Will Coming Cold Hurt Budding Trees
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Updated: April 17, 2007
It`s ironic that some leaves have yet to fall from their branches, and yet other branches are ready to sprout new ones.
The spring cycle has been excelerated a bit this year in certain varieties -- and now the weather is expected to turn into something a little closer to winter than we`ve seen so far.
"A lot of buds are a bit larger than normal right now, "Ken Colvin runs the Green Country Nursery in Jones. He says even though several trees are budding -- it`s still too early for the cold to do any real damage.
"If the temperatures get down into the teens or the single digits it can freeze that bud. It actually will turn it black inside and it will die and fall off. But the tree will actually reset itself and create a new bud and still have that new growth."
Colvin says if freezing temperatures hit us in another month or so -- the plants that are starting to bud now could see significant damage
