HI..

DO YOUR NEIGHBORS KNOW WHAT YOUR GROWIN? LOL

marymac

Well I didn't actually laugh, but I did do a big "whoa!!"
How's your back?? (:0

I have been there in late spring we have some late frosts creep up. Christmas lights garbage bags and sprinkler water outside, living room and 1 bedroom with only a path. It was humerus the 1st time. Moving plants is not for me. Mine were starters not big plants. You are hooked.

Jim

Yep, that was a killer. They're goin' in the ground next year.

Sorry the pic is blurry, I was laughing too hard when I shot it. The Pink closest to you is blooming. (grin)

FRIDAY NIGHT - Mostly clear. Patchy FROST after midnight. Unseasonably cool with near record breaking temperatures likely. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph until early morning becoming light and variable during the predawn hours.

>>>>>It's been revised from 38 to 34 degrees tonite. Ok, glad they're inside.

I hope we don't get any early cold snaps. I'm not planning on bringing anything in the house or GH until mid Oct.
Karyn
PS: What did you end up winning on Ebay?

Karen: so far, a Desiree (plant), it's a double apricot, and I was sent a "second" chance to buy one (I bid on 2, lost on the other), so I did. I keep losing on the cuttings.

I won a Monte Toro plant (double white)Pretty excited about that one, too. (got my fingers crossed for the Super Nova!)

Can't chase the Mountain magic cross any higher. It's into my pain threshold, same with the double and triple orange cuttings. Just can't (or won't) do it, doesn't make sense. Double pink keeps slipping away also.

15 items pending. The 2 sellers are very nice - agreed to "bundle" if I'm lucky enough. Some are expiring soon, the other stuff has 4 days to go.

That's the way it goes on some, life rolls. Maybe next time.

LOL.. Here I was worried about you getting some cuttings.. Looks like I will be needing cuttings from you...
Chena

LOL Chena - I don't know, I keep losing on the cuttings. Hopefully I will have some to share. I won't know for a while. Those are way out there, 4+ days.

And what I've got are small rooted plants (6-10"). Unless I want to massacre them (grin) - I don't think there w/b cuttings from them right away - can try to push them through the winter (that might work!) - watch out NEXT year, major haircuts for all. (grin)

Side note: Going to 34 tonite, and we'll be in the 80s next week. Freaky weather. . .just don't understand.

Not laughing here as I know just where you are headed!! We have a four bedroom house and the whole place looked like that one winter. They have their own place now and I saved the family from being moved out!! You didn't strip off the leaves?? Can one say addicted??

LOl Karma - no, they're only in over nite so I can ride out this. . .whatever this is (34 tonite? 80 Next week.)

Their "home" isn't ready yet. I'll have to cut them soon - but they're going back out tomorrow to live and enjoy outside for a little while longer.

They have groups for people like you!!!LOL
We'll see ya there...
Chena
BTW!!! Have you got a Passi yet??? ROFLMBAO!!!!
Chena

Chena. . .ok. .what is a Passi? I give (grin)

Is it addicting? Prone to obsessive compulsive? (grin)

I gotta bring in the Abutilons too. . forgot about those - don't think they're gonna like "34" either.

Chena, can I push these little plants over the winter? Or are they going to need to slow?

I mean, what if i DID try to create an evironment that was like the "grow" season, is this possible? To create a larger plant for cuttings?

Just wondering. . . .

Anything is possible!!!!!

Passi=Passiflora...
It is only a matter of time..LOL
Do Not send me the bill for therapy...BUT let me know if you want to trade....
OMG... I am laughing soooo hard..
Chena

paaaaaasssiflooooooorraaa. . . .googling. . .

Look, there's a BLUE one! Giant Granadilla - wow, those look terrific, wait. . .40 feet? That's bigger than my house. . .

Ohhhhhhh,zones 10 and 11. . .oops. . .

Techno I have a bunch of wild incarnata or Incense passioflora. Just let me know. I mow them down. I used to mow down Lantana. I gave so many of them away that they never came back as a native invasive. They were not nearly as hardy as my passies. The Brugs are #1 nothing holds a candle to them.

Jim

Here is a link that might be useful: Similar to mine

Here's a pic of the passi that Jim sent. It's been growing beautifully.

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They aren't a difficult plant to over-winter. I have about 25 varieties that I bring inside sometime in mid to late Oct and they go back out in May.

