mart
NE Texas
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:51 pm Post subject: Fruit trees going crazy !!!! |
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Last year we had a fungus attack our fruit trees so they didn`t produce much !! This year I have never seen so much fruit on our trees and they are only three years old !! My nectarine tree is so loaded that I have picked fruit for days so the branches don`t get too heavy !! Peach trees are doing the same !! I am waiting to see what the apples and pears do !! Is anyone elses trees producing like this ????? Or is this just a good year ?????
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Droopy
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Western Norway
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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I'll let you know in autumn when our fruit's ready, mart.  We haven't got nectarines, peaches or pears, but plums and apples.
Your enthusiasm makes me smile. 
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mart
NE Texas
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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Please do let me know !!! I wish I could take a pic to show but my camera doesn`t work with this computer !!
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daisybeans
annapolis md
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:27 am Post subject: |
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Exciting Mart! All that fruit! Whatever will you do with it all?
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mart
NE Texas
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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Well I am hoping for a freezer full this year !!! Nectarines will probably just be eaten in hand !!! But this winter those peach cobblers will sure be good !! And then there is apple jelly and pie and of course apple butter !!!! Pear preserves,,,, red plum jelly,,,, I can think of many ways to take care of all they produce !!!
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Netty
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Southern Ontario zone 5a
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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I have apple trees and I sure hope I have a good year!! I have noticed that the Lilac's are LOADED with buds so it will be a good Lilac year 
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bunkie
eastern washington
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| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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our fruit trees are loaded with itsy bitsy buds right now. they know that there's a cold snap coming tonight and haven't blossomed yet...but soon!
our apple and pear trees are over 60 years old and they seem to produce hugely every other year. not sure why...
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mart
NE Texas
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| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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Well hopefully those of you farther north will not get a late season frost on your blossoms !!!
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bunkie
eastern washington
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| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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really mart! crossing fingers!
our peach, cherry, crabapple, etc... trees are dwarfs, so we can wrap them up if we have to! 
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mart
NE Texas
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| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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I am so jealous you have crabapples !! Are yours the larger variety ( golfball size) or the wild ones !!
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bunkie
eastern washington
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| Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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the crabapple is a cultivated dwarf i think we got from Raintree. it's going on three years old. the first winter it's main stem broke in two. i taped it together with masking tape and propped it up with some small baamboo sticks and it produced five very small fruits last year. it has lots of buds on it this year, so we'll see how big they get soon.
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mart
NE Texas
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| Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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Let me know how it does !! I may buy one this fall to add to our collection !! LOL
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