April has brought some beautiful weather as well as some bizarre weather, snow on April 16, but not too much in the way of showers as the proverb would suggest. We are in a bit of a water deficit, although we have had some decent rainfall on April 1, 15, and 16.
We are still pruning but seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Yesterday, we took photos of the state of our buds. Most of them still appear to have their buds enclosed by the scales, so still dormant. But, there is warm weather ahead so it would be interesting to know how quickly them come out of dormancy.
We also saw this phenomenon, in the photos below, where the bud at the apical end is further along way to budbreak than the bud nearer the trunk. This is called apical dominance where the terminal bud on a shoot inhibits the growth of the other buds on the shoot.
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