It is one big natural calamity after another. But here's one that I can't do much about. We had winds gusting to 45 mph. And here's what it did to my supposedly bumper crop of stone fruits:

And another:

Even on the lawn, I have fallen fruits:

it showed me no mercy, including some citrus flowers before their prime have fallen off:

A good bunch of cherries are in the mix too.

They're everywhere, including under the ladder:

In the pots and around the pots.

It literally showered stone fruits everywhere!

We expect more of these disaster winds!

That was just before Harvey came to visit. But more on this disaster later...

That is heart breaking.. atleast most of the growth that got fried by the freeze is starting to grow back already...

I feel for ya!!!
Hope you don't keep getting hammered so badly again..

Gina *BabyBlue*

Wow...looked like gusts much more than 45! Were you watching while all this was going on? Had to be a helluva helpless feeling. By the looks of things, it probably would have been dangerous to be out there with that flying fruit. I don't know a thing about your stone fruit. Will any of those ripen now that they are off the tree? Obviously no helpful windbreaks around or able to be utilized. I'm sure you would have done something by now for that. What can you do for any future winds? Does keeping trees shorter and more compact help at all for this? Well...hope you recover okay.

Thanks Gina and Ohiojay.

I still have decent crop left on the tree. Any more of these and it will truly be yield reduction. Still early in the season, and normally expect about 2 more of these types of wind. But from the looks of global climate change, we are going to have 15 more of these kinds of events. We've had about 5 of these winds earlier when normally we've had about none at this time.

Whenever there is a shift in the temperature patterns or rains, the transition brings out these winds, but they used to be mild, unlike this one. Already I see another one in the forecast in the coming days.

What a shame Joe! We had winds in the 30's and it blew lots of new leaves off of trees. It caused me to do some pruning on my citrus to keep nearby limbs from breaking the new shoots from my grafts-- I fortunatly did not loose any.

i also have a solution to the wind problem, just had no time to implement them. It is quite easy. The trick is to prevent branches from rubbing each other off. So this could wait next year when it is easier to work on bare trees, but then I'd be grafting at that time. So we'll see for next year.

Thats really a shame Joe, I feel for you. And hopefully no more bad winds will come you way but as yo said with global warming everything is on the fritz.