> Billy wrote:
> To know for sure, you would quite possibly have to check the tree every
> day it is in bloom, perhaps three or four times a day to know if any
> particular tree is producing.

> After 30 years of watching these trees, you can be sure that I watched 
everyday at different times.  Two of these trees I can touch from my deck.
Do not lose the fact that there is more happening than just these three trees.
It just happens that these very same trees used to be nectar producers.  It has
not been an off and on again thing.  Once they stopped producing nectar 
they stopped completely.  It was just that I had to rule out all the questions like yours.
Bill Bartlett


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