00:00This does not look right, and it's not. We're in mid-May across parts of the Northeast, and many trees
00:05still have no leaves, oaks, sycamores, and some spots entire neighborhoods.
00:10Here's what happened. A surge of near 90-degree heat in mid-April woke trees up early, and then record
00:16cold, a hard freeze, and just like that, those early buds were gone.
00:21Arborists at the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia and another for the Penn State Ag Extension Office in the Poconos told
00:26us this is extremely rare in mid-May.
00:29So, are the trees dead? Most? No. Most of them are going to be okay. Healthy trees have backup energy.
00:36They can push out new buds, sometimes multiple rounds over a single spring, but it will take some time as
00:42we transition through May into early June.
00:45Some trees could be four to six weeks late leafing out. We did lose a lot of plant growth, and
00:50stressed or unhealthy trees may struggle more and could benefit from a light organic fertilizer.
00:56But many of these trees are 100, even 200 years old, and they've survived extremes before.
01:01So, if your trees still look bare, wait. Give them a chance. Spring is not canceled. It's just running late.
01:07And the way we're blowing up somewhere.
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