Winter Insanity
Karen R. (9B SF Bay Area)
5 years ago
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J&P and the Insane Rose Quest
Comments (19)J&P doesn't have everything available on their website, which is why I was wondering if they are just getting rid of what they have left before shutting the site down. And if that's the case, of course they wouldn't say that to customers, because they want to sell out their stock. But the company has already folded, so apparently nurseries who have been buying wholesale roses from them (at least in my area), are having a shortage on J&P raised roses for this coming spring. And until they find another wholesaler to get them from, it will be an issue. As far as Cool Roses is concerned, they don't seem to be interested in selling anything to me, since every time I've contacted them about buying something they haven't responded. Because of this experience, I don't really feel motivated to ask them about Black Magic, but if any of you have had good experiences with them, I'd be open to your advice on how to get a hold of them. To answer the question of how cold it gets here, it can get down into the teens, below freezing. The thing about it, is that the extreme cold usually doesn't last more than a couple weeks, then it gets a little warmer. We might have two or three of these extreme cold increments during the winter. So it's not as bad as like Minnesota or something, not at all, but it does get cold enough that the roses stay dormant about five months. But I never have to bury established plants or anything like that, I just mulch them and let them be until the spring....See MoreAnother Albuquerque Question: Dec/Jan Planting?
Comments (3)In Albuquerque, winter planting is fine for all but some heat-loving plants. Commercial landscaping goes on year-round in Albuquerque, as opposed to colder places like Denver or Taos. This issue is a matter of frozen soil (pretty rare here, but worthless to plant in when it happens!), soil temperatures, air temperatures (Abq has many more hours above 32F than below 32F in the coldest month), climate (ours is fairly stable, with a few big swings from warm to cold, but nothing like the great plains), and the actual plant species in question. Landscape plants that are warm season / prefer to grow in hotter weather like cacti, live oak, desert willow or mesquite, might have some problems if not done VERY carefully in cold weather. Cool season plants are different, though. They often prefer Dec-Jan planting far over being planted in June. Some plants that do well here w/ winter planting are the native and adapted junipers, pines, deciduous oaks, lavender, and Artemisia spp. Even some yuccas, Nolina, etc. take to winter planting just fine. Frost at night for several hours hurts dormant, new plantings very little, unless they are tender ones that often won't like it here, anyway. Vegetables need to have a certain soil temperature to get growing and producing, though again, cool season vegetables do fine when the soil gets into the 40's F---think February or March in Abq for peas, lettuce, carrots and the like. Beans and corn really need to be planted once frost danger is mostly past (avg March 30-April 15 in Abq), while tomatoes, melons, etc need no frost and lots of warmth (mid April to early May). I bet the Bernalillo County extension or the NMSU website have more info. BTW, Albuq statistically has its coldest weather from mid-Dec to mid-Jan, then we start warming, while most of the US mid-section (Colo, Okla, Iowa, etc) often keeps cooling until they get their coldeset weather in early February....See Moreinsane bill with new heat pump system.. help please! setbacks, et
Comments (24)I hadn't looked at the info for that thermostat until just now. Wow. That really is the next generation (web connectable, controls every equipment permutation, wireless sensors). Fair warning that I know enough to be dangerous, so take that into account when reading the rest of this. The link below shows the install manual. Pages 19-20 explain some of the backup heat options/settings (although not in as much detail regarding settings as the manuals for the Vision Pro series). I'd let the installer make any changes, but this may help you get a little better informed about the options- or it may just confuse things worse. The adaptive intelligent recovery (set 'on'), not having too big a setback due to the HP system, the backup heat differential setting, and the backup heat upstage timer setting look to be the key settings to minimize how much your backup heat gets used. As for the register air temperature, the important thing is the temperature differential between the room and the air coming out. For example, it was 32F outside at my house last night, my house was holding at 68F, and the air coming out of a register at the end of a branch of my HVAC was 81F. For my system, a 13F differential is OK (not great), but it's also right above the outdoor temperature where my heat pump is locked out and the gas furnace comes on. As the outdoor temperature rises into the upper 30's, the register air temperature rises to 88F or higher. You want to know what this temperature differential is, with just the HP running (no strips) to tell whether the HP is doing its job. Low temperature differential means the charge is off or something else is going on. I have a BBQ/oven temperature probe that's stuck in the register in my laundry room (when I'm not using it for BBQ). After my system lost most of its refrigerant 18 mo.s ago, I started watching to get an idea if it was happening again. It looks like you could add sensor(s) to your super-snazzy Honeywell and it could measure this and warn you all by itself. Here is a link that might be useful: Honeywell Prestige stat install manual...See MoreFire or Flood?
Comments (26)Easy to say you don't care for "red necks". I don't know what that term means to some people. I guess you may think it means racially or life style intolerant, but what it means to those of us who may use the term, has nothing to do with that. It was red necks....by far for the most part, who risked their own lives to bring their skiffs or bass boats from Louisiana, Arkansas, all over Texas and other places as well, I am sure, and recued thousands of people in this flood. I know of two of them (that came to help) drowned. It was red necks that got us out of our flooded house, and another boat load of red necks who helped rescue my horses. Red necks did this with no regard to what ethnicity or sexual persuasion people were. It is easy to dismiss people with a narrow minded view, but, I guess that is to be expected, if you don't really know red necks....See More
Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
5 years agoKaren, what did you order?
Maybe Olivia ?
I just ordered White Pet lol
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Ann9BNCalif
5 years agoHi Karen - I sympathize with your winter blues! I'm arranging for some of my roses to go to new homes which allows me to plant the roses that are sitting in pots now. A rose society is taking at least five so it's got me excited because I was wondering where to re-home these roses. I'm glad you're getting Tahitian Sunset! I enabled BenT in Texas and he seems happy with it in his very hot climate.
Ann
2018 Tahitian Sunset
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Lisa Adams
5 years agoGreat thread, Karen! You all have chosen some gorgeous roses.
Kristine, I just know you’re going to love both ‘The Faun’ and ‘White Pet’! I sure do. I’m late for “coffee time”, but I’ll try to take a picture of my White Pet this afternoon. I noticed yesterday that it was beginning to bloom again. Lisa
Oh well, what’s a few more minutes? Lisa
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noseometer...(7A, SZ10, Albuquerque)
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5 years agoKaren R. (9B SF Bay Area) thanked sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
5 years agoThanks Ann. I'll try it with Google oh, but now I just tried it with my phone so let's see what happens there.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoKaren R. (9B SF Bay Area) thanked Kristine LeGault 8a pnwVaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
5 years agoKaren R. (9B SF Bay Area)
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoOh wow, it's worked... thank you Ann, I've been following your instructions and it took me some time to figure it all out... I didn't even know I had a Google Photos account... let me see if this posts...
oh good... I don't know why I didn't pick 4 roses but never mind..
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