dendrite

Yeah…the water sprouts like this are normally pruned. The ones that go straight up like that are just vegetative branches…horizontal tend to produce the fruiting buds. Hence why people like to train their branches more on the horizontal…apples can even go 90° and be trained a little downward. Pears are more or less below a 45° angle, but my large standard tree that puts out great fruit eventually started weeping and the more it weeped, the more the branches bent downward, and the more fruit it produced…kind of a positive feedback.

I have a lot of invasive buckthorn that I practice my grafting cuts on. I did all whip and tongue on my apples and pears last spring and had 100% takes. Cleft grafts are easier and work well too.

I think it’s easy. What are you trying to save? The epicormic ones growing straight up from the main branches? The 1 year wood from those are good for grafting. All you need to do is get rootstock to graft them on to. Some people have air layered branches, but it can be tricky. You can either grow out your own seedlings from seed (kinda late for that considering the suckers are getting mature) or get some seedling or nemaguard stock from a site. Cummins should have some the 2nd half of winter. I’ll be getting some pear stock from them.

Wasn’t angry with my 1.08” until I saw Eek double me.

Wtf

My pears go nuts. One produces large, tasty fruit. Unfortunately the porcupines did a number on the trees this year. I’m going to take from scionwood from the good one and graft a couple more next spring.

Lowell is a bit lower than that...48ish. CON normal is 42". MHT 41". Definitely more doable near the coast than in the valley.

If that 5-6" estimate is 8"+ then that bullseye of 8"+ east of you is near a foot.

12" in 60 days is a once a year occurrence?

The 1.93 is 12z-12z.

Dysentery in Tolland

Spread the seed before the first snow and just let it sit dormant all winter? It may not work down there as well as it does up here since you don't have the pack we get, but it makes for good soil contact when it all thaws out in the spring.

He lives in Taunton. Why would he use another site shooting over his house at 12k feet when he can just use tilt 3 or 4 on BOX?

12z Mon - 12z Tue precip. Climo sites are a little messed up from overlapped data.

Huh?

1.06"

Use a higher tilt.

I’d like my first freeze to hold off until mid October please.

It may be starting early

Doubled me

Limping our way to 1”. 0.96” so far. In a vacuum I’m satisfied, but to barely miss that convection Sunday night and then be on the outside edge yesterday hurts a bit. But a slow soaking 1” helps. Just keep the events coming.

Always good to get an early start on the winter seasonal rain totals.

It's modeled to bounce back, but I'm not feeling confident about it. We actually have our steadiest -RA that we've had for hours right now.

Brett won't be satisfied until his sump pump kicks on. Then he can bitch about too much water again.

That 9" wasn't even the same precipitation process. Apples to oranges all the way around.