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Maybe a sneaky frost/freeze chance for the valleys in NNE Fri morning with that 2nd push of CAA Thu night?

Nice chamber shot late week. Nothing absurd for mid Sep, but should be some crisp nights.

Warmer dews for Santa though

Yeah the GFS has been warm overall, but it's been finding a way to muck up the warm anomalies in our region for a few runs now. Front door, backdoor, CAD...I guess it's that time of the year.

I drove up to Lyndon during it. It was a little icy at my place in Auburn, but we kept bouncing between 31-34F during the 2-3 days. Like Scoot said, north of CON was a shitshow until the Notch. There it was mostly just wet in the trees so I assume we were above the inversion. Littleton area obviously wasn't bad either with the shadowing.

Definitely in winter. But the models do pretty well during the warm season. I mean it's not exactly critical to the public to have a forecaster undercut 2m temps by 5F in a spring CAD situation when it's actually 45F and rain instead of 50F and rain. We're pretty much at the mercy of the models now since we're not doing billions of calculations per second.

I'm guessing that isn't the official?

I take 132 home on Thu and Fri during warm season to avoid it.

Heavy heavy fog again

I "only" see 124F for 9/2 in NOWdata. The 125F the other day tied their Sep record high.

Hopefully endless summer right into Morch.

Still socked in here. 57° No sun since Sunday.

You can see it in their graphic how extreme these readings are for the time of year with how they jet out from the curve.

9th straight day of a record high there. All 100+. None of the previous records were over 100.

I empty it into a tidy cat bucket. And yeah it’s a bit of a pain and you need to be careful setting the unit back onto the tub because of how heavy it is. It’d be difficult to use that way for an older person or someone without much strength.

Off measuring totals that are almost as big as him.

My midea cube one pumps out 5 gals out of my basement every day in under 24hrs. I use all of that water for watering.

Yeah...definitely prune everything below the graft.

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.