{"id":284,"date":"2010-04-13T22:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T02:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daringdrake.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2010-04-13T22:58:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T02:58:06","slug":"the-scary-hoarfrost-radiation-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/the-scary-hoarfrost-radiation-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"The scary hoarfrost (radiation frost to all the scientist out there)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday the 9th turned out to be warmer than predicted, so no problem with the blooms.\u00a0 As of today, Tuesday the 13th, we now have pluots, asian plums, american plums and european plums in bloom.\u00a0 The pears are close to bloom and most of the Ribes are close with a few varieties of gooseberries starting to bloom.\u00a0 No problem with the Ribes, they can handle 24f to25f and have limited damage to bloom.\u00a0 Plum blossoms\u00a0can only handle temperatures down to 28f to 29f.\u00a0 Once the fruit sets they can handle lower temperatures.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m writing this blog at 11pm waiting for the low temp. and possible frost after midnight.\u00a0 The temperatures are actually supposed to begin to rise after about 2am, so the critical period is 12am to 2pm.\u00a0 So while having a cider and downloading some pictures from the digital camera, I wish some of the warmth from the pruning pile we burned on Sunday night would radiate off these pictures and out into the orchard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285 alignright\" title=\"100_3745_00\" src=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3745_00-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"100_3745_00\" width=\"236\" height=\"215\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-286 alignleft\" title=\"100_3746\" src=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3746-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"100_3746\" width=\"218\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday the 9th turned out to be warmer than predicted, so no problem with the blooms.\u00a0 As of today, Tuesday the 13th, we now have pluots, asian plums, american plums and european plums in bloom.\u00a0 The pears are close to bloom and most of the Ribes are close with a few varieties of gooseberries starting [&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-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}