Umm, no. You posted this Friday, April 9, at 12:00 So dh spent about 4 hours yesterday morning putting up wood stakes around each tree and took gigantic, thick, black contractor trash bags and placed them over the stakes so they didnt come into contact with the trees. So the trees were covered Thursday morning. The Weather Channel reports Thursday's weather in Cassadaga as: April 8 Actuals 72°F 42°F 0.42 in. It's not that I really want to make a big deal about this, but consider it a learning experience. I've spent a lot of time over the years trying to convince people that there are significant differences between roses and tomato plants. I've never before met anybody who seemed equally confused about the difference between a maple tree and a tomato plant :-) Basically, while pure water freezes at 32 °F, if you start putting stuff in the water, like salt or alcohol, the freezing point gets lower and lower. Hardy plants put various sugars in the water so they can stand below freezing temperatures. Snow isn't an issue unless it's so heavy that mechanical breakage becomes a problem. According to my car, it can snow any time the temperature is below 40°F. It can definitely snow at temperatures well above damaging cold. To put this in some perspective, I keep a bunch of roses in pots in the garage because they would not handle my winter temperatures outside. When they go out in the spring, they are usually about 2-3 weeks ahead of roses in the ground, and used to conditions considerably warmer. In other words, they are going from about zone 8 to zone 5. They handle freezing temperatures just fine, and I only bother bringing them back inside for forecast lows below about 27°F. That's to give some wiggle room in case it really goes below about 25°F. For something I expect to be fully hardy here, like a tree, I wouldn't start worrying unless it got noticably colder than that.

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I personally don't sell plants or scion but you might be able to arrange something with my son (college engineering student) who uses my collection to air-layer plants. Please send me an email which is my user name @gmail.com I apologize for the delayed response. I have been extremely busy and haven't check the fig forum for over a week

I have never seen Eastern Tentworm Caterpillars go to the roses so this probably is a moot question, but if it is absoultely necessary the BTK is a good protectant. Sevin is not an organicaly acceptable product and should not be mentioned on an organic forum. The Cornell spray is a fungicide rather than an insecticide and I've not seen it to be effective against aphids or spider mites except if the pressure it is applied with is high enough (should not be) to knock the aphids off the plant although the higher humidity of applying it may discourage the spider mites.