Repotting in 90+ temps
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Bc, or Blc Daffodil, last repotted in 1987. Should I repot it?
Comments (7)Thanks for your comments and since it's working great, I have intention of fixing it. What prompted me to do this post was the Xmas plant I brought home from our annual Xmas party. It's a Pot Red Crab 'Kuau Miau' AM/AOS from Kawamoto. It's in a 4" pot with bark and has a bunch of roots outside the pot. The roots took a major beating from the travel but it will reform them since it's on that course. Point is that repotting is only essential to plants that require the inside of the pot for survival. If there are no roots outside the pot and the inside is unhealthy, you have a problem. If on the other hand there is a plethora of roots outside the pot, the plant no longer needs a healthy interior of the pot and will grow quite nicely with the outside roots. This plat is in healthy new bark yet it has lots of outside roots. I plan to just put it in a empty larger pot and never repot it or replace the bark. End of story. 27 years from now it may well look like the Daffodil and get there with a minimum of work other than proper light, temp, water and nutrient. I make a big point of this when I give my Orchids 101 lectures at our show. Give them good conditions and otherwise let them do their thing. Nick...See MoreHigh temps and pond temps....
Comments (3)My pond runs very cool. It is deep, slightly shaded, and about half covered with hyacinths. I think the fact that it is deeply dug into the earth limits the pond temperature considerably. I actually built a homemade solar collector to warm the water. With the collector running during the daylight hours my pond never gets over 75 degrees even during one of our hot spells, which means several days in a row of air temperatures over 100 here in southern Oregon. I have had to limit the plant coverage (mostly hyacinths) to about 50% to get the pond to stay as warm as it does. From my experiences I have drawn two conclusions. First, intimacy of contact with the soil is a huge factor. Ponds that sit above the ground will be warmer than one that is dug deeply into the earth. The pond can't get much warmer than the soil it sits in. Second, plant coverage can reduce pond temperatures considerably, especially with plants like hyacinths that hold their leaf surfaces out of contact with the water. The raised leaf surfaces absorb the heat without transferring it to the pond like the flat leaves of waterlilies or duckweed would....See MoreTemp in upper 90s, is it too hot to spray for BS?
Comments (14)Thanks for all the advice. I started my BS treatment and prevention about one month ago with Mancozeb but went about 2 1/2-3 weeks without spraying because of constant rain. Then last week the infuse product. I saw a posting where someone wrote that they sprayed with a rain forecast and it was alright ...the product would still be ok as long as contact for more than few hours. Well...learned my lesson about skipping BS treatments because of rain because now I am dealing with BS! I usually try to spray about every 7-10 days because it is so humid in my area in the summer. Next year I am going to try an early program with my spraying, not wait until all leaves are out and roses blooming. I will water well tonight and spray early am....See MoreNewbies, this is what 80-90 degree temps will do to those seeds
Comments (5)Doris, in no rush for the shovel, still got at least 5 weeks to go before I can safely say I won't get a killing frost. Safe plant out date is Memorial day, the old date May 31st. floodhelast, I still haven't got my sunflowers out yet. they go out Tuesday along with the rest of the cosmos. Tons of morning glory and sweet pea to go out still on Thursday and the rest of the marigolds and zinnias as well. Just hope there are no repeats of last year in May. low and mid 20's 3 nights in a row, did some damage to the tender seedlings. Lost a few containers of cosmos, zinnia and dahlias. had to sow more of those. When I'm done on Thursday night expect to have put out more than 200 more containers. Not all for me though, shared project with several people and a extras for my annual spring plant swap. Fran...See Moretapla (mid-Michigan, USDA z5b-6a)
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