Will someone please tell me the brugs that are more cold

temperature sensitive .............. and talk Celsius..........not LOL!

On another post someone mentioned HG............. what are the others?
thanks

kell, the brugs i had in the ground the last two years took a light frost on the ground with minimal leaf damage, frosty and dr suess are very hardy! two springs ago i had a light frost with no damage, and last fall the light frosts hurt a few leaves, is all. i remember monika said versi's on poppysue's thread, can't remember the other one. but your charles and frosties should be fine until you get to freezing for more than a few hours. you should do like the orange farmers, put those smudge pots around....

Cypress Gardens didn't like the cold one little bit!! Rosamond/Pink Beauty took it like a champ though!!

The ones that got cold damage for me were - HG, Ecuador Pink, Milk n Honey, Versi Peach, Whiskers .... hmmmm.... I think that's it. That's without a frost on them - just cold temps.

candida flore plena didn't like it, Apricot Queen, Kurpark was iffy, Klerxx variegata. These showed stress in the high 30sF but with wind to go with it.

Is this considered frost? it has been on some of my brugs that are out in the open for the last 2 mornings.

and this

and no comments please........I am not retarded..... i just never cared before!!!!

ms kell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! was it 32 degrees or less? i can't tell from your pics but i would be amazed.

no it was not but if felt like it!! Tom dragged me to a Tom Petty OUTSIDE concert last night and I froze. I even had a blanket on my lap. He took pity on me though and we left at about 10:30. I am too old for this!!

You can't see that white stuff on the leaves???

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Kell, heavy dew and frost are hard to tell apart. The leaves after a frost are usually black, and like Arlene said, the temp must fall below 32*F(0*C)

tom petty, went to high school with him. he had a band called mudcrutch. and he was the ugliest boy i have EVER seen....his dad lives about 10-12 miles from here, can't remember though i think he might have died.
ms kell, i get cold like that in the 50s around here, lol.

I'll take 50's, it's going into the 30's this weekend. I'm digging like crazy!!

we do have heavy dew, everything is so wet in the morning. But this white stuff is new this week. no black leave yet.......all my annuals are still great.........covered with blooms. I was just wonderng about that white stuff...... it looks like frost to me.

Kell, you're serious right?
The thinner leaved annuals will show it first - they get that 'I've been put in the wrong part of the fridge' look. Opaquey and dark. impatiens, I would think would be one of the first to show it.. I think the cells get blasted.
And maybe the white look is just the heavy morning dew getting caught on the hairier leaves of the brugs.

Miss Kell - Believe me ... you'll know if you have a heavy frost :) This used to be a double white candida

Oh my - I guess that says it all ~~

LOL I know what a plant looks like after a coldnight........... buttttttttttttttt ............... that white stuff looks and feels like frost!!! I was just trying to figure out what it was if not frost. it was 44 degrees last night. I thought I read the other day on one of the posts that frost was 38 degrees and freezing was 32?

I swear my yard is colder than the surrounding ones.

Well, if it feels like frost then it probably is frost - then bring them in or toss some blankets over them. Is that possible? Or do you have to tarp your whole yard?

Kell, get a thermometer and put it in your garden somewhere and check it. That's the best way. I have them in the garage, wine cellar, plasticed in sanguinea room, GH.

The sangs can take a bit of frost no problem.
0 degrees Celcius = frost
32 degrees Faren. = 0 degrees Celcius.

We had spots of frost in the yard the last 2 nights. Didn't touch the brugs, castor beans or any of the tropicals. Unfortunately, I put a sheet over some good brugs I haven't brought in yet and broke the top of one. Should have left it alone.

Now it's warming up again and the rains will come so no worries about frost for a while.

LOL...........buy a thermometer........... I will!!!

I have plants all over my yard Liz. I hope my clamps come so we can finish the GH if you can call it that..........LOL.

I also bought some of that frost blanket stuff! It should be here today or tomorrow!

I am just being paranoid! My plants are still blooming like crazy.

