We had our first frost of the year last night. The low got down to around 30. The windows on my truck didn't freeze but the body of it did have ice on it. I didn't think it hurt the plants but I found out differently when I got home from work today. Everything that got left out is history!
Last night was also my first night heating the gh with gas. I went out and checked it at 5:30 this morning and it was around 50 inside and that's on the lowest setting.
It had to happen sooner or later
Oh my!!!!! So all your beautiful brugs were destroyed?
Hopefully they were all in the ground. If so, they should all come back. At least my one that is planted in the ground has come back for the past 3 yrs., and it has gotten down as low as 17 deg.
You should still be able to get cuttings from them all especially the trunks. One night of 30º should'nt have hurt the main plant.
Last year I took last minute trunk cuttings when they had been out for a few nights with temps in the high 20's -low 30's.
My GH was set at 50 degrees too but they are fine...I hope your's will be salvagable...now Im worried about mine :( Good luck David, what a disappointment...did you lose them all that were in the greenhouse? If you've sent mine already, I'll send them back to you David???
We only got down to 40 so far and brugs are loving it.
My moma's banana tree she gave to me, stood only 3 ft. is dead now, but thats the only thing that died. I use a therostat controlled heater/blower in my GH, it wont heat hotter than 50-60 degree's. Mine must have been lucky.
What temperature is the absolute lowest that they will survive outside. We rarely get temps in the low 20s thru 30's but it does happen here in Moreno Valley. Last year it snowed one night, and just one or two days of frost, just enough to cause instant death on some plants, or the temps drop a good 30/40 degrees overnight and just shocks them into dying.
David, if you have a favorite that frosted, dig it up, throw it in a pot and put it somewhere warm. it'll go ahead and start growing back and give you a big jump on spring. with your zone, most should grow back from the roots. sad, isn't it, to see frosted blooms. Snowhermit is right too, some of the lower stalks will probably still root.
Well I guess you are glad you got almost everything put up, it might have helped if I hadn't been so long winded.... Did you lose anything real special?
David, I can send you back some of your cuttings.... if any got wiped out! I'm guarding them 24/7!
Bambi
David:
I'm sorry about your brugs. :-( After you assess the damage today, please give us an update and let us know what we can do to help.
David,
I emailed you yesterday before you started this thread not knowing anything about the situation. It was to tell you that you should be receiving the $7.00 my husband and I sent to you.
Please give an update as to whether it was received or anything ??????
Thanks and Have a blessed day
Julie
Hi David, my box of cuttings arrived yesterday in good shape. Thank you. Hope you didn't loose anything "special." but I would guess that those are the first that were put in the gh.
I think I may have misled you all. I had already taken all of my personal brug cuttings and all of my mother plants had already been chopped down to the ground in order for me to do the cuttings for postage thing.
All of my brugs are fine. It was the other outdoor plants,bannas,cannas,perrenials and such that got the big chill. When I left for work that morning I didn't think that it had gotten cold enough to do any harm to the plants just yet but it did get them.
As for all of the gh plants they are doing great. The heater is keeping the inside temps about 20degs higher than the outside temps. So i'm guessing if we have a normal winter this year the gh should stay around a constant 50degs all winter.
We had 2 nights of frost and now it's supposed to get warm again.
Isn't that the way it usually works??? You work like crazy to get everything in and taken care of and then it turns nice and warm after a couple of bad days. I always think how much more enjoyment I could have had from my plants if I just didn't have those couple of bad days.
Shirley some of mine were loaded with buds when I cut them. And some I hadn't even seen bloom yet.Tiara was in full bloom and I just chopped it down!
I forgot to mention in the above updated posting that all of the brug cuttings are fine and they are being shipped out as the postage arrives. I've already sent 6-8 boxes and that many more will go out monday.
David,
Did mine get to you ok? lmk
Julie
David If they are totally dead I have some bananas and cannas you can get Just let me know and some hibiscus
Well, I would have been upset to have to cut Tiara down before seeing her bloom. Too bad David, but maybe next year will be even better than this year.
