3 days of over 95 degrees

16 years ago

At 5am it was 77 in the greenhouse, and the high today will be 102. Amazing for mid May. Saturday, the day of my orchid shopping trip, will be 97.

I only turned off the heater a couple of weeks ago. I will adjust the watering before I go out this morning to the summer schedule.

I have the greenhouse kind of cleaned up. I have done most of my spring cleaning and will finish up on Monday after I get back from mailing my packages.

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aachenelf z5 Mpls
16 years ago
We are struggling to reach 70. Lows at night are still in the 40's, so all the plants are still inside sucking up electricity under the lights. I'm bummed. This has been such a cold start to the growing season. Last year everything had been outside for a few weeks already.

K
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highjack
16 years ago
We only have one day in the long range forecast projected to reach 70 and also most nights still in the 40's and the g/h is still sucking propane :>(

It is mid-May and I have worn shorts a half a dozen times. I have no tan on me except my face and that is from the g/h, not from the outside exposure.

Our two year drought ended over the winter and we are over 12" above normal precip for the year. I wish my soil was a camel and remember how much water it has received but the soil doesn't have a very good memory :>)

I feel like I live in England.

Brooke
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whitecat8
16 years ago
Richard, you must be getting the warm weather that hasn't made it to Minneapolis for Kevin's and my orchids.

The last few days have been beautiful, and I've forgotten to close windows in the orchid room until the temp there was in the high 50s.

Maybe it'll even out in the next couple of weeks.

Whitecat8
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lunaticvulpine
16 years ago
95 would be nice considering i can throw a vase at 12 and have it almost completely dry by 4 pm

and thats at the university

at home it gets crazy immediately at sunrise by 9 am its already in the mid 80's XD all i can say is. I'm glad i bought that hydro fogger 2 years back the. its managed to keep the sun room to a pleasant 80 max so far but I'll need to replace the circulation fan come June

any ways heres to hoping we have a wetter then average year on the west coast. XD

Gaston
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bolero
16 years ago
Most of my plants get down to the 30's at night in winter and spend all year outside. What sort of plants are you growing? Naturally it depends on what you grow but a lot of plants will take 40's and lower.
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wetfeet101b
16 years ago
Its official Richard, you jinxed out cool weather :)
Prior to your post it was barely breaking 75F at noon here in Riverside.
Then the next day we started peaking at 95F and the nights are getting warmer too, and each day is progressively getting warmer.
I'm eating a chocolate bar as I type and it is melting in my hands.

Time to switch the greenhouse to summer mode hehehe.

On the bright side, I no longer have to worry about frost at night woohoo!
Heat, my plants can handle. Frost? forget it. :)
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richardol
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16 years ago
I am out the door for my orchid shopping trip. I'll email everyone whose list I have this afternoon. I have a co-shopper and a bunch of boxes. The combined list is more than 70 plants. The vehicle will be FULL coming back.
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