I am back. Hi Macmanmatty2, you said you have 1 150 chill hours. You also said you live in Port st joe, Florida, U.S.A. Your chilling accumulation using this method looks too big in my opinion. Your cordinates in Port st joe, Florida, U.S.A. is 29,80 N and 85,29 W. Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. cordinates are 30,27 N and 84,16 W. So your location is southwest from Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. I counted Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. year 2008 chilling units and it is not as high as you posted. I got Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. 778 chill hours for year 2008. You said 1 150 chill hours. 372 Chill hours less than your number. May i ask you where you got your number or what you counted? Are you sure you counted it right way? Also if i think you are more southwesterly than Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. you might have even less chill hours than that of 778 chill hours of Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. 778 Chill hours in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. is much closer your should be 700-500 chill hours than your 1 150 chill hours. I also counted following surrounding places in Florida and got following chilling hours using this method : Aplachicola, Florida, U.S.A. 767 Chipley, Florida, U.S.A. 962 De Funiak Spring, Florida, U.S.A. 934 Madison, Florida, U.S.A. 800 Mayo, Florida, U.S.A. 750 Perry, Florida, U.S.A. 600 Quincy 3 ssw, Florida, U.S.A. 873 That was the list. None of those places have 1 150 chill hours and none reached 1 000 chill hours. Aplachicola, Florida, U.S.A. is southeastern from your location having 767 chill hours. So you probably have something between those 2 places, between 778 chill hours and 767 chill hours. So about 700 chill hours, not 1 150 chill hours you got. What is the discrepancy here? Those 2 numbers are quite close to your should be around number. Any idea? No need to feel guilty any way, you may have just made an mistake, well you can learn about those.

Fawnridge hi You can look out of window to see current weather. It is little hard to see from window whart was weather say someday in year 2008. I got little hurry in my message. About extreme air temperature, i checked Miami, Florida U.S.A. weather data. On pr column is period time in hours of which maximum and minimum temperature was taken. There is many maximum and minimum temperature taken in one day time. Maximum and minimum taken in time 04:59 is summary of the day which is normal time Miami, Florida, U.S.A. last minute in day and period of time is 24 hours so it contains maximum and minimum temperature from previous day. If you remember times are GMT, not local times so that time is 23:59 in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. local time on previous day what date is text. So 20140625 day is summary of the day 24 day of june 2014 in Miami, Florida U.S.A. On columns M is maximum temperature and N is minimum temperature. Number after that character is the temperature, so after M next number is the maximum temperature. You can read pr time this way if it is for example 12.0 which means during past 12 hours ending date and time which are in date and hr mn column maximum and minimum temperature was this and this. Note time which maximum and minimum was recorder might have been on 2 days local time. If you think how you can know which day the maximum temperature occured, i think you can't be sure, but you can try compare it to weather data or use common sense. On NOWdata have U.S.A. weather data. It have Miami, Florida U.S.A. temperature data from 1895. Those have daily data, temperature graphics. You can select them and choose dates and see the data.

