abnormally high temperatures of recent days are causing fruit trees to bud. The limit for trees in bud is -3°C or -4°C, but a small -1°C is a disaster.
The fear of this arborist who farms 100 ha of cherry, peach, apricot and pear trees in the Drôme is a severe cold snap next month. “As usual, we would have preferred that winter last a little longer and that will be synonymous with long stress for all of us,” confirms his colleague Bruno Darnaud.