About one-third or slightly more of the Abilene fruit crop appears to be lost. A lot depends on what type of fruit tree you have. Whether you have lost some or all of your fruit comes down to the condition of the female part or pistil. Pollen will not go down the tube.
Homeowners can go out in the yard and pick a bunch of blooms.
The pistil will be about the size of the end of a matchstick. The pistil is made up collectively of the stigma, style and ovary. Bomar says plums and peaches were among the trees hit the hardest. Pecan trees are fine. Pears and apricot trees also were commonly in bloom in Abilene and got hit badly, Jackson reported.