goodearth_tree_suitability

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Whether a tree survives and gets its chill on this ground. A tree is not asked "does it finish before frost" — that is a question only something that must finish in one season can be asked. It is asked two others, both settled before it goes in the ground: * **Will it survive?** Every winter on record has a coldest night; a cultivar has a limit. The answer is how often the first went below the second. * **Will it fruit?** A deciduous fruit tree needs chill hours to break dormancy cleanly. The answer is how many winters on record delivered them. Both come back as a FREQUENCY across the record rather than a yes. A tree that survives nine winters in ten is a different proposition from one that survives five, and any single word hides the difference. Chill is counted as hours in the 32-45 °F band between 1 November and 15 February — the window the published chill-hour figures were derived against. A wider window would bank more hours against a requirement calibrated to a narrower one and report a tree comfortable where it is not. The requirements are yours. Hardiness limits and chill hours are cultivar figures that vary widely within a species; Good Earth computes what this ground delivered against them and does not publish agronomy.