It is so cold here today that we have to wear our sweaters inside the house

So cute! It is lightly snowing here today and we are forecast to get your cold weather later this evening. I see your temperature is the same as Brian'sBrian's today. He never gets a break. It is amazing he can grow his citrus trees so well.

Cory

The site did not post my last 2 comments so I am posting again if you see doubles.

Maggy did you knit their sweaters? They are so nice. They seem to like the loveseat and think it is theirs. I think that might be my favorite spot too.

Cory

Hi Cory. If is very cold. Brian is much further north so he gets even colder.

It is freezing in the house. I am having much difficulty with this site. Last night it would not let me on at all. Today is is very slow and keeps crashing. Not sure I want the aggravation . I can see why Mike got frustrated . Maggy

Yes it is a bright spot and I have tea here every morning so that I can look at the orchids. Not many in bloom right now though. No I bought the sweaters. Buddy is getting fat he might need a bigger size. The pupps seem to have claimed most of the house as theirs .

I am having lots of trouble with this site also. I get messages in my email from bugs but when I go to the site there are not there.

Hope you are having a nice day. Maggy

Its getting cold here :-( don't really like winter spring 24/7 would be good. Love your baby's Maggie they are so cute.

Trace

I finally finished chopping the 3 inch covering on all my walks this afternoon. It's pretty tiring chopping through it. Now I can get out to the greenhouse without doing a banana peel fall. Until the next storm this weekend that is.

Cory

Maggy, Things are so slow here. I miss everyone. No Brian bus stories or joking around with Mike. Even not much of Steve. At least Trace is checking in. Where is Jodik? Who else am I missing?

Cory

Oh yes Evan too. I see you posting other places though.

Cory

Cory, I keep getting a message that an error occurred and the site closes. I miss Brian, Mike and Steve as well. Trace doesn't seem to be having a problem. It took me forever to get on here. Maggy

Maggy, I was just going to write that I was not having those problems although it seemed a little slow. Then it closed me out and unsubscribed me. So maybe I am also having problems, along with those I have had all along but am working around. I thought those issues were just because of my phone. Maybe they are working on the site and that is causing the problems as It looks like no one is posting on this citrus portion of the site. I wonder how the other sections are doing. I am surprised they are having so much trouble integrating us in. The two systems must have been very different and they are trying to preserve the historical information. It must be harder than they thought. I wonder if it has messed up the original Houzz subscribers too.

Cory

Mike, I signed in once when Houzz sent me an email and never had to sign in again. You poor dear. All that snow. I can understand why you hate winter. Your trees are resilient just like you, Brian says hi . We all miss him here. He has really cold weather. It is so cold here my pups were shivering this morning inside. They are wearing their sweaters all day. Nice to see you are still here. Maggy

Hi Mike, glad you are back. I don't have to keep logging in, but I don't know how to help stay logged in. I had that problem at first too, but suddenly it started working. Maybe it will for you too.

Cory

Same for me to Maggie signed in once and never had to agai.

Trace

How did you sign in, GW or Facebook. I signed in with GW. Maybe that is the difference?

I got an email from Houzz initially asking me to sign in. That was all I did . If you click on your user name you can see only the most recent post that you are commenting in. That is where I am now. Don't have to go to the top of posts. Just found this by mistake

Yes, I did too but it asked me which way I wanted to log in. I really don't use my FB account. Just have it because someone in our orchid society started an account for us.

Yes , I don't use my Facebook either but keep it in case someone wants to get in touch. I hear from my old colleagues sometimes Maggy

Den anosmum 'Honohono Lavender' starting to bud.

Cory

Cory

A view of the center of the greenhouse from a ladder.

Cory

Not very good looking on my end. Hope it looks better to you. I guess I still haven't figured out the pictures yet. I resized it but now it looks blurry.

Cory

Here are some new little Cocktail fruits forming.

Cory

This California Honey and Page Mandarin didn't like the oil spray or maybe the imidicloprid or soap or alcohol sprays. They were not in the sun. I just put them back up high to see if they will recover. They look pretty sad but I think they will tecover. Maybe I went a little heavy on the oil but that darn scale kept coming back. In this case maybe the cure was harder on the trees than the scale. They were just covered with scale though.

Cory

Sumo/Shiranui/Dekapon fruits.

Cory

I have tried to post this 10 timres!##=

Mike l, Lc. ReRemula is in bug again

..fragrant. Maybe I will have a growth for you this spring.

Cory

My red Aglaonema is beginning to bloom.

Cory

PS They have made it easier to post a picture directly Just now. It goes directly to browse and asks where to find the picture. That must have been happening when I was trying post few minutes .

Nice pictures Cory .maggy

Hello friends . Hugs and kisses. Mikey , Mom, Cory , Maggy , Steve , Trace , Evan sure did miss you guy's . it's so nice to be back ya hoo . I hope all you guys stay nice and warm tonight . Finally back on the forum just in time to go to bed lol . Maggy thankyou so much for hugging all my friends while I was away your an angel . Love you guy's ton's .

