The first thing I did after your tables was imagine what was flowering and in particular my normally over-productive pear hybrid was in full flower during the heavy snow. Easy to prove it was April 10-11. So I'm one of probably very few people that will wind up grateful for all this that happened because I won't need to be fruit thinning. If I have no pears on my pears that get codling moths then that might be one more positive side effect.

As far as my hybrids and asian/japanese plums. This flowering occurred in March. The results of using Methley hybrid plum pollen (got those from John S) onto my Shiro plum had been placed on several flowers of Shiro on a nice day. I marked them, they held up for about past the April snow, then turned yellow and lost them. This proves that for Methley plum to be a good pollinator it will need at least to be different than this year was. Hybrid Lydecker also could not form fruits on Shiro. Shiro manages to form fruit every year from within itself, and including this year, there will be a few plums. 

Hybrid Shiro pollen placed on 6 Lydecker hybrid plum flowers succeeded to produce one (ie. 1/6th success). The pure nankings and pure beach plum pollens have started my Lydecker fruiting this year (ie. about 1/3rd success). What my Lydecker looks like is under my huge aluminum framed patio door glass, unlike the Shiro in open air. This aids in the bumper crop prediction for Lydecker and future classes of mini-plum species! I guess it's also amazing how four 1.5 inch round poles pounded into the ground can hold a large sliding glass door overhead without being blown off or crushed with snow! 

If that's freeware then I would like to make one since it's raining this week for the month of March. 

With cold and wet still going on into May it won't take much figuring out that we are getting lots of nitrogen percolating into the root zone. Nitrogen is a good thing because it works to promote explosive growth. But what are the side-effects? 

So it is, that I have heard now in writing, that nitrogen does have a side effect, so let me source the article that states that essentially what any nitrogen applications will do irregardless of the source of nature or farm fertilized:

2022/may/07/secret-world-beneath-our-feet-mind-blowing-key-to-planets-future

Of course it may be just as simple to quote what is said, which is, that ground dwelling bacteria build structures in the soil beneath our feet, in turn, thus allowing fruit tree roots to breathe the breath of life, - right? 

It makes allot of sense to me that from all this rain and unwanted possibilities of nature that these soil bacteria are going to need an unusually longer natural rebuilding period of time to fix what is currently dooming our fruit trees. (ie. peach leaf curl to plums and peaches etc)

It also makes just as much sense for somebody to spell me out that I don't know what I'm talking about too. And we don't know. This and other articles have yet to gain this kind of tracing-out and insight in busy times of trying to figure out more important issues of a shrinking world. So there's zero proof that I do know anything. 

One glimmer of hope, or might give some hope of answering this, are the huge rocks that surround the locally planted apricot trees and surely roots are extending all underneath these huge boulders. None of those parts of the roots would be effected by death of the existent microbes because it is physically not presented there. For example the rain is deflected away. Heavy fall leaf clutter and decomposition (not pictured) would also capture nitrogen that would otherwise inflict the same kind of slow motion train wreck. 

This is the only picture from HOS local forums done on another topic elsewhere that's needed to portray the "boulder protection".

Healthy & productive Vancouver WA apricot seedling of Moorpark

Data from PDX inclusive of wind speeds and rain for averages so far this month compared to last January 2022 is we just got 28% more in wind speed and about 65% of the rain.

The former is an aid to the latter in both the lowering of overall disease susceptibility and keeping things dormant (ie. expanding too early). The proof of this theory is best to come from James who we know has the very earliest flowering type of ume apricot. Nothing is expanding yet on this side of the river of PDX other than Shiro plum. I won't be gathering scions from Shiro, it's probably too late now. 

Here is where I got my data:     PDX update

Over the years I have noted gummosis develop near areas in cherry branches that still have leaves attached. Mine all blew off in the night between January 4^th to 5^th.

Makes sense Jafar. If I remember right all yours is likely to be less windy? Therefore my shiro next to a solid new fence of 6 feet tall and having been reduced so short and wide brings early flowers. By comparison all the rest of them are near wire fences or no fence at all.

Next door the now dead homeowner had a squatter living in that garage last winter. The surviving estate gave him the boot this year. He always said his temporary housing here is the most windy place around the town. What we see is that fruit trees feel it too.