Mark Wolbers
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Flower buds are set the previous season, so you already have what will bloom this season. Hopefully, you have a good bloom this year. However, my thoughts are to do a soil test now, and then in August do a leaf tissue test to see if there are any nutrient problems that you should be correcting for. Then you will know for sure if it is a soil issue.
Here in East Anchorage, we lost a Montmorency cherry that the fall wind storm partially blew over, but all the Evans cherries were fine. Had some die back on one Carmine Jewel. Lost a Zestar, Mantet, and Silken that were in the ground for two years. Prairie Magic, Altiaski Sweet, and a Whitney on Bacatta did fine. A Williams Pride had some die back, and a Whitney on unknown root stock I thought was gone, but later leafed out, but all flower buds were gone. Lost a number of apples in pots that were grafted last year, and it seems that most of my scion wood was bad. We lost one Northblue blueberry, but all honey berries are doing great. (Why do I bother with blueberries?) Our Hinnomaki gooseberry was also killed back to the ground as were all the second year canes of Fall Gold raspberries.
