Well, forget everything I said about having a good chilling season. Our warm spell for the past ten days has certainly not been good for perennial fruit crops. These high temperatures roll back the chilling accumulation, although we cannot really say how much. We are stuck at about 550 hours of winter chilling in Fredericksburg, TX. We need the groundhog to see his shadow this Saturday or we are in serious trouble. Not enough chilling to set a crop and if we do bloom, the chances of losing the crop to frost/freeze are pretty good.
Think snow!
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Hi Jim,
Just a note to say that I have a 3-4 year old Fuji apple that has just begun to grow new leaves. I was only a short time ago that it dropped all of it’s old leaves.
I was hoping for more chilling hours this season. Looks like the Texstar peach may get enough, but I’m not so sure about the La Feliciana, Harvester or Loring I have here in Williamson County.
Fingers crossed…
Scott
I see peach growers in FREDERICKSBURG pruning their trees. Is it time to prune?
I would say yes. If you only have a couple of trees, you can wait until they start to bloom. If you have quite a few, go ahead and get started