{"id":982,"date":"2012-03-26T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T11:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daringdrake.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2012-03-26T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T11:30:56","slug":"plum-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/plum-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Plum Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Asian and American plums are in full bloom and not a good thing to be on March 26th.\u00a0 With the cooler daytime temperatures we run the risk of not having enough pollinators working the flowers.\u00a0 We spotted a few solitary insects in the flowers yesterday, but no honey bees.\u00a0 Considering it takes 6-8 visits per flower to actually set fruit, warmer days are needed during bloom.\u00a0 Tonight the temperature will drop in the mid 20s &#8211; yikes!\u00a0 We plan to cover as many plum trees as physically possible along with the flowering seaberry plants.\u00a0 John plans to stay up all night to monitor the temperature.\u00a0 He may have to light a fire to help create a protective inversion layer of air within the orchard once we reach 27 degrees.\u00a0 When things get down to 25 degrees, that is when damage can begin to occur.<\/p>\n<p>I looked back through our blog posts to 2010 when we had an early spring.\u00a0 Our Asian plums began blooming April 19th and we noted that this was 15 days ahead of schedule.\u00a0 This puts the 2012 season into perspective!\u00a0 2010 turned out to be a great long season and our melons were fantastic that year.\u00a0 Perhaps, after this nail-biting week, we will cruise through a warm spring.\u00a0 The alternative is not too pleasant to consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Asian and American plums are in full bloom and not a good thing to be on March 26th.\u00a0 With the cooler daytime temperatures we run the risk of not having enough pollinators working the flowers.\u00a0 We spotted a few solitary insects in the flowers yesterday, but no honey bees.\u00a0 Considering it takes 6-8 visits [&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-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}