Thought you might get a laugh out of what I go through with plants when the temps drop. This is some of what's left after I've put all the plumeria and brugs (and anything else that can go dormant) in an unheated greenhouse. The majority of my tender plants are kept in this room which is fine because it's downstairs, out of the way and pretty much just used to store big stuff and a place for my geckos but I've had to take over other areas of the house where we actually live too. My family hates me Oct thru May. lol
Karyn

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ROTF. . .ohhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyy g. . .. . . holy @#&%#%!

haaahahaaa, Karen, you are my idol! Wow, I mean. . .WOW. .

"I'm not worrrrrrrrthyyyyyyy! I'm not worrrrrrrrthyyyy!" LOL. . . .

Part of the const here is a pseudo "green room" for me, but nothing of that magnitude. (It's a little lean-to on the back I'm going to fix, insulate, and put windows in.)

They're going to semi heat the green room (50 at most) for the dormants and semi dormants for me. They're trying make sure that I do NOT do that. (grin)

Beautiful plants though! Is that a madivilla? And are those special grow bulbs in your florescent fixture? Or just regular bulbs? (going to stick a couple of those in my green room.)

Karyn, honey...the 12 step ain't even gonna TOUCH you, my girl!! If I want cuttings or seeds...I'm calling you first! :)

THUMBS-UP Karyn!!!!!!
Life is good!!!LOL
Chena

Karen

Don't feel so bad...my garage and house is arguably worse than that, I guess I'll have to post pictures once November's here :-)

x

It was much easier when we heated the greenhouse. I had more then enough space. Our big GH is 200' x 75' and the other is about a quarter that size. We heat them with propane but the cost became prohibitive. We only heated them for my personal plants. The last winter that I used it, the year before last, the propane ran $8000. At least the majority of my plants can be stored in a dormant state in the unheated houses. They really aren't unheated but we only keep them around 50 which is fine for the dormant plants and forcing bulbs but many of my plants need to be kept around 70. I can't stand having the plants in the house but I really didn't have a choice. DH wanted to put up a GH in the backyard but I don't want one. It would take up too much space and wouldn't be used for half the year. That "grow room" isn't bad because I don't have to be in there but I also take up a good portion of the living and dining rooms because they have sky lights and my daughter's bedroom is perfect for my orchid collection. You know how hard it is to convince your preteen daughter that she MUST keep 30 orchids in her room. lol I have more plants this year then last and all the others are much bigger. I have no idea what I'm going to do and get a headache when I think about it. I'm just praying that we don't get an early frost. Dweeb those are metal halide HID lights. The floor is stone so the water isn't a problem. I thought my DH was going to have a heart attack when he saw how I was watering the plants. I hook up a garden hose to the faucet in the garage and drag it through the house. I got really sick of trying to do it with a jug and a bucket, way too time consuming.
Karyn

I love it! My adult daughter said one thing she learned from me is if we don't have enough room for the plants we just get rid of some furniture. When the first frost warnings come, which they have here in Minnesota, everything comes in very fast and unorganized. It reafirms to me that my husband really does love me. He has one place to sit and I don't block the tv. Great Guy

Karen: HID blubs, ok. Good to know. Re: garden hose inside - too funny. Yep, dragged one through the office one day, (from front to back ) - the next weekend, I had a spiget on the back deck. (grin)

And shoulda seen the look on his face when I told him I wanted to "water" in the green room, so, not only heated - a drain in the floor that DOESN'T freeze. . .if looks could have killed. . .(grin)

200 x 75? Wow. . .wish I had the space. That's bigger than my lot! (grin) Sorry about the bill for your propane, man that's awful. Putting in a seperate furnace and a/c system for that side of the house. Staring down the barrel of a 15K bill just for my "green room" not including the plumbing. . .man it's a killer. . .all because I have this "jones" to feed. (grin)

But he's the one that suggested "sky lites" and I said NO - they leak, not if, it's WHEN. (grin) NO SKY LITES. I'll just use grow lites and misting stations.

Purplenana: re loving us. You're right. He shakes his head, sighs, walks away, and just laughs. It is love - they tolerate soooooooo much. . .although, he was just yelling from the kitchen. . ."See? It's a cult! I told you!" (He was laughing though.)

