[MassChestnutOrchards] Striking out

[JohnViolin7 at aol.com]

Thanks, Fred,

Likely, in the case of the lack of female bloom on the tree in my 
pollination list for this year, the cause was that I cut down a lot of branch ends in 
harvesting last fall, thinking we would not be using the tree again, but we 
changed our agenda, or tried to. And I guess there went the preformed buds! 
Confusing though, because there is a pretty lush amount of male bloom on 
this one. The year before, I deliberately did not do any cutting, and then 
there were adequate burs in the spring.

I do notice a surge of stem growth at this time that I did not see under 
similar conditions last year, by this one tree. I wonder if there is any 
causal association there: no burs to grow, so very long new growth?
Rufin seems to have been noticing this on one of his trees.

I am hoping to pollinate my tree in Nanking a year from now, and hope it is 
blooming female like crazy. 

I have never seen the fungal problem. 

We have had at least two years of apparent frost damage (including damage 
to bloom) in the last decade. This year we got within about a degree of that 
on several nights in many areas after our trees had 6-8 inches of new 
growth. And incidentally, this applies to my tree.     John Emery


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