Late frost 2020--Will it effect your fall hunting?

[Wetfoot]

Whatever happened to mainebowhunter? That guy loved talking about apples trees. Lol. I missed what would of been my biggest buck on public in 2018 hunting over an apple tree opening morning oct1. A few days later I shot my biggest public buck over acorns that didn’t produce last season. It was a bumper crop that year for both acorns and apples. For the white oak species . Last year almost zero acorns and no apples in my neck. 2hrs north guys had them

Been wondering about that myself. Didn't see any posts from him at all last season.

[Rich M]

Some trees produce on a biannual or triannual basis.

[tim]

All of my Apple trees are flowering really well in western wisconsin. Wild and the ones I have planted as well

[Motivated]

That's good, Tim. I I don't think the Wisconsin and Michigan would be affected by that specific frost, but where I am in Indiana we normally plant our gardens around Mother's Day. I had mine already in the ground and lost half of my tomatoes and all of my cucumbers. They were covered with tarps and plastic for protection. No big deal, because I had extra tomatoes and just replanted cucumbers.

I probably should have specified that the Indiana, Ohio Kentucky, and Missouri folks might be more affected by it.. here's a map of the last frost dates. Not going to repost the weather map from page one, but you can see anybody who's got greenish in this map below who had frost on that date is probably going to be in the area affected.

Day-of-Last-Spring-Freeze-Map.jpg

What I found valuable in this thread so far is that if food is scarce it will be easier to target. Of course that will mean late summer scouting for trees that have acorns and then in season scouting for the hot trees which are getting sought out by the deer.

[TN Whitetail Freak]

Something i learned from a biologist about red oaks only. Red oaks start growing there acorns a year in advance so this years crop actually started in 2019. So if we had a frost i. 2019 bank on no red oaks in 2020. Since TN did not have a killing frost in 2019 we should have red oaks however we did get a 2020 killing frost so i do not expect to see red oaks in 2021 and it should be a white oak year absent a killing frost