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 Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? 
#6448991 - 01/11/07 02:13 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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The forecast today is predicting temperatures in the mid 20's over the next couple of nights and I've got pedro's, poppies, pereskiopsis, and brugmansia that are outside and exposed.
I don't know which plants I should be worried about, or what to do with them to keep them from being harmed by frost. I've got limited space inside and if I brought them in today they'd have to stay there with little or no sunlight until I got back home from a trip (sunday at the latest).
Can anyone give some advice for me? I've got until this evening to prepare.
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 Re: Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? [Re: Konnrade]
#6449187 - 01/11/07 02:58 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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all but the poppies will likely die unless you bring them in.
i would say MORE than likely
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Re: Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? [Re: Mitchnast]
#6449215 - 01/11/07 03:06 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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The pedros might not. Bring them in anyway, it's not worth the risk.
Good to hear that the poppies won't. Didn't know that, but I do know that you don't want to be moving them around.
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Re: Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? [Re: Koala Koolio]
#6449278 - 01/11/07 03:23 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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im not saying the poppies WONT die, but they CAN be frozen and then thaw and live, they MIGHT lose alot of foliage.
but if you MOVE them, especially from the ground, they will die for certain.
the pedro can witstand a low temp, but i don't know about sustained lows or lows dropping sigificantly below the threshold of freezing. 20f seems a little low, 19.4 is the absolute lowest a pedro can survive, but thats not for a sustained time. scaring would occur IF it survives a all.
pedros and brugs are exceptionally good at surviving transplantation tho
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Re: Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? [Re: Konnrade]
#6449294 - 01/11/07 03:30 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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If you can, bring those things in.
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Re: Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? [Re: Konnrade]
#6449391 - 01/11/07 03:57 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah... the hell with risking it. Everything is coming inside except for the one brugmansia that is planted in the ground. Everything else is in pots. I'll just take them into my east-facing bedroom and leave them there while I'm gone with the windowshade open so they get lots of morning sun through the nice picture window. That should do the trick.
I'll lay a trashbag on the carpet and just leave them all on the floor.
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Re: Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? [Re: Konnrade]
#6449536 - 01/11/07 04:26 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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say goodbye to your brug.
of all the plants mentioned, it is the WORST in the cold.
it will freeze at the freezing mark. and then be dead.
but if you yanked it out of the ground, threw it in a bucket, in a closet, for a month. it would probably bounce back just fine.
you could probably saw it off at the ground and then jam it into a pot of dirt and in a month it would be putting on new growth.
all that and it cant take the cold...
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Re: Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? [Re: Mitchnast]
#6449701 - 01/11/07 05:15 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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I just rooted the poor thing in the ground last week. It's probably not even had time to get used to being in soil.
The temperatures here may not drop significantly below freezing. Mid 20's was the lowest predicted temperature for this region and it may not be that cold here as long as there is cloud cover. If need be, I'll put plastic over the outdoor brug to ward off frost.
This is seriously strange. In my area, freezing temperatures are nearly non-existant. I'm at low elevation in a Mediterranean climate. I never even thought I'd have to worry about frost. I'm in climate zone 9, after all. Sure it can freeze, but it never has.
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Re: Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? [Re: Konnrade]
#6450553 - 01/11/07 09:36 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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say, that brug, it wouldnt happen to be....
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Re: Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? [Re: Mitchnast]
#6450613 - 01/11/07 10:01 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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bring em in if there is doubt. I just got an 8 bulb 4' T% for my cacti. Pereskiopsis love T5!!!
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Re: Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? [Re: Konnrade]
#6451100 - 01/12/07 03:09 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Konnrade said:
This is seriously strange. In my area, freezing temperatures are nearly non-existant.
I always pictured you being somewhere near Cali, right now my part of the midwest is nice and toasty. It's been near 20F over the average for this time of year for the last couple of moons.
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Re: Freezing temperatures predicted... what to do? [Re: Mitchnast]
#6451454 - 01/12/07 08:01 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mitchnast said:
say, that brug, it wouldnt happen to be....
Why yes, it would.
I had enough room to plant 3 of it's siblings, as well. If Jack Frost gets it, It can be replaced (thankfully)
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