Pecan chilling and delayed bud break

摘要

The 2016-17 winter at College Station, Texas was the warmest in the last 45 years. According to the U.S. Weather Service via Underground Weather and "Get Chill Hours" on the web, we received only 368 hours of winter chilling below 45 degrees F from Nov. 1, 2016 to Feb. 28, 2017.