What I’m taking away more than anything is how much of the season is already decided before it even starts. Not just whether trees make it through winter, but how cleanly they come out of it and settle into growth.
It kind of reframes things even more for me…less about what we do in summer, and more about how stable we keep the system earlier on. Water, temperature, root conditions… all that quiet stuff that doesn’t get much attention but shows up later in the fruit.
Makes me think a lot of what we chase during the season is really just the result of what happened months before. Really valuable work here.
Thank you for such a lovely comment and your points are so true! Everything, each moment in growing, is about what came prior and we often don’t think that way; we tend to think in the moment.
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What I’m taking away more than anything is how much of the season is already decided before it even starts. Not just whether trees make it through winter, but how cleanly they come out of it and settle into growth.
It kind of reframes things even more for me…less about what we do in summer, and more about how stable we keep the system earlier on. Water, temperature, root conditions… all that quiet stuff that doesn’t get much attention but shows up later in the fruit.
Makes me think a lot of what we chase during the season is really just the result of what happened months before. Really valuable work here.
Thank you for such a lovely comment and your points are so true! Everything, each moment in growing, is about what came prior and we often don’t think that way; we tend to think in the moment.