Emptying the Cold Building

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Emptying the Cold Building

Post by lucky1 » Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:58 pm

Gorgeous day today. colder inside than out :lol:
So out they go...for good!

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And look at this Washy filifera spear! :shock:
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Building's about half empty.
More tomorrow.
And look at the growth on these Chinese Poppies already...warm soil :clown:

Edit:
BRAIN FART...FORGOT POPPY PIC :roll:
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Post by TimMAz6 » Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:13 pm

'out for good'? You are brave Barb........ever since YOU planted those palms outside we have been cold here on the east coast......look what I came home to today after I picked up my daughter from swim practice.....it was suppose to be rain......never heard of white rain before....LOL.

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Post by CTPalm » Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:19 pm

Tim - I know I'm getting jealous too. We may get up to a foot of snow here on the east coast Friday!! I hope it's an April fools joke and we just get rain!!
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Post by TerdalFarm » Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:36 pm

Nice, Barb!
I brought everything out a couple of weeks ago--then had to bring most back in. Probably all back outside tomorrow, hopefully for good. My back hurts! --Erik

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Post by F1aReD » Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:36 pm

Looks awesome Barb! How many plants do you have?

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Post by hardyjim » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:27 am

Looks great Barb

I am moving a bunch of my palms outside today,mostly Trachys and
other cold hardy palms-least of which are the Filabustas,only
2 of those so,no prob to bring them in if it gets below 25F.

I don't believe we will see that though.

I really want to get the Bananas,Brugs etc in but I am being cautious this year-
last year everything was in the ground......
the high temp last April 1 was 90F.....no fooling!
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Post by Okanagan desert-palms » Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:57 am

Barb great to see those plants outside. I think the threat of a hard frost has passed. They should be safe.


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Post by Cameron_z6a_N.S. » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:02 pm

Nice plants, Barb!

Tim, we just got that snow and hail, now it's heavy rain. Pure hell ! :evil:
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Post by TerdalFarm » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:05 pm

Sorry!
We could sure use the rain; we are officially in "severe drought" status.
But: all palms, even the Veitchia seedlings, are outside. :D
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Post by BILL MA » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:57 pm

Looking good Barb!

Gotta love the sun, as you can see from Tim we got some white stuff with a bunch of rain. 100 trachies covered in snow priceless :roll: Good thing it's gone as fast as it came. The rain was nice even though it was cold. Sunny and 50's for the weekend, maybe there wrong and it will be 60's that would be nice!

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Post by lucky1 » Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:33 pm

Well, I should'a known...something about peeing into the wind? :lol: :lol: :lol:

No sooner was everything out, it got cold again, cold cold northwest wind, snow levels just above my place last night.
High today of only 9C 48F, lows near freezing the next three days.

Fortunately we got rain last night to break the drought...BUT not enough sun today to warm the plant roots, let alone the foliage.
Going to haul the bamboo palm, CIDP and the 5' grapefruit tree (no pic) back inside.
There should be an odometer on that floor dolly :lol:

That "white rain" must've been a shock in MA for Tim and Bill!
100 palms covered in snow must look gorgeous...sort of.
Tim's GH can only handle another inch of snow, right? :wink:
Looking at the pool water makes me shiver...we pulled the winter tarp out of the pool yesterday, it shredded at the deep end, so you can imagine what the bottom looks like. Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts :lol: :lol:

Paul, let's hope you didn't get that foot of snow!

Erik...try some plant casters or a floor dolly, a tad easier on the back.
Except over your step.
Nice to hear your Veitchia seedlings are popped, how about some pics over in Germination?

F1aReD (Andy??? sorry) Haven't counted lately but there are a lot more in the house & basement than in the cold building.
Too many to haul in and out and in and out this time of year :evil:

Jim, I remember your hot April from last year.
I think we'd all be happy with a warm one.
The Bananas and Brugs must be hurtin' by now and ready to go out...are they on the deck or in basement?

John, yup, hard frost I think is gone.
But the risk of a soft one :lol: :lol: isn't fun.
Crap...I'm still wearing longjohns to work outdoors in this cold wind, a Siberian outflow?
You're lucky you don't get these winds where you are. Wanna trade?

Cameron, that's unseasonably cold for you folks!

Off to haul the buggers inside again...never anybody around when that needs doing.
:evil:

Here's to a fabulous NEXT WEEK for everyone...coz this one's shot!
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Post by sidpook » Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:54 pm

Can't wait for the warmth! The sky looks springlike and so do the flowers and trees blooming, but the air says otherwise. I wanna uncover my musas .... :(
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Post by lucky1 » Sat Apr 02, 2011 3:01 pm

wanna uncover my musas
Go ahead...just leave a heater running :lol: :lol:

Man...when warmth finally arrives for all of us, we're going to be hard to live with. :D :D :D
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Post by TimMAz6 » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:05 pm

Hi Barb,

I hate dragging in/out the plants every night......that gets old real quick. We are getting warmer now....explains why your getting colder!

The pool water always looks lots better with a big dose of chlorine! Gotta love that stuff.

The greenhouse is falling apart......nothing a roll of duct tape won't solve! I may actually remove the poly film tomorrow........my biggest concern is that it will fry my plants on a sunny, calm day if the sides fall down.
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Post by wxman » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:32 pm

Looks good. Soon summer will be here for good. :) Or at least til fall.
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Post by TerdalFarm » Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:05 pm

Barb,
I hear you. It has been in and out the last few weeks.
I chickened out on the Veitchia; they are back in under the grow light where they are happy.
We have upper 30s F for a low coming Tuesday morning, but only a few der palms tenwill make the trip back in Monday:
I started that new weekend job ("bedding plant attendant") and my back is killing me from lifting flats of annuals all day.
But: summer will be here soon. I am thoroughly sunburned today, and tomorrow will water all day with sun, strong winds and highs in the 80s.
Our pool looks awful, too. We'll drain it and scrub the heck out of it, then re-fill with tap water. The salt water machine is on the fritz and so needs repair/replacement. Didn't someone once call a pool a hole in the ground you fill with money?
Oh, wait--that's a planting hole for palm trees. :lol:

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Post by lucky1 » Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:00 pm

I'm ready to use chlorine on my fungus gnats.... :twisted:

Warmth....warmth....it's gotta be somewhere near here :lol:
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Post by sidpook » Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:49 am

BILL MA wrote:Looking good Barb!

Gotta love the sun, as you can see from Tim we got some white stuff with a bunch of rain. 100 trachies covered in snow priceless :roll: Good thing it's gone as fast as it came. The rain was nice even though it was cold. Sunny and 50's for the weekend, maybe there wrong and it will be 60's that would be nice!

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Did ya take a pic of that!?
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