No Leaves

wolfman · Nov 27, 2022

This year from the tractor I notice the trees are totally leafless. the forests here in s.w.Pa are bare of leaves. Usually some of the oaks, etc hold on to a few leaves but not so this year. Also not much underbrush. You can look quite far up into the forest. A sign
of what ?

Adrian Billheimer · Nov 27, 2022

Did you have as hot and dry summer as we had in Northeast Pa,? a hot and dry summer will stress the trees causing them to loose their leaves earlier.

paul · Nov 27, 2022

Agree with you on that.

Here in the snow belt of minnesota, if a tree doesnt lose its leaves for winter it probably wont live a long life, the sticky wet snows alternating with sub zero temps we can get bust them up badly if they dont let their leaves fall. A few of the more ornamental town trees are like that, and it shows up after a few years, beaten up looking.

Paul

hrRoss · Nov 27, 2022

red oaks retain their leaves till spring

Mike(NEOhio) · Nov 27, 2022

My red oak here are bare again as they were last year. But there are years that they hold half their leaves through the winter. I think it has a lot to do with how wet or dry the season and more or less windy day. We've had a lot of wind all summer this year.

Geo-TH,In · Nov 28, 2022

Sycamores and Oak are the last trees to shed leaves.
A good rain and strong wind at the same time removed all my leaves.
For the third year in a row I haven't had to pick up leaves.
They are all in my neighbor's bean field.

All my leaves are gone about 3 weeks ahead of normal..

BarnyardEngineering · Nov 28, 2022

Are you looking for it to be a sign of some sort of doom and gloom?

redforlife · Nov 28, 2022

Here, we had a couple weeks of pretty cold weather earlier than normal. Highs around freezing, lows down to 10 to 15. It warmed back up afterwards (a week ago), but we generally don't get hit with that kind of cold until now or later.

Trees here are the same. They are bare and leafless. It was a much different story here last year. The out of state deer hunters even commented on it. They always come around the same time of year. So its easier for them to notice that type of thing. I hadn't really attached a time frame to it, until they said something.

But for here, I'm sure it's because of that early solid cold spell that we had. Usually at this time, the trees have only endured a few over night killing frosts. Not a couple solid weeks of below freezing point.

DoubleR · Nov 28, 2022

I would say its a sign that you've had some hard wind or rain at one time or another.

wd9garymn · Nov 28, 2022

We are north of Paul by 100 miles or so and we had a REALLY DRY summer and fall and the red oaks still have most of their leaves, Gary.

Texasmark · Nov 28, 2022

I just noticed the same thing here in N. TX. This year has been dry from about the first of May till Mid Oct.....probably not 1 fell. I
have a lot if trees and commercial grade leaf recovery equipment. looks like it will stay in the barn this year. Same thing happened
about 15 years ago when we had a bad drought. That one brought my 1+ Acre pond down about 8' and it dried out whereby I could
run my tractor where water had been near the bottom interrupted the water foul and butterfly migration routes and neither has
recovered. But since Oct., we have had plenty of rain and the ponds are nearly full and winter pastures have come out strong.

Jim in LA · Nov 28, 2022

Here in NE Louisiana we are just now getting a lot of colour. We have had two freeze spells that killed the grass but then soon had temps in 80s and greened out the grass again. The leaves are slow falling this year. We had a very warm and dry October. The Bradford Pear trees are nice and red and a lot of oaks are fiery yellow. We have been easing into our rainy season and severe weather is a possibility Tues night and Wed. The Asian lady bugs have been like a plague this year, Infestation started about fifteen years ago but this year has been the worst.

INCase · Nov 29, 2022

yeah. here in Northern Indiana our oak tree lost its leaves earlier than usual. The apple trees too.

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