{"id":8822,"date":"2023-04-02T22:03:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T20:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/?p=8822"},"modified":"2023-04-25T22:52:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:52:58","slug":"the-fruit-set-phase-of-the-almond-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/the-fruit-set-phase-of-the-almond-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The fruit set phase of the almond tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fruit set is the brief period during which the fruit forms. On the almond trees, as soon as the flowers are gone, while some petals are still hanging, the tiny almonds already cover the branches.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164657-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164657-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164657-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164657-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164657-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164657-1320x1760.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164657-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164657-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164517-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164517-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164517-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164517-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230402_164517-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, 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alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124706-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124706-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124706-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124706-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124706-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124706-1320x990.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124706-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, the chickens are having a dirt bath.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124742-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124742-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124742-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124742-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124742-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124742-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124742-1320x990.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2023\/04\/20230401_124742-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>As soon as they find loose soil, they dig holes for themselves, potholes. Then they lie down in the dust, bristle, lift their wings and throw dirt underneath, scratching with their legs.  <br \/>It is their remedy against the parasites which settle under the feathers, they can spend hours there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fruit set is the brief period during which the fruit forms. On the almond trees, as soon as the flowers are gone, while some petals are still hanging, the tiny almonds already cover the branches. These small fruits are fragile, vulnerable to a cold snap in April. But they are so numerous that we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1630,"featured_media":8805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}