{"id":278,"date":"2010-04-09T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T23:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daringdrake.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2010-04-09T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T23:10:15","slug":"plum-blossoms-hate-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/plum-blossoms-hate-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Plum blossoms hate frost!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the humans have been frolicing in the warm early spring weather soaking up the sun, so have the plants who we wish had just stayed dormant a little longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So the last post was a bit of an understatement.\u00a0 With some new calculations, we seem to be about 15 days ahead of 2009 here at Daring Drake Farm.\u00a0 On Wednesday we had the asian plums starting to bloom and now on Friday we have a few blossoms opening on the american plums.\u00a0 The day time temperatures are not as conducive to insect pollination, but that will probably not be a real problem.\u00a0 The potential low temperatures tonight and early next week could be a bad thing.\u00a0 Hope for a nice steady wind over night and a low above freezing.\u00a0 Once the fruit sets it is less of a problem.\u00a0 Spring is always an interesting time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-281\" title=\"100_3734_00\" src=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3734_00-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"100_3734_00\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3734_00-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3734_00-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-279\" title=\"100_3735\" src=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3735-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"100_3735\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3735-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3735-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the humans have been frolicing in the warm early spring weather soaking up the sun, so have the plants who we wish had just stayed dormant a little longer.\u00a0 So the last post was a bit of an understatement.\u00a0 With some new calculations, we seem to be about 15 days ahead of 2009 here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}