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damage at this time,” the
operator of the 119 acre
orchard reported on
Thursday evening. “It was
25 degrees one morning and
30 degrees for the past two
days. I think we can take the
30 degrees because the
blossoms are still in tight
clusters, but I don’t know
about the 25 degrees.”
Eighty per cent of Haas’
orchard is in apples, pears,
and nectarines.
“In the low areas, we
could have lost the apples
completely,” he projects.
“Or, they could have injured
skin as they grow, and we
could get No. 2’s.” Number
two’s cut the fruit’s market
value in half.
Haas is more optimistic
about peaches, however,
saying that he thinks they
can take the temperatures
better at this point.
And, even though he may
have sustained damage on
his crops, Haas is typically
realistic about the situation.
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“Look,” he states, “If
every year was perfect,
there would be 10 times more
fruit grown. It’s a gamble,
and one you choose to live
with. Right now we’re
hoping.”
Adams Countians are also
hoping and “sitting on pins
and needles,” as Phillip
Pitzer, Aspers Rl, president
of the Adams County Fruit
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severe weather on Monday
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going down as far as 17
degrees F. in some places,
although other areas ex
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“That was too cold ,to
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“But, the amount of damage
depends on the duration of
the cold. If we only had that
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to, say, three hours, there
would be a difference.”
But, Pitzer notes that it is
basically “way too early to
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done.” He believes that it
may take as long as six
weeks to tell.
“We are finding some
damage on cherries at this
time, but there could be
internal damage that won’t
show up for a while,” notes
this orchardist.
Until six weeks are up, the
fruit growers are forced to
wait.
“And, that’s a long time to
wait,” Pitzer noted.
Paul McPherson, owner of
Maple Lawn Farms, New
Park, and past president of
the National Peach Council,
reports that although the 22
degree temperatures his
region experienced on
Monday should have “killed
everything,” he only suf
fered spotty damage on his
peaches, mostly in low
areas.
“It’s really taken a couple
of days to see where there is
damage,” he reports.
The owner of a 175 acre
orchard predominantly in
peaches, says that even
though the temperature was
dangerously low, other
conditions were favorable.
For instance, the humidity
was low.
“And, it also seems
possible for them to toughen
up when the weather is
consistently colder prior to a
frost. Don’t ask me how, but
they seem to be able to take
the cold better then,” Mc-
Pherson stated.
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got hurt, but that his peaches
were at their most critical
point.
“But,” he adds, “what I
think could be a worse
problem than the frost
damage is the bad
pollinating weather we’ve
been experiencing.”
McPherson, who rents
bees for pollination, figures
he’s only had about four good
hours out of the past two
‘weeks when the bees could
fly.
“It’s been positively
terrible bee weather,” he
exclaims. “Bees don’t like
the cold, and they don’t like
wind, and they especially
don’t like the combination.”
To add to the problem, bees
don’t like rain, either, which
is a weather condition
Southeast Pennsylvania has
been experiencing for the
past few days.
“I don’t know if they’ve
been doing the job or not,”
states McPherson, notmg
that this Winter was hard on
bees, both domesticated and
natural.
Eugene Blevins, part
proprietor and manager of
Blevin’s Fruit Farm, a
family owned operation near
Stewartstown, is not as
concerned about the bee
activity.
“The peaches are already
pollinated, the cherries
should be, and the apples are
only opening up,” he states.
So, Blevins figures that if the
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