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Spring frost damage threshholds

12 years ago

I was looking through my links for the one to MSU's link "Illustrated Spring Frost Damage Threshholds" showing critical temperatures for several fruit tree species at different bud development stages and MSU has retired the page. Does anyone know where the page or a similar one can be found?

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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
12 years ago
first pdf link seems to work ..

hope that is what you are looking for

ken

Here is a link that might be useful: link
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