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You can’t compare the first week of dews to entire months from previous years. Climo will bring the 2023 number way down the 2nd half of the month.

Beautiful sunny day. High of 80F. Not a drop.

I haven’t had the ac on since Thursday evening.

Foggy right now, but it’s been coming in waves. At times it’s thin and you can see mostly blue sky through it. 0.40” last night and a low of 64°.

2/20 Congrats

G’night sweet prince

@OceanStWxFFDN3 looks drunk. 97.3° yest and 92° today.

This is now my longest stretch of 84F+ for the year.

Hail core south of you maybe?

Asphalt prints and bottles all over the lawn. You hate to see it.

G’luck with the skirt

Acorn filled like rumble strips.

Bad karma. Should’ve offered them tap water.

Turned the ac off before bed. Hate that thing. I rarely sweat even in 90/75.

That’s borderline stove weather for me. I’m turning into a reptile.

Colder out than in. Lol Still overcast and 67° here at 9am.

Low 64.9° Windows wide open again. It’s nice to really cool the house off again. Still overcast and wet after a brief storm last night. Only had 0.06”.

Those are bark grafts. You slip the bark when the sap gets flowing, cut a wedge into your scion, and then slide it in and make sure you have good cambium contact. Usually they graft 2 or 3 pieces on and keep the most vigorous one, but maybe they’re going for something different there? All of the apple and pear grafts I’ve done are whip and tongue on single rootstocks. There’s lots of different ways to graft, but in most cases you want the sap flowing in your rootstock and then you graft a dormant scion onto that. That way the rootstock is ready to go and pushes the growth through the scion wood. I field grafted a few pawpaws this year, but they’re a little finicky. They prefer consistent temps around 80° to graft and callous off whereas apples are early spring. Middle pic is actually a cleft graft since it was a little too low to get a good whip and tongue on there.

I did these last spring. Antonovka rootstock.

There’s some fun EPS ENE landfalls in there, but I think I’ll take #25

89° Pushing warmest of year CON/MHT/ASH 93

Our July pattern a week into September is a tropical pattern.