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Not a single damson this year...

 
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Mary-Jane



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Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales
PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 12 9:15 am    Post subject: Not a single damson this year... Reply with quote
    

...not one

I assume its the trees having their 4-year cycle shut down for a season? Fin and I took down one of the really old ones back in March - that wouldn't have affected anything would it?

Nicky cigreen



Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 12 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

we are having a rubbish tree fruit year - there are barely any apples, only a handful of plums etc.

Its the same for everyone locally - so I assume it is down the the weird spring weather - we had very hot followed by wintery just at the blossom time. - So I would see how everyone else in your area is doing - maybe the same problems for you.

jamanda
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 12 10:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Odd though, we went to Rosemoor yesterday and all their trees were laden. Maybe they are just in a very advantageous spot.

gil
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 12 10:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Not a single damson, plum, greengage or sloe here, and I have quite a lot of fruit trees - bad weather after blossom time, when the fruits were setting. There was a lot of blossom, but nothing came of it.

Mary-Jane



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 12 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

gil wrote:
...bad weather after blossom time, when the fruits were setting.


Actually, I didn't even see any blossom this year gil

12Bore



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 12 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We had loads of sloes on the bushed very early this year, then they all disappeared, now coming back in much smaller numbers than usual.

Luath



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 12 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Terrible year for all fruit here too.

oldish chris



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 12 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My theory is that it was a late frost. We had a coupe that didn't seem to last until dawn, but burnt potato foliage that was under fleece.

Our crop? Way better than M-J's, we've got at least three!!!

tai haku



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 12 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

oldish chris wrote:

Our crop? Way better than M-J's, we've got at least three!!!


I had two plums but they both dropped off.

12Bore



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 12 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tai haku wrote:
oldish chris wrote:

Our crop? Way better than M-J's, we've got at least three!!!


I had two plums but they both dropped off.

Yup, deffo a severe cold spell!

TTouch Homestead



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 12 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

No plums, but defo got damson. One crab apple nothing, the other bulging. Some apples trees nothing, others only slight less than last year...weird ol' weather I think.

dpack



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 12 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

weather at flowering put an end to the local york ones

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