Brian

Glad your back Brian. I missed you. We all did.

Cory

Brian. Yahoo! So glad you are back. Hugs .maggy

Right back at you guys . Cory your GH and flowers are so beautiful !!!!! . Cory your citrus tree that has all the brown leaves is it touching the top of your GH ? The leaves maybe getting frozen if they are touching the GH or just super cold . The leaves that touch the side of my GH turn brown just like that . Maggy what's the temp in your GH? More snow Mikey what's going on buddy?

Brian

Brian, the temp in my greenhouse is 55 F right now .Maggy

Yep Maggie and all I to signed in GW to maybe that's why. Corey love your plants my greenhouse is 68 right now. Hope my sumo blooms soon to Cory welcome back Brian miss you buddy :-) hope all is well.

Trace

Hi Brian, no, they were not near the glass at all. I think maybe the imidicloprid drench for citrus and the many soap, alcohol and horticultural oil sprays and cleaning have just been too much for them. My orchid leaves don't look too good either. But the scale is so bad, I had to keep cleaning them because even the imidicloprid was not working...at least not fast enough to keep the scale in check. I kept the trees down low away from of any possible sunlight to avoid them burning. I think it is chemical burn. Believe it or not I am still finding the white mealybug looking form tonight on some phalaenopsis and oncidiums. I didn't notice any on the trees thank goodness. I put them back up high tonight because I figured with all the snow forecasted for this weekend I will not have to worry about sunburn. I hope they recover. I have been discarding plants that are too weak to recover or that are known scale magnets. There was a bug like this attacking the bushes and hedges this summer so probably the eggs are in my plants from being outside.

Cory

Sorry to hear about your two babies Cory they look like they will recover in time but lose all leaves. Fortunately I have not had to deal with scale this year but the spider mites are a battle. I'm winning without major damage to my trees however as you can see some leaves are spotted. This could be due to cold weather nutrition up take I hope. Spotting its looks more like oil residue from used to treat spider mites I got them extremely early at the very noticeable Of them.

Trace

Hi All, it seems like everyone is back now. Mike, Cory I see you are in for another winter blast. I can imagine you have had enough. We got very cold over night .however the greenhouse went to 49F .it is very. strange trying to try as. MY words Are not Typing Maggy

Cannot figure out what was happening but my words kept appearing long after I typed them and then. They would be erased if I tried. To fix them. . It is doing it again .Maggy

Hi Maggy, that happened to me last night. It took me a couple of hours to do my post. I think they were working on the system. Yes, a big storm is coming but much worse for Mike than me. I don't know where he will put all the snow. It is very sunny today but very cold. I didn't expect the sun. I am getting the delay with typing now too. I think they are trying to fix everything that us wrong if we can hang in there that long.

Cory

Site crashing. Hope you don't get a lot of snow. Poor Mike and Brian. They are getting the worst winter sunny here to .hope this gets fixed soon. Maggy

Yes. I don't know how Brian can take all the extremely cold temperatures for so long. I meant to ask him how cold his greenhouse is getting. I wish my peak ran in the other direction since I am not getting much sun in the greenhouse even on a sunny day like today. I am in my greenhouse now.

I get sunny all day which is surprising as I don't get hardly any in the summer when the leaves are full .i get lots in the front yard. Hope your. Trees recover. Sorry for the typing .it's the site. Maggy

Today I am doing an alcohol with a few drops of Dr. Bonners peppermint oil soap. I can't believe I am still finding bugs. So far only on the orchids. Not too many but they are still around. I am spraying each plant carefully. I go through a lot of alcohol.

You sure have had trouble eradicating them Cory. It has been a struggle but you will be successful eventually..once you get everything outside it might be easier to get rid of them. Maggy

I just used up 6 qts. of alcohol and only did a small section of plants in the greenhouse. It is cheaper than most stuff though. I will have to go out and get more. It takes the nail polish off my fingernails so you would think it could penetrate the scale shell and nymphs themselves and eggs. This is still running slowly.

Cory

That is a lot of alcohol . It should work. Yes ,the site us slow.hopefully they are fixing it. Maggy

Hi Maggy and Cory . I really like this site . I am always logged in which I really like. Posting pics are a breeze . The only thing that I can say that's not that great right now is the actual writing just a bit slow . I posted a pic in bugs 15 I think that its right side up. It took me so long to find my password to my email . I am like Mikey not the greatest techy Lol. Your going to have a lot of drunk scale bugs or one hell of a drunk plant Cory. Sounds like a lot of work . Good luck my friend.

XOXO Brian

Here is one of your pictures. I had very much pasting the houzz url as the box keeps moving around on my page. I finally got it to stick. This is from your houzz ideabook.

Cory

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