are already showing white tip on the buds. Has anyone else noticed this?

It is the consecutive warm nights that could trigger early blooms. And when blooms occur when it is rainy, it usually meant lower fruit sets and or diseases for the stone fruits.

Not that I am complaining. It is going to be another weird year with out of whack bloom times. Let's just hope that there are no major frost or freezing events following the out of whack blooms.

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