Kell - buy a min/max thermometer - it'll show you the lowest temps it went down to. If nothing else will make you paranoid, that will. LOL

Liz, you beat me to it!! I was going to suggest that!! Kell, sometimes heavy dew that is almost at the frost point is hard to tell from frost till the sun comes up and then you see damage. Sometimes the brugs that have had a light frost won't have bad damage, it looks more like sunburn like they get in spring when we bring them out for the first time.(did that make sense?) If it's windy or cloudy, there is less chance of frost.

http://www.lee-county.com/extensionservices/horticulturearchive/airtemperaturesandfrost.htm ........found this, maybe it will be helpful to some of you.

"eyes"

Eyes, good link. I was going to say that up here in good old Iowa, we can easily get frost before a 32 degree temp is met. I'm guessing that most often a light frost will hit us at about 37-38 degrees. Lots of times it will frost down on our flat ground where our orchard is, but not up around the house that has protections from the wind by trees. It is entirely possible to get that frost before the temps get to 32, but at 32 and below I then worry about frozen plant material. Both are bad for the flowers, but most seem to make it past that light frost here. It is something I don't have to worry about now. We went to 25 or 26 last night and 20 tonight. Wish they would quit changing the forecast.

Kell, we had frost here over the hill. I am wondering about my brugs that are rooted and in gallon to 5 gallon
pots. Will they be O.K. as long as the frost doesn't hit them?

brrrrrrrrrrrr.....it's 43 here now...I don't want to even think of that cold yet!! Bless your heart, stay warm!!

"eyes"

you guys make me feel cold and it's in the 80's here

I was wondering if the frost and cold will kill spider
mites?

66 degrees last night and it was so awsome. Will be cooler tonight with a only a high of 50 friday or saturday afternoon. Thats a little to cool but it will warm back of to 70's next week here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Oh gee,it was 20 degrees out when I went to work this morning,and now there is lake effect predicted....1 inch an hour starting tomorrow...

Kell,that's not celsius

Gee ,I pity you guys with all that warm...........

That's one inch of what CC? Snow? Rain? I'm not sure I know what lake effect is.

Probably SNOW Liz!

Sorry had wrong name in there.

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SSSSNNNNOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

lake effect is thanks to the Great Lakes,when cold winds blow over the warm lakes ,the moisture is picked up and snow(or rain if its warm enough)is formed,bands of snow ,and I mean HEAVY snow )hit usually south and west of the lakes.

Its so weird too,you can be driving along and the roads are dry,you then hit a wall of snow,zero visability,for as little as a mile up to 60 or more miles(depending on the wind direction) and then drive right out of it onto dry roads.....

I can't believe it. I was goimg to go buy the min/max thermometer (at a regular hardware store???) tonight then I remembered my car is in the shop AGAIN!! 2 days ago they said I had a bad water pump and when I drove it the next day it was obviously sicker then when I brought it in, and now they tell me for $1,500 they have fix my cracked head gasket!!! I think I have been taken!!!

What temp did it go down to, Jerodsmom?? What makes you think you had a frost??

I heard what you are saying to Brugie.. see I am not as nuts as you all think!! Or Brugie is as nuts as I am.....

Shirley did you get any of that snow I have been seeing on the weather channel?

CC you need to move down here. I have a spare room (for the plants to).

It was a little chilly here today only about 75 with a breeze blowing, brrr, I am not ready for the the winter.

Sis in Law wants us to come spend Christmas in PA! Yea like that is gonna happen!!!

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LOL

Lake effect - so that's the thing that causes all the highway pileups?
Dee - only 75? No - I won't say it - Kell has a Pink term for it. What was that Kell???

Dee, better bring a big sweater when you come here, it's 50 and falling right now.(that's 10*C to Kell)

Dee, no snow here other than flurries, but now our 6 PM weatherman says a low of 17 tonight. 16 is the record for this date. At least they are saying that El Nino will make the midwest warmer and dryer for the winter, with southern states getting more moisture than normal and the East is to have more storms than usual. I know that isn't good news for you all, but I'm happy with our part of it. Just hope it doesn't change for us.

Patricia, spider mites don't like cold and wet. They might go away for a while anyway, but the blasted little creatures seem to find their way back when conditions are right for them.

Irish, wish you could send some of your warm weather up this way. I'd sure do a happy dance.