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Picture, .. LOOK! My asian pear

16 years ago

In SNOW! LOL

I've already mowed twice, everything is GROWING it's been sunny (well, off and on) and now it's snowing again! I LOVE snow, so it's cool! (no pun intended) But I'm not sure my fruit trees like it this late! lol

taken 40 minutes ago... now there is NO GREEN to be seen! all white!

{{!gwi}}

Dory left her poor little puppy outside!

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liz
16 years ago
i sure hope that beautiful tree survives all that white stuff and why haven't you rescued that poor puppy...LOL...(our female carries all her toys outside too...i make a trip around the yard about once a week to gather them back up and throw them in the washer!)
Linda Wayman
16 years ago
Kat, that sure is pretty. I hope it's a snow that will melt real soon before damage is done to things that are blooming. Is it supposed to warm up soon?

Linda
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I can say that my cherry tree is suffering from a fungus because of the cool, damp temps we've been having. Perhaps your tree will come back fine next year under more favorable growing conditions than we've had this year. I wouldn't necessarily blame the soil, mine are planted in clay too and one of them is doing fine....the other was a year end purchase at Lowe's and it has yet to do anything although it has been in for 4 years (it gets taller, no fruit or flowers). Leaf curl is something I've experience on other trees and you can spray for that with dormant oil in the spring. Your best bet IS to take in a branch with the fruit and the leaves still on it, and with leaves from the ground and to take it to your extension agency. They will be able to tell you what it is and what to do about it far better than we can guessing at the problems (temps, moisture, etc.) without a picture and without knowing the conditions your area has had. I hope this helps.
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is it your opinion that it was not worse than normal .. or is there some scientific basis for said presumption ... out here near ann arbor.. we had a z4 winter in what is normally z5 ... THIS MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE TO various plants ... i have always had trouble with peach ... and why a cold winter would affect one of the 3 will be left to the garden muses ... regardless.. i doubt its bug related.. or anything else.. other than winter damage .. but you really never know ... on top of all that.. forming of buds.. with subsequent failure.. usually indicates a frost or freeze.. and yes.. it can hit only some plants in a given space .... a picture would be worth a thousand more words of speculation ... keep it well watered.. and hopefully it will recover ... ken
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Here is another picture I took of the mystery fruit. Erwin Meekers has suggested this is Bong Ri, (a Nijiseiki x Ya Li cross). Here is a picture of Bong Ri from an Australian government website, http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/reader/pome-fruits/BongRi.htm . I think he is right. How it got in my neighborhood is a mystery. -Mark Lee, Seattle
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glenda_al
16 years ago
Pretty pics, Missy Kat!

Bet that's one stiff pooch!
vannie
16 years ago
I'm so glad ya'll keep the snow up there. We're having a beautiful sunny day--going to be in the 80's
jen_tx
16 years ago
Snow is cool? Kat, you just amaze me with your schmartness! lolol

Those pics are awesome. Is the snow going to ruin the blooms or is it just a shortlived blizzard? :-)
lydia1959
16 years ago
I hope there's no damage to the tree.

My dog likes to take my shoes outside and leave them. He has a shoe fetish I guess.
donna_oh
16 years ago
Kat, get your butt out there & hold an umbrella over your beautiful tree!

Donna (^_^)
nodakgal
16 years ago
YUCK!
You should have posted a warning that this pic may offend some!!!!!
Bwaaahahaha! I don't wanna see ANY more of that white cr@p!
Its like 63 and sunny here! (windy too of course)
justlinda
16 years ago
While we only had a snow shower up here in the Comox Valley, Vancouver Island....I heard that down island in Nanaimo they had about 1 foot of the white fluffy stuff. I also heard that they're (ummm not sure exactly who they are - lol) predicting one of the coldest summers in many many years for us.....brrrrr!!!
kacram
Original Author
16 years ago
LOL.. welll, I went up to West Seattle to see my Daddy (it's his birthday) ON the way up I had to change from my regular glasses to my prescription sunglasses and back again about5 5 times! lol ws sunny up there, and starting to snow when I left. All the snow is gone from here now, a little cold though.

DS's girlfriend called, they are playing baseball at home, and she had to call and say that DS got another home run, and that she was wearing shorts and tank top! lol
bettyswwa
16 years ago
Kat....we are about an hour south of you. We had 4 inches yesterday and got up to find about 2 inches this morning. The flowering plum that line our driveway and our magnolia that were bloom were covered with snow. The snow, sleet, hail and rain the past couple of days have just about knocked all the blooms off the flowering plum. I'm sure the magnolia blooms will suffer. It was freezing here this morning. I know the county north of Seattle got a lot more snow than we did. Last weekend it was 84 here and this weekend all this snow. Go figure. LOL
kacram
Original Author
16 years ago
strange, huh? about an hour after I posted, it started snowing agan! we got another inch, but it was almost gone this morning! lol

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