Skeeter,

At this point, the odds are slim, but you never know.

Our plum trees began blooming a couple of weeks ago....first one that week, and then the second one (a native Mexican plum) a couple of weeks later, and now the third and final one just in the last couple of days. The peaches are a little slower--RedHaven started blooming a couple of days ago, but the native Indian peach isn't blooming yet, although the buds are pinking.

Most years, when they bloom this early, we do lose the crops.....we'll undoubtedly see some more freezing nights in March. However, you never know....it might get cold but not quite cold enough to knock the blossoms and fruits off the trees.

I'm happy to get a crop one year in three in our erratic climate. Between the early hot days, the late freezing nights, "freak" snowstorms around Easter, spring hail storms and crazy gusting winds in the 50s and higher, it is a wonder we ever get any fruit at all. : )

Dawn

My almond is blooming, but not for long. In 8 years of blooming it has set fruit once. Not often enough, so out it goes, and semidf cherry get the spot. Ordered 2 sd pie cherries to replace the standarad Montmorency that the ice took out. The plum and pear are breaking bud as well. Like Dawn said, it's a wonder we ever get anything. Last year was great for both peaches and cherries. Only 1/3 of the peach broke, so it it doesn't get diseased from the open wood, maybe we'll get something again.

tree will make it, fruit won't...unless you wrap it when the next frost, snow, ice comes. We'll probably only have one more batch, so if your tree is pruned, just get some very lightweight plastic, visqueen, or giant bags taped together and wrap it for the short spell. My pear is budding, but nothing here has actually flowered so I'm safe so far

I've never seen this before....my apricot tree is blooming again. All the blooms dropped a few weeks ago, then this week it had another small flush of blooms. Very strange but if all goes well I might get 29 apricots! Yeah, I counted them! :)

I would guess that some sort of weather disturbance (high wind gusts, hail, heavy rain, cold temps., etc.) knocked off the blooms but that all the blooms had not yet opened, so when the weather returned to more normal conditions, the remaining blooms opened, but that is just a guess.

So far, it has not gotten cold enough long enough here for the plums and peaches to abort their fruit, so I am starting to think we might get some fruit this year after all. Of course, it is still very early in the season, so there's still the chance that high winds or hail will knock the fruit off the trees before they can mature.

I hope your second round of blooms give you apricots!

The only time I've seen fruit trees bloom twice in one year is when exceptional drought conditions cause them to go dormant and begin dropping their leaves in the summer. Then, when you water heavily or rain falls and they come out of the "false" dormancy, they often put out a second wave of blossoms. Since the blooms are occurring in summer or fall, though, you don't get fruit from them.

Dawn