Springsong, thanks for the offer but our ground doesn't freeze here. Everyting just dies to ground level and the things that will come back always do. I've never totally lost any of my banana trees. I did move my mini one into the gh though. It's my first year with it and I just wanted to see how big it actualy gets.
I took plenty of brug cuttings for myself though because I still don't know the types of all I have and am not sure which will come back and which won't.
For those of you who asked for cuttings don't worry,you'll get them or some of them anyway. There will be a few of you that end up not getting all of the ones you asked for because some were VERY limited and those seemed to be the main ones people wanted. Isn't that always the case?
I will do my best though to include all the plants that were requested on each order.
Thanks David I will be happy with any I just want to grow some out in my green house ( I have a green house wheew!!!) I have already put some of my older cuttings of hibiscus and such in it it frosted one time here but my brugs that haven't bloomed yet with buds were okay but it got the peas and corn stalks in my husbands deer plot I will have to post a picture of his latest shooting house he built, I even liked it here is a picture of some deer in his plot ( iknow i am getting way off the subject of this thred)
Springsong, what is a deer plot?
Bambi
lol I think it's when they bait a field with corn or soy beans or salt...maybe just corn around here...but that's what I think it means. Hey it works round these parts for baiting (plotting) deer to ummmm kill/slay for food purposes. lol
cheating......HUH?
yep, the men folk will do anything to bring em' in lol...even the doves.
yes they plant rye, wheat ,kale, turnips,and peas. you can't hunt over corn here in alabama ( legally) and they sit in stands and wait on supper.....
here is a mother and her fawns
Awww..that is so sweet.
Is he going to shoot this little family?
lol ummm not sure yet, prolly not...they'll wait on the daddy buck to come along
Poor Bambi.
Well they won't shoot Bambi I dont think. They have to be old enough to shoot and the lil' Bambi's arent. Their is a buck season and a doe season to go hunting.
My father always told me growing up that that's one of God's creations that he made for us to eat. Like fish, rabbit, squirrel, deer, etc...Im not a real meat eater myself, not after he brought in the skint rabbit and squirrel for me to clean in the sink. I thought that was torchure for me to be doing that. I was deeply affected.
BUT you cant tell the hunter's this, they have a deaf ear. lol
To put this in perspective, at least for our state....We have a deer overpopulation. Every night there are people injured or killed due to the deer running across the roadways and causing accidents. The farmers give up many bushels of their crops to the deer as well as the gardeners giving up produce and flowers. I love to watch them, but when there are so many that they are going into the cities and down the streets, breaking through store windows and trashing the place, it is time to let the hunters shoot and kill to reduce the numbers. I don't know of any hunters around here that don't use the meat. I guess that I personally believe that the deer are here for a reason and I've not yet felt the need to overly protect them or other wild animals that are not close to extinction. When animals become destructive or take the life of humans, then I believe it is okay to destroy them. If the state, who protects the deer when it is not an open hunting season, would take the responsibility of paying for the cars to be repaired or the hospitalization of the people in the cars, the lost income from the crops, etc. then maybe I would change my mind a bit. However, no one will be able to stop the car/deer crashes, but decreasing the numbers of the animals can decrease the number of incidents/injuries that happen. This is just my opinion, not meant to change anyone's mind about the beautiful animals. Oh, don't forget, they also spread disease through the ticks they transport.
Yes I agree with you Brugie, my daughter had one run out in front of her, and she hit it. They are over populated in my area, and alot of the areas here. Insurance company won't pay for the damage to her radiator or headlights. She will have to get it fixed on her own.
Shoot the deer stand on the sides of the road here in herds and dare you to ride down the road. They are deer friendly here LOL...
Poor soy crops, watermelon crops, corn...we had to run an electric fense around my father-in-laws garden last year because they were coming and eating it up. Geesh!