Yes, Bill, you are correct. They went out of commercial use with the advent of
the over-head sprinklers back roughly a little after the time the EPA in the
late 1970s started finding it’s feet, so to speak . Gosh the last time I saw a
smudge-pot was in an antique shop in Ybor and the seller was asking $450.00
for it, and it was one rough example of the device. :) It’s pretty interesting
how irrigation and frost-protection technology has advanced, just like
everything else. The industry went from smudge-pots to over-head sprinklers to
a brief foray into large propeller driven fans oscillating above the tree-tops
to finally today’s under-tree micro-jets. No telling where its headed next -
I’m speculating that there will be a venture into genetics and developing
varieties that are frost/freeze resistant, if the folks up in the university
labs aren’t already doing that in Gainesville at UF or at Davis in California
at UC.
Best regards,
Peter S
On Apr 12, 2021, at 12:41 PM, Bill Abbott 3 <captbilly3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter S,
I assume the ubiquitous orange grove smudge pots of yore are long gone.
Bill
On Apr 11, 2021, at 17:15, Peter Stevens (Redacted sender "fritzj3" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for the confirmation. We haven’t used overhead sprinklers here in
Florida in the commercial citrus groves for nearly thirty-five years. The
industry has switched to micro-jet emitters that, for freeze-protection, to
create the same ice envelope on the fruit from below from the ground lain
system, and it also generates a warm-vapor envelope that wisps through the
canopy during the night coating the limbs and trunk in ice as well. Thanks,
Aram - it’s always interesting to see how other ag folks handle weather
conditions and protect a coming crop.
Best regards,
Peter S
On Apr 11, 2021, at 7:58 PM, Peter Stevens (Redacted sender "fritzj3" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
WOW! Those were wonderful, Aram. The pink under the ice looks gorgeous.
Well done, sir!
Do the growers spray down the trees with overhead sprinklers?
Best regards,
Peter S.
On Apr 11, 2021, at 7:19 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Finally had a cool night where the orchards needed to undertake a bit of
frost control to protect the flowers. Always pretty. Darn near froze my
fingers off with the cold temperatures and the sprinklers hitting me for
an hour. My gloves actually started to freeze to my hands. But it was
fun.
Nice blossom with some shorter icicles (Q2)
Johnson Orchard Ice-1010735 (leica-users.org)
Much Longer ones (D750 with 100 APO)
Johnson Orchard Ice-6604-Edit (leica-users.org)
Encased (Q2)
Johnosn Orchard Ice-1010713-Edit (leica-users.org)
Sun Star with some sprinkler action (Q2)
Johnosn Orchard Ice-1010710 (leica-users.org)
Extreme crop from the one above (Q2)
Johnosn Orchard Ice-1010710-2 (leica-users.org)
Nice the Q2 is water sealed because it did get wet.
Comments welcome.
Aram
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Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself
would ever have dared dream.” James D. Watson
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