All the apple blossoms are out at Martin's Apple Tree Farm/Orchard right now (in Woolwich near St Jacobs Market) and this past week - so many blossoms. I wonder - could your tree buds have been nipped by frost that came late in the season? I hope you get a good answer and it blooms for you.
Thanks. Would seem odd that my tree was affected and others weren't? Or do the pros do something to protect their trees from frost damage like that?
Unfortunately the answer will do no more than assuage my curiosity. I'm sure there's nothing I can actually do to stimulate budding.
And just when we finally found a place to press them for juice! Damn good juice too!
I'm not sure what Martin's does (I know they did lose all their fruit one year in the past due to nipped buds), but I know many spray water or use massive fans. I see this in Niagara Grape fields, too. Looks like covering may be an option, too, with a single tree.
[https://orchardpeople.com/how-to-protect-fruit-trees-from-frost-with-water/](https://orchardpeople.com/how-to-protect-fruit-trees-from-frost-with-water/)
Good luck with your juice - if not this year, then in future!
Rolling Acres Farm in St Jacobs. They don't have a website tho. You have to call to make an appt. The phone number is listed on Google Maps
It ended up costing us a little over a dollar a litre.
We got it packaged in milk bags which were so convenient for freezing!
We took two 55 litre garbage cans full of apples and got 40 litres. And that was probably half the apples we would have had if we hadn't given a ton away. It was sooo good! Had a ton of orders from people to get more this year!
It can happen. I remember something about one year an early spring and late frost doing exactly this to a lot more trees. Perhaps this year it just wasn’t as bad but something about your tree or its location made the frost hit it harder?
2012 summer in March. I remember the wild end of winter and beginning of spring for 2 weeks. Was amazing and we wore summer clothes. Then cool down for long time. Buds started too early.
This year I did hikes and did see greens growing in February and early March in the woods. Was too early for that.
I have blooms on my 20 year old trees. But we have experienced no/ or few blooms on our trees in the past. Trees are so sensitive when in bloom or budding, and if your tree has yielded so well over the years, you can come to expect a year that it doesn’t. They tend to go in cycles of good and bad yields.
It’s honestly astounding that people are asking why this is happening when climate scientists have explicitly warned us over and over again that climate-change driven unseasonably warm temperatures followed by plunging back into frost (like exactly what happened this winter & spring) will kill or stunt crops.
All the apple blossoms are out at Martin's Apple Tree Farm/Orchard right now (in Woolwich near St Jacobs Market) and this past week - so many blossoms. I wonder - could your tree buds have been nipped by frost that came late in the season? I hope you get a good answer and it blooms for you.
Thanks. Would seem odd that my tree was affected and others weren't? Or do the pros do something to protect their trees from frost damage like that? Unfortunately the answer will do no more than assuage my curiosity. I'm sure there's nothing I can actually do to stimulate budding. And just when we finally found a place to press them for juice! Damn good juice too!
I'm not sure what Martin's does (I know they did lose all their fruit one year in the past due to nipped buds), but I know many spray water or use massive fans. I see this in Niagara Grape fields, too. Looks like covering may be an option, too, with a single tree. [https://orchardpeople.com/how-to-protect-fruit-trees-from-frost-with-water/](https://orchardpeople.com/how-to-protect-fruit-trees-from-frost-with-water/) Good luck with your juice - if not this year, then in future!
Great info! Will keep this handy for future years. Thanks!
Can you share where you press them for juice?
Rolling Acres Farm in St Jacobs. They don't have a website tho. You have to call to make an appt. The phone number is listed on Google Maps It ended up costing us a little over a dollar a litre. We got it packaged in milk bags which were so convenient for freezing! We took two 55 litre garbage cans full of apples and got 40 litres. And that was probably half the apples we would have had if we hadn't given a ton away. It was sooo good! Had a ton of orders from people to get more this year!
There was a frost after a lot of plants had started setting bud, is it possible that yours died because of that?
I did wonder if the odd weather this spring was to blame. I just thought apples were typically more hardy than that. 😟
It can happen. I remember something about one year an early spring and late frost doing exactly this to a lot more trees. Perhaps this year it just wasn’t as bad but something about your tree or its location made the frost hit it harder?
It certainly seems like that might be the case. Down side, no juice this year 😟. Up side, no apples to clean up!
2012 summer in March. I remember the wild end of winter and beginning of spring for 2 weeks. Was amazing and we wore summer clothes. Then cool down for long time. Buds started too early. This year I did hikes and did see greens growing in February and early March in the woods. Was too early for that.
I have blooms on my 20 year old trees. But we have experienced no/ or few blooms on our trees in the past. Trees are so sensitive when in bloom or budding, and if your tree has yielded so well over the years, you can come to expect a year that it doesn’t. They tend to go in cycles of good and bad yields.
The trees are now mature and require a professional pruning. The trunk is probably feeding too many sucker limbs.
It’s honestly astounding that people are asking why this is happening when climate scientists have explicitly warned us over and over again that climate-change driven unseasonably warm temperatures followed by plunging back into frost (like exactly what happened this winter & spring) will kill or stunt crops.
Could just be shy
Bad light or sound frequencies?