Lost everything. Looking for Canadian source for replacement citrus
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Comments (36)Hey Blondboy- I have found with just one layer of solar pool cover over my glass greenhouse, the sunlight is barely cut down at all. I have geraniums blooming inside, no internodal stretch, in fact have a succulant I've owned for 5 years flowering profusely for the very first time. From a base temperature of 50* (from small eclectric heater) the greenhouse warms up to above 85* everyday that we have sun. It would get much warmer but I have an automatic roof vent in the ridgeline (my building is quite tall) Even on cloudy days it will get 60-65* inside. It didn't get that warm on cloudy days last year, without the pool cover and lost its' heat very quickly once the sun started to slide down the western sky. Now that heat is held many hours after dark until the heater finally needs to come on for my setpoint of 50*. I don't know how many mil the pool covers are but they are quite a heavy gauge, fairly stiff to handle. One thing I've also done which I neglected to mention in other posts, is to seal around every window with a removable caulking to seal out drafts. This caulking is available at HD. It's clear and sets up very flexible and strips off very easily in the spring. All my windows on the north side and east/west endwalls can be opened in the spring for ventilation, in addition to doors in both endwalls as well. I've put weatherstripping in the doors and rolled up a piece of burlap to act as a draft dodger on the floor. The only downside of the strippable caulking is that the fumes right after applying it are HORRENDUS! Could get you higher than a kite! :) I caulk everything while the weather is still fairly mild so I can leave the doors open for a couple days to air the place out. Hasn't seemed to hurt any plants....See MoreCanadian Growing Citrus in California
Comments (36)It wouldn't hurt to add a slow release, Canuck. I do, I use Osmocote Plus on top of watering in FP. I don't use FP with every watering, just because I don't always have time to mix it up, but many of us, especially in the summer, use a time release product as well. And I agree, so nice to take advantage of our wonderful California weather! I do love Vancouver, grew up off and on there all my young life. My entire family is from Canada, but I was born in California. Beautiful place, I especially love Vancouver Island, Victoria, and one of my most favorite places to go as a kid was Queen Elizabeth Park, especially when the roses were in bloom. Patty S....See MoreI lost EVERYTHING!
Comments (29)Its absolutely amazing, emagin! In 4 days I have a little forest of African daisies, swan river daisies, and alyssum! The clear plastic "dome" on the plug tray is all steamed up, and I was shoving the tray around, but wasnt even looking for anything since they had just been put in, when I noticed something looked "funny," so I took off the top and nearly fell over when I saw them. And with the cold weather weve had, it hasnt even been very warm in the house. Now Im hoping they dont ALL come up that fast. And, no, I guess they cant see the weather outside! They have no idea what theyve been born into! But theyre my babies, so Ill just have to take care of them. And, cnetter, I love your cold frame too! LOL Could I rent a little corner of it? Seriously, literally every square foot of my yard is taken up for something or other. As much as Id like to have a cold frame, theres no possibility of it. Ive decided Im going to just plant them up into something largerI save the plastic strawberry boxesand space them out far enough that Ill be able to pull them apart when they can be planted out, even without having them in individual plug cells. At least it looks like I wont have to buy too many annuals this year! And most of them are perennials, so as soon as they have a couple true leaves, I can put them into small pots and keep them outside. I think most of the perennials will take a couple weeks to germinate. The tomatoes and eggplants Ill have to make room for inside with the annuals. What have I gotten myself into! (You all know Im having fun!) Id say theres a chance your trees will be ok, emagin. But I bet the Arbor Day Foundation will replace them anyway. Hope you have room for a double order! I got up to 40 degrees here in Thornton this afternoon, so I went out and took another cruise around the yard, and, after hearing you story about the flowers, cnet, I decided to cut my couple daffodils that were bent over, and I brought them in along with a couple small yellow hyacinths that had broken, and theyre now sitting right next to me here. I dont think Ill ever fully believe how plants can go from looking TOTALLY frozen and limp and destroyed, to all perky and looking as if nothing had ever happened in just a few hours. Nature is amazing! As near as I can tell, absolutely nothing in my yard was damaged by the cold or ice. I hope the rest of you fared as well. By the way, emagin, when I was a kid, my parents always hid the eggs and baskets in the house. And we always had the whole house completely torn apart in looking for them! And then there would always be one or two (real) eggs that we couldnt find, and a few weeks later somebody would "accidentally" run into them! We didnt eat "those" eggs, of course! Then, one time when I was in high school, I decided turnabout was fair play, so I bought a BIG basket, and put an even bigger bow on it, and filled it with all kinds of Easter candy and kept it hidden in my closet until Saturday night. Then, when my parents went to sleep, I quietly snuck it out and put it in the middle of the dining room table. On Easter morning, when my parents got up, my mother went into the dining room first and saw it and freaked out! She thought somebody had broken into the house! Im not sure if she thought it was the Easter bunny or not, but since when do people break into houses to BRING things! LOL And a good time was had by all! Lilacs of May, how are your plants? Skybird...See MoreCitrus you will definitely replace
Comments (15)those would certainly be worth replacing. ;you must have a large family. As much as I'm lusting after several of your cultivars, I simply couldn't consume all that fruit. I saw a NZ lemonade at the nursery and wanted to replace b/c fruit is so delicious, but then I saw the thorns, 1.5" long, it hurt just to think about it. I read somewhere that NZ lemonade s/b thornless and it only has the wicked thorns if the rootstock dominates, IOW, the graft isn't successful. I also read that it DOES have the wicked thorns, so I don't know which info is correct. OT, I found a recipe for grapefruit pound cake. Doesn't that sound like fun? I will have to try it, must be made w/ fresh gf juice, so not till late fall.......See Moreevdesert 9B Indio, CA
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