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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The update from Illinois is relatively good.. We also had snow bloom and sunny and warm few days during the early part of bloom which gave us good fruit set
on the kings. But the weather turned cold and windy during the middle and end of the bloom which has kept the bees in their hives.. Never the less, we should have pretty good crop. My concern is for the persistent cold weather that we are still having, which
is likely to reduce the thinners activity, especially NAA and MaxCel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Just curious.. I have not seen any recent postings from our Irish/Dutch friend Con Trass. I hope is just busy counting his profit from last year.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> apple-crop-bounces@virtualorchard.net [mailto:apple-crop-bounces@virtualorchard.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Vaughn<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 14, 2015 7:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Apple-crop discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [apple-crop] crop prospects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a small Orchard in NE Pa. and the trees are loaded with Blossoms. The flowers opened starting Monday PM and full open by mid-day Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Going to be a very heavy set given the dry weather forecast and nice 70 d days.
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Arthur Kelly <<a href="mailto:kellyorchards@gmail.com" target="_blank">kellyorchards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don't know about the rest of you but if we get any kind of pollination weather the crop will be very heavy and difficult to thin. The potential bloom at this point is scary. We are at pink except for cracking some king flowers on Zestar,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">Art Kelly</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">Kelly Orchards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Michael D. Vaughn<br>
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Pie-In-the-Sky Orchards<o:p></o:p></p>
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