Winter roses in fl
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What constitutes a winter rest in S FL?
Comments (5)Ken Ny. Welcome to south Fla. DON'T cover anything with plastic!!!! Always use sheets or light blankets. Plastic transfers the cold to the leaves,it doesnt protect them! It will cause more damage. Always you sheets or light blankets, IF you feel you need to protect something to big to move, or that is in the ground. And then you just have to cover the top of the plant. You can wrap them totally for a day or two, but it is a lot of work, and the cold usually only hurts the tops of plants. You dont have to 'rest' your plants. Let them do what they do during our 'winter'. Maybe lighten up on the water a bit,and dont fertilizer anything, that's a bout it. We have 2 seasons here in south Fla., 'Pre summer' and Summer :) I am in Ft.Laud. I grow all the things you have mentioned. All are outside, my frangipani is a huge tree in the ground. By now yours is probably covered with 'rust' on the underside of the leaves...right? And dropping all its leaves...right? They all do it. It isn't worth spraying to try and keep the leaves on it. That tree DOES goes dormant, and then one day in 'spring' you will get a flower stem, if it is big/old enough to bloom, or you'll get new leaves, and that will tell you it is spring! and time to water and feed again. You dont have to much more than that to them. If you get a freeze warning and it is small enough, you can bring it inside, or move it close to the house, under your patio. Thats all you need to do, and that is optional. It can handle very low 40's high 30's for a few nights. The Stapelias, will put up with the low 40's, if you have only a few, you can throw a sheet over them also if we get a freeze warning, or bring them inside. I dont have a huge collection of Stapelias anymore, but my collection is to big to bring in for 1-2 days of low 40's, high 30's, so I throw a sheet on them, and they do just fine. My Euphorbias are all the Thai Giant Crown of Thorns and in the ground,so I cant bring them in either. But they are VERY tough plants, but if yours are the very watery/fleshy type and you can bring them in on a cold night, do it. Or cover them, it is only a few hours of cold that you need to protect them from. The sheet or light blanket keeps the cold off the plants, and you should see my yard, and others around me, when we get a freeze warning, their are sheets all over sensitive plants, people tying to protect them from freeze burn. It is a sight to see. You'll find that you can leave your plants outside 99.9% of the time. And only a few certain plant go 'dormant'. The rest just slow down growing, and all you do is lighten up on the water, fertilizer, and just wait for our spring. My adeniums are in bloom right now. They grow and bloom in the winter. If yuo can call our winter a real winter. We get like 4 days of real cold weather in January. Thats about it. Ejoy your new seasons:)...See MoreTampa Fl Winter
Comments (2)Welcome Ryan!! You'll enjoy it here...Lots of GREAT people with lots of GREAT information. Do as topher says, but copy the "html" code and paste it in your message..There are 4 different codes under the picture after you download it...Preview your message and Submit. Hope this helps you out and don't be afraid to ask for help!! BTW, my sister in law and her hubby live in Tampa...Been there many times :) knotz :)...See MoreWinter vegetable crops in the Gainesville, FL area
Comments (19)Homestead is on another planet it may seem to you. Last time I was there long ago there were large Mango trees being stood back up and their root systems tucked back into the Ditch Witched trenches they ever pulled out of. Then, the Marl rubble was pushed back over the roots, WHAT!!! That area is underlaid by an ancient sea bed, ( very large flat rock surface) that can be farmed hydroponically if the Marl (rock) is pulverized to rubble and used as the growing medium. They laid out trenches in a grid pattern for trees creating the grid with Ditch Witches and planting at trench intersections. I also saw an example of growing tomatoes where the rubble created somehow was piled up in about 3' wide by 1' high windrows, a drip tape layer down the middle, plastic mulch applied and then rebar driven into the rock to be used in the trellising system for plant support. Then the transplants were planted through the plastic. Bizzare! All I remember about Belle Glade is it's being a very large veggie production area. Have fun!...See MoreFL winter do you stop feeding roses ?
Comments (20)Roses can withstand freezing temperatures down to about 28 degrees with little to no damage. It also matters what the duration of the freeze is. If it's getting down to 26 degrees but only for an hour or two at night before the temps begin to rise above freezing again then they usually will not sustain much damage. You're not dealing with days, and sometimes weeks, of below freezing temps the way we do up North. I still believe that if your roses are actively growing you can fertilize them no matter what time of year it is. If they are growing they are using up nutrients and those will need to be replaced. As others have stated, you should probably stop feeding them, or slow down/curtail feeding them, more so in the summer when they slow down rather than in the winter when it is cool enough for them to put on new growth....See Morestrawchicago z5
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