Here in Lafayette, it looks like most of the king flowers of Jonagold were killed and Liberty suffered quite badly also. About a third of the buds on Newhaven peach and Honeysweet pears were killed. Minimal damage was found on Stanley plum. Up in Laport county, the stage of development of most crops was far enough behind that even though temperatures got into the teens, there was probably not too much damage. We may have gotten a couple of degrees improvement in those locations.
Damage depends on location and stage of bud development.
On Tuesday night we hit 20 degrees F. in central Missouri. The king bloom of many of our Red Delicious, Goldens, Fuji, Braeburn, Gala, etc. were fully open. We will have major losses not only on apple, but peaches and apricots are now wiped out, and even some of our early blooming blueberries - Michele Warmund Pennsylvania Satewide the fruit crop potential may still be good. Soon after the freeze on April 9 and 10 I was bombarded with calls from the media. I put out a news release and faxed it to anyone that wanted it.