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I don’t remember the major location change from in-town to the more elevated airport, but I know it was pre 1940s. 95-96 is when the airport sites converted to ASOS/AWOS. But yeah, most of that time frame is the same location.

@wokeupthisam Here’s a question I always wondered… The Christmas trees are getting cut dormant after Thanksgiving. Can you cut dormant scions from a tree (winter pruning) and bark graft to a cut stump in the spring when the bark starts slipping? Or are the trees functionally dead after cutting and sitting all winter? I’m not familiar enough with firs to know if the sap tries to flow despite being chopped a few months prior. Being able to reuse a mature root system would have the new grafts sizing up quickly.

Yup. Hoping for a half inch.

Busting aside…here’s to a good winter season. Hopefully everyone gets the weather they want…70° here while it’s snowing in Southington.

Deadbeat dad

Greta will be taking her flotilla to the arctic ocean in a few years after we take over Greenland.

Nice. Growing any concolors there? I will have to watch the HGTV episode now. Edit…n/m. I see them on your site.

Well my point is we’re on an 8 year run of very little “real” cold in October. Historically you’ve pulled a sub freezing with wind by now.

Just wait until the 2030 normals. The same month would feel even cooler.

Nah…we’re getting a few light frosts in rad spots in late October. We cool

From 1921-2016, ORH had 5 Octobers that failed to have a temp of 32° or lower. From 2017-2025, they have had 7 including 5 in a row.

Min 32.8° A light frost, but a little warmer than yesterday morning. The hanging petunia lives on.

Sundance???

If you’re 100ft higher you’d be a hair warmer in theory. But it really comes down to whether or not your location is in the lowest spot locally so the cold can drain and pool. If you have a Christmas tree farm it shaves another 5°F off.

Yeah…those would be some huge birds when you think of the scale there. And that’s up at outflow level.

Do you have acorns? There’s been almost none here.

Mine is still out too. Hose in different area codes?

We blue. Unfortunately Dodger and not Jay.

The lack of arctic ice is killing his autumns

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RGEM and NAM get the secondary going around NYC and track it over SNE up to coastal ME. Hopefully that keeps the rain going a little longer and heavier up here.

Don’t worry about a thing. Cause every little thing is gonna be alright.

I’ll add that there’s a guy growing them in VT (Buzz Ferver) that is right next to MPV airport. I know of a few people growing them in Quebec too. There’s someone in northern Aroostook near the border growing them, but he just planted them within the last few years. He’s lost most of his peaches as well so he planted those hardy Siberian C seedlings.

Your problem would be getting ripe fruit with your frost pocket and short growing season. There’s a couple of really early cultivars that may get you fruit in longer growing seasons…Halvin, Summer, Delight, and VE-21 come to mind. At the least they’re a tropical looking, ornamental tree in the landscape. KSU Chappell is by far the most vigorous variety out there, but not necessarily precocious. That’s a nice one to have if you want one to size up quickly. They can be slow growing the first few years so it’s nice to have one that at least looks like a tree.