Good to see someone with some fruit!
Here in Tamworth (NorthWest Slopes of NSW) there are few people with water to irrigate, way below average rainfall, and hot dry times. So ... there will be a shortage of fruit this season.
Already, some of the fruit is starting to turn, we look like having an early start to the harvest.
My 200Manz are very lightly fruited (it will be hunt and pick, this year!) but the 100 Hardy's Mammoth look like having easily their best season since planting out in 1999. Just too hard to tell what of this is the effect of the drought and what is related to tree age. I wish someone could tell definitively
! (doubt that will ever be possible).
Heard the other day that someone is espousing cloud seeding to encourage it to rain, trouble is, there have been precious few clouds, and seeding thin air will not work!
Cheers
John