OK...cold is bad...but how cold is too cold?
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Oh ny God! Tell me evrything will be ok? Cold Temps!
Comments (6)You guys knew I would be back in a short amount of time. :-) You are the best! Whoosh....I am just so glad the roots didn't freeze and that my mother caught it in the knick of time. I guess there are some advantages to caring for our moms when in need, right? She called me as soon as she noticed and I think I broke the speed barrier to get home and get the heat going. Thank God I have her at home watching things for me while I am away! She even zips and unzips my hot house when it gets to hot in there, like 95 degrees, until I get home. I also just realized that in my attempt to warm it up in there this am, I totally forgot to water them, so she will do that too in a half hour thank God..:-) I bought her a huge coffee and I am going to take her out to eat for that. She is always keeping an eye on the temps for me..:-) By the way Jodik, she wnat you to know she cares for you so and prays for Larry to keep getting better and for you to stay as healthy as you can be despite your sickness. You are loved by us here! Mike...Thanks for the encouragement man! I bet your trees are just awesome about now in your mix, at your hands mercy, without the mites and longer days. Yahoo. Mike...See Morehow cold is too cold?
Comments (17)You folks kinda "frost me" with a bit of jealously ... because I'm just over the climate cliff, with a solid week of 22 F already this season. Hopefully it's over for winter. (Worst I've seen in last 15 yr is 17 F.) I'm in z8b with cool PNW summers. So I'm currently forgetting anything outdoors with limbs and am testing 1' plant base "stubs" with cold frame protection this winter. At 22 F outside it did not freeze inside at ground level. Next year plan to also try just dry fallen leaves and top tarp to save stubs. Also testing a whole main limb structure stored in our ~40 F garage along with backup cuttings, which I will soon start. Below is 'Frosty Pink' vs 'Little Angel' on the the day before the first hard freeze. It started with a heart breaking "wack em down" step. This was in late Nov with a few prior weeks of below 45 F night temps. BTW the 'Frosty Pink' cutting had finally got big enough above the Y to have its 2nd flower flush. 'Little Angel' in contrast had been blooming since mid summer and still was pumping out, now less full, flowers on the talker stem, with head more exposed to cold breezes. Compare with lower flowers on the backup plant. Note plants more green during the summer. They are cold stressed here (click photo, they're not quite that stressed). BTW this location is my Wife's favorite late summer "hammock spot" l, with these two Brugs at the footend. One poor 4.5' 'Little Angel' tub test is also currently in the garage, in the dark, and not being watered. Essentially leafless now, but with healthy fat stems ... it's pumped out a few half sized flowers in the dark! Past year photos. Another LA cutting from this same plant in a tub planter, in August. BTW this LA only received 3-4 direct summer sun midday in this location. This is a cool forested yard in Woodinville, WA. A lawn chair here put next to this tubbed plant placed that top leaf leaf node at hair level ... yep, my evening "Incense(d)" area. LA grows fast and has a flower or bud at every node, with staged nodes always visible for the next 2 to 4 flush cycles. She also throws a few flowers between flushes. So once it starts LA is always in bloom for us. "Floral attack*" gets exciting from mid summer onwards ... with 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ... but I've not yet made it further outdoors before frost, when starting from a same year cutting. LA is a VERY nice fragrance plant so you need to strategically place that lawn chair to get just the right exposure. Truly mind boggling when you want it! My style. (Should it be legal sitting that close without a license?) I saved a few nice cuttings for trades....See MoreHow cold is too cold for eggs to be viable?
Comments (2)All I know is that if the eggs are the temperature of a typical refrigerator, it may be too cold for the embryo to survive. Why aren't they sitting on those eggs, is it a separate nest? With my ornery hens, I usually collect eggs that I plan to hatch, keep them in cartons and make sure to tilt them from side to side at least 2 times a day to keep the yolk from sticking to the inside of the egg), and then once they decide to go broody (on some other eggs I leave there in their nest to encourage them) I switch the old eggs with the clean ones I was saving. You may want to mark (with a sharpie or some other pen) the eggs already laid, and then 'save' newer ones, then when you get a good amount for hatching and the geese finally go broody, you can maybe have a better hatch rate....See MoreHow cold is too cold for petunias/calibrachoa to be outside?
Comments (4)Below freezing is too cold ;-) If the plants were purchased from inside a greenhouse and you have not yet had them outside overnight, I would take a few days to acclimate them to outdoor temperatures gradually before pushing them out into the cold cruel world :-) But temps into the 40's are fine....they just won't encourage a lot of early growth....See Morejean001
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