Leaves still on trees
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10/31/20 11:12 AM
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I have trees that have most their leaves on them yet. I have four apple trees that have most their leaves. Some cottonwood have a good amount and elm. Some of both have dropped all their leaves. It has been down in the single digits at night half a dozen times. The wind is blowing 30 mph + today and the leaves are still holding. The apple tree leaves have a green tint to them. Anyone seen this and know what's up? Will the apple trees die off this winter? It has been real dry here all summer and fall.
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Re: Leaves still on trees
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10/31/20 12:06 PM
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I’ve noticed the same thing here, and we’re had a few frost. Wonder if it’s like fur becoming prime, length of day, rather than temp, determines when they’re ready.
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Re: Leaves still on trees
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A few days ago I could walk on the sloughs. It was in the single digits four days in a row. The coldest I have seen was 2 above. It has warmed back up now and is opening them up. I had snow on he ground for two weeks at least. It is not a lack of cold and wind. Some trees have dropped all their leaves, some have most. It isn't the type of tree that makes the difference. I have a cottonwood that has some branches bare and some still leave covered. Big branches. The tree is big enough you could not reach around it. It is like there is no pattern to it.
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Re: Leaves still on trees
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10/31/20 03:47 PM
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"Winds NW at 25 to 40 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 50 mph." I think I may have had a gust over 60, but the leave are not letting go.
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Re: Leaves still on trees
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10/31/20 08:40 PM
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Lee, It's pretty flat and some of the apples trees are pretty short/young. I am guessing part of the reason I notice it, and wonder is because my apple trees are involved. I haul water to them and usually about the time they start to produce they seem to die for one reason or another. I agree with the cold following the low ground. I have rode the ATV and snow machine, both where you could feel the temperature change as you changed elevation. It does not take much. When you can feel the difference through Carhartt coveralls, with a beaver hat and mitts on, it is changing a fair amount. I trapped on some benches in AK and every time you got up another level it was warmer. I am just hoping the apples pull through. It looks odd that everything is brown and some trees have 90+ % of their leaves.
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Re: Leaves still on trees
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10/31/20 11:28 PM
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Same here, ash trees gave them up but everything else is holding on pretty tight. Don’t have many apple tries but the Bradford pear trees still got all their leaves. Maples should be next but they are barley turning
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Re: Leaves still on trees
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11/01/20 09:23 AM
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330-Trapper our forecast read "Winds NW at 25 to 40 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 50 mph." I will bet we had gusts over 60 mph. But 60 is over 50. It was 12 this morning, but only show a 18 mph wind today. Very few leaves fell in yesterdays wind. I will bet they will still be on the trees come spring.
Last edited by MJM; 11/01/20 09:24 AM.
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Re: Leaves still on trees
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11/01/20 11:13 AM
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I would need a NE wind to see anything out of Manitoba blowing by. I am just west of straight south of the Manitoba / Saskatchewan border and 55 miles south.
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