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by linuxftw 55 days ago
It's entirely possible that modern horticultural techniques are resulting in the trees going dormant earlier, accumulating the required chill hours, and then breaking dormancy earlier. It's quite likely that the care of the trees has changed substantially from 1900 onward.
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Good lock with that denial it's surely must be due to anything but the super obvious thing that science is warning us about and all data points to.
this ^^^^ not to mention modern fertilizers