dendrite

He’s moving in mysterious ways again

When I moved here I started eating a lot of peaches

Sure…we’re stepping down. I get it. But an early CAA freeze with a period of warmth following is just a bit of a bummer for me with my late ripening stragglers. If I can steal another week of ripening time by having a 33° min versus a breezy 28° I’ll take the 33°. There’s plenty of winter and cold to come. Reminder to everyone…I don’t control the weather despite what I wish for.

I do. They’re growing pawpaws up into Minny and Quebec. But a lot of growers are having ripening issues due to some flower bud damage from the late April cold shot that came after a few days of 70s to 80. And there’s a lot of solid peach options for the north now…cultivars that can handle -20s in winter that are also late blooming so they can avoid late spring freezes. They’re just not the ones you’d expect to see at a grocery store. Contender, Challenger, Intrepid, PF-24, Siberian C…heck even Redhaven is decent.

Wish the hard freeze would hold off longer. I still have a couple of unripe fruit on the trees. Under -12C 850s on the gfs. Terrible.

Yeah…good chance for the first CAA mangled flakes this weekend here. Time to get some wood pellets.

Well is getting slow to fill here again. Soil moisture sensor is 37cb which is getting a little dry for the subsurface…even after 1/3” of rain. Usually that value is dropping (getting more moist) as the soil temp steps down in the fall. As usual we get the crumbs to SNE’s feast.

0.34” Need some rain

0.15” of

Warmer lake water ftw

34.9° OVC

Premature accumulation?

It’s up to 63° in here

And yet people are clogging 93N another Columbus Day weekend to see mostly sticks.

Min 37.8° Should be a close call tonight. I don’t want to bring plants in, but MOS is 33/34 at CON and it’s a race to see how much we radiate before the increasing clouds offset it.