Bon, Remember that onions (and all the other types of alliums that we grow for food) are biennials. This means that normally they grow the first season and flower at the end of the second season. Their first season occurs when the seed is grown to transplant size and then the transplants are pulled, bundled and shipped to consumers. Once the consumer plants the onion transplants in the ground, the plants begin their second season. What should happen in the second season is that the roots grow, the leaves grow and elongate, more leaves form, etc. If nothing abnormal interrupts this second season, you will get harvestable bulbs, normally in the June-July time frame, though sometimes I have short-day types ready for harvest at the end of May. If you were to fail to harvest those bulbs, the leaves would die back, and then when growth resumed, they'd flower. The flower stalk would split the bulb and it would be of poor quality. If something unusual interrupts the second season, the onions often bolt and send up a flower stalk. I won't say it happens to 100% of them. Sometimes a few bolt, sometimes most of them bolt. Once that happens, they won't bulb up because they are putting all their energy into producing seeds. The something unusual that interrupts their second season could be something as simple as a few consecutive nights with temperatures below 45 degrees once the onions have at least 5 leaves, but also could be very heavy rainfall, overfertilization early in their growth cycle or anything else (like being transplanted again) that disrupts the normal growth that began to occur after you put the plants in the ground the first time. Each variety responds to interruptions in different ways. Some bolt. Some seem to stall and just not grow well. Some seem to grow fine and don't bolt but produce very small onions instead of the nice big bulbs one expects. There are so many variables involved that you cannot predict with certainty what will happen. DIfferent varieties respond differently, and even different plants of the same variety can respond differently, but when you transplant onions a second time once their second season has started, what happens most of the time is that you do not get a good crop. Must you move them? Can't they just grow where they are now and then next year you plant that new crop of onions in the new, enlarged garden area? To clarify, they tolerate being pulled from the ground, being shipped and being put into the ground a second time because they are biennials. If you then try to move them again, you're treating them as perennials. That interruption in their growth can cause split bulbs, rerooting, bolting, etc. Will transplanting kill them? No. Onions are tough and can survive being moved repeatedly at times, but the tradeoff is you likely won't get the bulbs you want. If you want onions that you can move around that way, you need to grow perennial bunching onions----but they give you little onions, not great big bulbs. In the spring, I often take whatever onion bulbs from the previous harvest still are in storage and are sprouting green leaves, and I plant them in the garden. They'll give us beautiful flowers (because they are in the third season at this point) but they won't give us big bulbs. Usually after they flower, the bulbs will have split into many pieces. I have left those ornamental onions in the ground and often had onions come back, grow and bloom for several years in that location, but I've never tried to harvest them. I'm not sure if the new onion plants each year keep coming from those split bulbs or if they are from seeds that drop from the flower heads after they are through blooming. I like the allium flowers because they attract tons of tiny beneficial insects. By attempting to move onions that already are happily growing, you're disrupting their natural cycle and there's normally a price you pay for that. Dawn

IM kind of a pretty big weather buff myself, and I used to get the farmers Almanac every year when I was a kid as well. I still read it for its interesting articles and such, but really, I think that NOAA is more accurate as its more science based rather than on oak trees "MASTING", and other natural phenomena. For those who don't know, "MASTING" is when Oak trees overproduce acorns to an extreme amount. It happens from time to time some reigons, and from what I understand is more of a survival insurance than anything else. It happend here several years ago, and it was truly incredible just how much acorns were produced. Never seen anything like it. I think it only occurs once in like every 50 or 100 years or something. Anyway...Im still hoping for ( and thinking that it will be) a very mild winter here in the Mid Atlantic. We have the same saying here... " if you don't like the weather in D.C., wait 5 minutes". While its not that volatile all the time, we do get fairly changing weather for large portions of the year, especially spring and fall, we were can see 40 degree differences in temps in sometimes as little as 12 hours. The D.C. Metro just does not have the same winters it had regularly up until about 1995 or so. The last true "blizzard" we had here was in 1996. The rivers and bay almost NEVER freeze over anymore in the last 10-12 years here, and seeing teens and low 20's in the city is fairly uncommon anymore. Were also very hurricane prone here as well, although most are usually strong to medium tropical storms by the time they get here. Although, a few have come through at a category 1 hurricane, like Isabel in 2003. IIRC, it was finally downgraded to a Tropical Storm once it moved just north of the D.C. Metro. Its center passed about 50 miles due west of downtown D.C., putting most of the metro area, and most of VA/MD in the worst / strongest quadrant of the storm. What a trying 24 hours that was. I rode it out in my east facing 14th floor apt at the time, and we had sustained winds up there of 82 MPH for several hours at the hight of it, with a gust to 106. That was the gust that blew the anomometer off of the balcony railing. I can tell you the vines that I could not get down, and the 10' river birch in a large half whisky barrel were all defoliated by the winds, and quite a few of the windows were blown out on the east and south facing windows of the high rises we lived in. Im glad we heavily tapped our large plate glass windows up, because those were the ones that were breaking into peoples apts. Anyway, lots of varied weather here. It keeps things very interesting. I just wish we were 1 zone warmer! Who knows, in the close in dowtown areas of NoVA and DC we have moved into a zone 8 in the last 10-14 years, maybe a zone 9 is coming? Im not for "global warming" but man it would be nice to have even milder winters than we do now.