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re: So the freeze that happened back in mid-March killed 60% of the peach crop....
Posted on 4/10/23 at 9:33 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Posted on 4/10/23 at 9:33 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Perhaps that's why these are near impossible to find. Closest to fresh I've ever had, addicted to them as part of breakfast. Delicious.
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Posted on 4/10/23 at 9:58 pm to Metariemobtiger
quote:
checking for blackberries
The ones down in manchac on old 51 were blooming and it looked like it was going to be a really nice batch of them. After the freeze, they all disappeared.
Posted on 4/10/23 at 10:20 pm to WhuckFistle
Peaches for you, peaches for you, peaches for everybody.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 12:02 am to WhuckFistle
quote:
Millions of peaches, peaches for free
New favorite poster!
Posted on 4/11/23 at 4:54 am to SteelerBravesDawg
South Carolina grows more peaches than Georgia.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 6:01 am to SteelerBravesDawg
Sounds like she’s praying for a disaster payment from Uncle Sam USDA.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 6:02 am to Mr Breeze
Those are bathing in liquid corn syrup baw.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 6:08 am to White Bear
Posted on 4/11/23 at 6:33 am to SteelerBravesDawg
My two trees have zero peaches on them. 
They bloomed about three weeks early and then got hit by a hard freeze of 19 degrees just as they were finishing blooming.
They bloomed about three weeks early and then got hit by a hard freeze of 19 degrees just as they were finishing blooming. 
Posted on 4/11/23 at 6:46 am to SteelerBravesDawg
My blueberries got nuked. The fig tree was starting to leaf out and they wilted, as well.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 12:10 pm to GaPhan
About the fig tree:
This is a pic of a piece that I broke off of last year's growth, which is the part that this year's fruit would grow on if the tree had leaves and was going to produce.
No sap visible, no flexibility to what should be green growth, and clear damage to the structure. I just snapped this piece off with no effort. This extensive damage wasn't done by the March freezes. We actually got well above freezing on those days. That freeze would have damaged/killed the budding leaves, but not the actual tree growth.
What got this tree was the extremely hard freeze around Christmas where we bottomed out at 4° and stayed below freezing for days. That's the type freeze that causes extensive damage to fig trees, and can completely kill them.
Now, there's a chance my tree survives. It has gone into emergency mode, cut the flow of sap to new wood completely, and will have to draw on nutrient reserves from its roots to survive the year. It is a large tree with lots of growth, and lots of roots. Hopefully it can pull through. I'm going to have to do some research on what to do to help it. The last extended freeze that did this wasn't as bad, but even that took five years to put on a crop that was anything close to resembling what it is capable of. We did nothing to it that time except wait and watch. I'm going to try to figure out if I can do anything to help it this time.
I will take a cutting into some older growth and see what it looks like when I get the chance.
This is a pic of a piece that I broke off of last year's growth, which is the part that this year's fruit would grow on if the tree had leaves and was going to produce.
No sap visible, no flexibility to what should be green growth, and clear damage to the structure. I just snapped this piece off with no effort. This extensive damage wasn't done by the March freezes. We actually got well above freezing on those days. That freeze would have damaged/killed the budding leaves, but not the actual tree growth.
What got this tree was the extremely hard freeze around Christmas where we bottomed out at 4° and stayed below freezing for days. That's the type freeze that causes extensive damage to fig trees, and can completely kill them.
Now, there's a chance my tree survives. It has gone into emergency mode, cut the flow of sap to new wood completely, and will have to draw on nutrient reserves from its roots to survive the year. It is a large tree with lots of growth, and lots of roots. Hopefully it can pull through. I'm going to have to do some research on what to do to help it. The last extended freeze that did this wasn't as bad, but even that took five years to put on a crop that was anything close to resembling what it is capable of. We did nothing to it that time except wait and watch. I'm going to try to figure out if I can do anything to help it this time.
I will take a cutting into some older growth and see what it looks like when I get the chance.
This post was edited on 4/11/23 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 4/11/23 at 12:34 pm to AUCE05
quote:
Crushed my azaleas
It did a number on my damn shrub bushes. (Christmas freeze)
This post was edited on 4/11/23 at 12:40 pm
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