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Comments (4)Anna is self-fruitful. I have heard applenut say that they grow larger fruit if cross pollinated by Dorsett Golden or Einshemer. However they should set fruit even if its your only apple tree. My Anna flowered profusely this year and has set fruit even though none of my other apple trees have broken dormancy yet and its only 2 years old on a Full Standard rootstock. If its old enough to flower it should be able to set some fruit. Assuming you have bees around doing their job it could be other things. Water stress could cause it to abort the fruit so could fertilizing to much at the wrong time. It could even be a pest issue but one thing it is not. It is not because its not being cross pollinated....See MoreOrder, order, order...I feel as confused as the Anna Nicole Judge
Comments (3)You should put in writing just what you want and give a copy to your tile guy and a copy to your floor guy. If possible, you should have them meet with you together at your house and go over your list. Then if either has any problems, they can be hashed out. Do this before any work is started. If the painter can go first, that's ok but he may have to paint after the other guys are done. The baseboard and such can be done by the installers and should be on your list. The tile and floor should meet flush and level. Don't let the tile guy tell you the floor guy will take care of that or visa versa. Make sure they are in agreement and sign off on your list....See MoreAnnaKay - snakes and nest boxes
Comments (2)Other aids to deter pole climbers: 1. Install a 4 inch diameter or larger plastic tubing (pipe) over the pole from the ground to under the baffle. A 5 inch tube is better, but 4 inch is the largest I can find in the general purpose plumbing stock at regular consumer's stores. Racoons find it difficult to grip the larger pipe especially if it is smooth. By experience, I found that racoons can climb a 3 inch and smaller plastic pipe. 2. Use conventional automotive wax to wax and buff the pole up to the baffle. After some time, even a plastic pipe will get dirty and begin to pick up a nicks from claw marks. Some of its slipperness can be renewed with a good coat of wax. Re-apply as needed. 3. Coat the pole below the baffle with gooey, or slippery non-drying subsance. Old cranckcase oil or new oil works temporarily against squirrels. One time, I coated a pole with new motor oil. The next squirrel that tried it got up about 2 feet and slid back down the pole. He went away shaking his body in disgust trying to rid his fur of oil. However, this may not be the preferred naterial becasue a squirrel could be sickened from liking the oil from his fur. An oil coat works for only a couple of days because it will run off the pole and weathering will begin to remove the oil and this oil is going into the soil. Try applying "tree guard" from a garden center. This is a gooey benign substance normally applied to fruit tree trunks to discourage chipmunks and other creepy-crawlers from ascending the tree trunk. It should work the same on a feeder or bird house pole. If the length of treated section is long enough, it may discourge snakes....See MoreAnna's still in town Nov. 20th 2015
Comments (6)Anna's routinely overwinter in much of the PNW - they are pretty much considered year round residents. While less common year round in central OR than in more coastal locations, they can and do remain present all winter. My suggestion is keep your feeders up and filled as long as you see the birds, perhaps all winter long. Hummers can take some pretty cold temps: "Anna’s also take advantage of the hummingbird’s motto “When things get tough, the tough go to sleep.” A hummingbird in torpor can drop its body temperature from about 40°C to about 9°C (from 104°F to 48.2°F) and reduce its respiration rate from 245 breaths per minute to 6. It can even suspend its breathing for up to five minutes. The metabolic rate of an Anna’s during torpor can be 300 times lower than when in flight. The savings are significant; they can help a hummingbird sleep through a severe weather period. A typical winter day might find an Anna’s sucking sugar, slowly turning it to fat, and then going into torpor during the night, living off the stored fuel. An Anna’s can gain 16 percent of its body weight during the day and then burn it all off during a cold night. (Imagine waking every morning 25 pounds lighter.) The fluctuation is extreme enough without adding the energetics of flight. Regardless of the season, awake and flying, a hummingbird is always just a few hours from starvation. So, unless you are following a mountain migration route south that allows you to fly flower to flower as other hummingbirds do, it is best to keep your metabolic engine parked in the garage as much as possible. This is especially important if, during flight, your heart beats 1,260 per minute, by far the highest rate of any vertebrate. The alternative is running out of gas long before you reach the wintering grounds. Anna’s Hummingbirds trying to survive a cold winter also have another item in their bag of tricks: They eat insects and spiders. They will hawk flying insects, glean tree hoppers from leaves, probe crevices for spiders, steal captured insects from spider webs, and pluck trapped insects from tree sap. And you can assume that even more insects and spiders await discovery in winter by hummingbirds that know where to look."...See Moreeld6161
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