OT/MISC Is it early or now that trees blossem ?

ainitfunny

ainitfunny

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I see pink blossems on the trees down the street.
Anyone else see blosseming trees this far north?
Northern Washington State. Marysville
 
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tinfoil

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I saw some flowers popping up in Montana yesterday. Granted they were near a thermal spring runoff, but it still seems awfully early. Especially for cold, frozen Montana.
 
Bridey Rose

Bridey Rose

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My daffy and hyacinth bulbs are starting to pop here in NE PA despite yesterday's snowfall and today's windstorm. March is in like a lion, that's for sure. Will it go out like a lamb?

But so far, no tulips show signs of budding. Maybe the deer ate most of them. I've heard deer LOVE tulip bulbs.
 
Doc1

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A friend and I were just discussing this yesterday. We're in southern Mississippi, near the Gulf Coast. We are already being covered in pine tree pollen and are seeing lots of springtime blossoming. It's been this way for at least a few weeks, which is extremely early.

We also had a very mild (and short) winter and I'm hoping this doesn't presage one of our notorious, long, humid, hot summers. Additionally, I'm concerned about what this holds in store for hurricane season.

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summerthyme

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It IS early here.. I'm worried about the fruit trees. Peaches, almonds and cherries are already starting to bud. We can see COLD weather well into May... hubby and I remember well the morning of May 18th, probably 20 years ago. We had a cow go down with milk fever in the back pasture. It was a damned chilly walk the 3/4 mile to treat her... 22 degrees! Every plant was covered with ice crstals... one of the most stunning sights I've seen when the rising sun hit them.

We saved the cow, but there were no apples or pears that year.

Only you can know what's "too early" for your area, though...

Summerthyme
 
Meemur

Meemur

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The buds are swelling on the apple trees. I'm very concerned! We've gotten sub-zero temps and heavy snows at the end of March before. It doesn't last long but those conditions could kill our fruit crop if these high temps continue, and it looks like they will.
 
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summerthyme

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Meemur said:
The buds are swelling on the apple trees. I'm very concerned! We've gotten sub-zero temps and heavy snows at the end of March before. It doesn't last long but those conditions could kill our fruit crop if these high temps continue, and it looks like they will.
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Yep... it's not unusual for our coldest temps of the winter to come in March. We're keeping the beehives wrapped up until things stabilize... could be 2 months, yet.

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SouthernBreeze

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Doc1 said:
A friend and I were just discussing this yesterday. We're in southern Mississippi, near the Gulf Coast. We are already being covered in pine tree pollen and are seeing lots of springtime blossoming. It's been this way for at least a few weeks, which is extremely early.

We also had a very mild (and short) winter and I'm hoping this doesn't presage one of our notorious, long, humid, hot summers. Additionally, I'm concerned about what this holds in store for hurricane season.

Best
Doc
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It's the same up here in northern Mississippi, Doc. Lots of flowering shrubs and fruit trees in bloom, already. The pine tree pollen hasn't gotten heavy, yet, but it's beginning to fall. We haven't had any real severe weather (tornadoes) here which is normal for us in February, March, and April, so far. I'm not complaining about that, but it is a bit unusual. I don't see any severe weather forecasted for March, but I don't know what April will bring. I hope we skip peak tornado season this year.
 
Blacknarwhal

Blacknarwhal

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Trees are budding in SW lower MI. Early, early. The groundhog called for an early spring, but this is odd. Then again, this whole YEAR has been odd so far weather-wise.
 
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mecoastie

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My maple sugaring season lasted 2 weeks. It just warmed right up. Made 23 gals last year. This year I am hoping for 6. We had a killer frost here May 17th last year and fruit got hammered. Friends orchard was in full bloom and beautiful. Then bam. Lost almost all.
 
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bracketquant

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summerthyme said:
It IS early here.. I'm worried about the fruit trees. Peaches, almonds and cherries are already starting to bud. We can see COLD weather well into May... hubby and I remember well the morning of May 18th, probably 20 years ago. We had a cow go down with milk fever in the back pasture. It was a damned chilly walk the 3/4 mile to treat her... 22 degrees! Every plant was covered with ice crstals... one of the most stunning sights I've seen when the rising sun hit them.

We saved the cow, but there were no apples or pears that year.

Only you can know what's "too early" for your area, though...

Summerthyme
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Most fruit tree blossoms, after being pollinated, can take about 29 degrees for a low.
 
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summerthyme

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Yes... but we've seen below zero temps in March before!

Interestingly, the time it hit 22 degrees in May, our blueberry bushes were in full bloom. I just *knew* they were don't for the year. However, come July, we had a heavy crop! The only thing I can think is because they were on the West side of a heavy pine wind break, as well as the house and a machine shed, they melted off in the warming air before the sun touched them...

Summerthyme
 
ginnie6

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Peach trees here are blooming and it’s early! Praying we don’t get a killing frost which is possible into April.
 
West

West

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Been suffering from cedar/tree pollen allergies now for a couple weeks. Most all of our fruit trees are in full blossom. One peach tree that is spectacular. In Oklahoma.
 
mikeho78

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Crocus blossoms in Northern Indiana. Maybe things are starting early to prep for the coming cicada invasion. Aren't the 13 and 17 year ones both supposed to emerge this year?
 
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summerthyme said:
Yes... but we've seen below zero temps in March before!

Interestingly, the time it hit 22 degrees in May, our blueberry bushes were in full bloom. I just *knew* they were don't for the year. However, come July, we had a heavy crop! The only thing I can think is because they were on the West side of a heavy pine wind break, as well as the house and a machine shed, they melted off in the warming air before the sun touched them...

Summerthyme
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We had a late freeze/frost last year. I thought we'd have no fruit from our orchard, but we had an amazing crop of apples and pears. I'm praying we have a good crop this year as well. I'm very concerned!
 
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WalknTrot

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(N MN). My trees are being pretty conservative. It did get up to about 62 today, but this won't last. Besides, I think one of the reasons the greenery might be slow is that it's so dry. No snow all winter, and I'm afraid we will have fire season long before we have budding season.
 
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Border Collie Dad

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I've seen some of the biggest snows of the year in March.
Usually around St. Patty's Day.

None in the forecast but some highs in the low 50s and lows in the 20s.

We've had a pretty mild winter here, north of Pittsburgh.
 
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Johnny Twoguns

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ainitfunny said:
I see pink blossems on the trees down the street.
Anyone else see blosseming trees this far north?
Northern Washington State. Marysville
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ALL our snow is gone except at higher elevations. It is either freezing for a week, or in the high 30's up to high 40's like this week. I'm up in the Rockies. VERY strange weather here. We were supposed to get a heavy dose of snow with the storm that buried Donner Pass; and zippo, nada, nothing with a strong dose of nyet.
 
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summerthyme

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Yep... our "winter storm warning" calling for 8-16" of snow gave us 1 1/4" of rain, 60 mph winds... and maybe 2" of snow overnight, which is melted everywhere except a few areas which drifted heavily. The weather reports... never all that reliable... now seem to be "weather guesses", and often are off so badly it's funny... if it hasn't cost us a lot of money due to planting, spraying (VERY expensive organic) or cutting hay at the wrong time.

Summerthyme
 
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