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Welcome to your second, Bountiful Bloom Update for the 2025 growing season. We'll be publishing bloom updates weekly during bloom. And in case you missed our first Bountiful Bloom update for 2025 you can read it here.
Let's dive in!
🌸 Bloom Update
February 18 - 24, 2025
Overall, we are at about peak bloom as of today, Feb 24th. Bloom looks to be progressing in inconsistent stages across all regions of the valley with the North and South showing more reports of petal fall and some varieties in the Central beginning petal fall. Warm temperatures and good weather the last couple of days have accelerated bloom.
Consistent daily bloom observations have come from the Central region of the state followed by the South, then the North. You can see this below for the 2025 Almond Bloom showing the progression of bloom stages reported by day👇.
Bloom submissions received at Bountiful Bloom so far show the South leading in bloom progression stages, with reports of early bloom, full bloom, and petal fall, trailing behind is the North with reports of full bloom and petal fall, and finally the Central region mostly in full bloom.
📣 If you're in the South or North regions, we'd love your support with bloom observations to increase coverage in these areas.
🌡️🌧️ Weather
A look at current temperature and precipitation trends
🌡️ Temperature
Temperature averages this year across the state have been about the same as this time last year. However, the extremes continue to be more pronounced, meaning we've had higher maximum temperatures and lower minimum temperatures. Below 👇 you'll see Temperatures for 2/1-2/23 for 2025 compared to 2024 for Stanislaus County.
To view Temperature for another specific county or for the whole state, go to Agriculture: Weather in the Bountiful platform.
🌧️ Precipitation
Precipitation has been exceptionally more pronounced this year when compared to last year during the first couple of weeks in February 2024. The last 5-7 days have been mostly dry with good weather. Below 👇 you'll see Precipitation for 2/1-2/23 for 2025 compared to 2024 for Stanislaus County.
To view Precipitation for a specific county or the whole state, go to Agriculture: Weather in the Bountiful platform.
🐝 Bee Flight & ❄️ Chill Portions
The result of weather on bee flight hours and chill portions
🐝 Bee Flight Hours
Bee Flight hours overall increased over last week, however are continuing to trend below last year. In the table below 👇 you'll see current Bee Flight Hours by week and Total Bee Flight Hours to Date for 2025 vs 2024.
Bee Flight Hours update directly in Bountiful Bloom to see them submit an observation.
❄️ Chill Portions
Chill Portions in the North are still slightly up over last year, while the Central and South are still slightly down over last year. Bountiful begins calculating chill as of September 1 of the previous year. Below 👇 you'll see the cumulative Chill Portions for 2025 vs 2024.
Chill Portions update directly in Bountiful Bloom, to see them submit an observation.
This Week's Featured Bloom Shot
We received a lot of submissions this past week so here are some of our favorites. If you don't see yours, don't worry, we'll be posting more to our social media accounts!
📸👆: Michelle L. in Stanislaus County
📸👆: Levi B. in Kern County
📸👆: Morgan N. in Merced County
📸 Share photos of Bloom
Share your almond bloom photos with Bountiful by emailing megan@bountiful.ag or texting (805) 704-7157 to be featured in Bountiful's bloom update
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Wishing you a Bountiful Bloom!