He just "helped" me take my brugs back out, the "Arnold Schwarzenegger" of plant moving. Broke off part of a triple "Y" that I was going to send out, ARGH! "I'yyulllllllll heuuullllllllp youuuuuuuuu. Deyuuulllll be fiiiiine. It will beee baaawwwwwwwwck." (sarcastic grin) It's in rooting hormone and soil as per Karen's advice. 3 blooms and 19 leaves. (grin) Told him, I don't need the WWF of plant help! (very big grin)

Too funny. Karen, fantastic area. I hope you don't get an early blast. If mine were in the ground, would have had to cut them by now, and then put them in the bubbler.

That's so true about sky lights and we installed them knowing that. The skylights were one of the first things we did when we bought the house about 20 years ago. We were lucky and got about 15 years before any leaks started. Those two rooms were so dark I would have cut holes in the ceiling if necessary. You could have grown mushrooms in those rooms. lol We did some major renovations 3 years ago and now one side of the house has lots of French doors and oversized windows so there's plenty of light. I'm hoping that we get another 15 years out of the new sky lights.
Karyn

Karen:

OH I had this house in Nor Cal, cave doesn't BEGIN to describe it. . .awful . . . .dark. .. trees all around. So when I bought it. . .what does. . ."dweeb". . . . do? REPLACE THE CURRENT SKY LITES (15) . . . and. . yea. . I want NEW ones TOO! (jeez, slap me!)

I had 23 powered. .closing AND blinds. .. . WONDERFUL. . .my mistake was using some of the old framing from 15 of the originals. Grrrrrr. . .all my cedar in that house got stained. I was so maaaaaaaad. . .got over it. But, the "automatic closing" was something to get used to. When one "sensed" condensation. . .EVERYONE closed. . .was pretty funny.

Be standing int he kitchen (the one lone lite over the kitchen) and "brrrrrrrrr" and . . you're going "what? Huh?" . . .then the rest of the house goes . . . . ."BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" while they all closed. . .pretty funny.

Yea, outsmarted myself on that one. (grin) But, no sky lites here. None, don't want 'em. I'll be fine with LITES, and misters. . .not worth cutting new tongue and groove cedar on my ceiling for sky lites. (grin) Don't want to go through that again! Bad enough I have to order more for the new part, don't want to do the ceiling again. (grin)

I hate that the weather is already changing on ya.. The Brugs and Passi's are the easy ones..LOL I have 37 Banana's that are in need of shelter..I don't have a GH YET!!! The p-stem on several are bigger than a basketball.. They will go under the house where the temps are about 58*all yr..The Plummies ,Heliconias, Gingers, etc..etc...etc.. They are coming in.. We have already had our first (of many...LOL) discussions over what is really tolerabile..BLAH....BLAH...BLAH!!! ...Thank Goodness it is 93* here...I still have time to sell my PLAN!!!..LOL

Carrying plants in and out, oh my. Done it so many years.

Am thinking this year , it isn`t the first time I have had such thoughts, to not bring so many in. It is a chore as one gets older.

Hopefully it will be yet awhile before we must bring them in
I do gather them in one area, those that are in pots and then just throw a large plastic sheet over them all, nights when it might freeze. Gives them more time outside and I think the cool weather begins their dormant state.
I have an unheated sunroom at the back of the house Am going to put some of the big tubs in there. I know that brugmansia can take some cold, just not a real freeze. Even if you lose some leaves and tips, it doesn`t generally harm the plant

Diane I know just how you feel. I'm not going to bother digging up my inground brugs this year. Except for experimenting to see if they could be successfully wintered over in the garden (they can't) I've always dug them up. Not this year. It's just too much work.
Karyn

Dianne:

I'm going to try mine in the ground next year like Ruth Ann does in her zone 5. I'll keep the smaller ones in pots (pinks won't be more than 4-5 feet) but the others, maybe I can get monsters like Ruth Ann does.

Only drawback, we had a 34 snap - if that had happened and they were int he ground, I would have had to cut them in order to preserve some because it got bad - so that's the only drawback I'm seeing about in ground.

BTW - was 83 yesterday, supposed to 87 today.

contact me through email so i can send you some pictures of my lovely brugmansia's my email is mrfixit1946@yahoo.com. thank you

Hey plantlover.. post them here.. we LOVE pic's..LOL Do you have photobucket or snapfish or something? Trust me if I can post a pic anyone can...LOL and I will even help.(kinda scarey but ok!)
Kylie