Damage Assessment and What Worked .. What Didn't

That would be great!! I am going to Dmail you my real email so I will get the message in case I don't pop in here for some reason!

One rule though - not complaints about the ugly pot! LOL!! It's just a plain on clay one with a crack in it! :)

Nicole

Hi there! Garden addict: No complaints about cracked clay pots!! I'd certainly be willing to give it a go. What's one more finicky plant one way or the other! LOL. :) Seriously, the other night, as I was hauling pots inside for the umpteenth time, I thought, "OK, that's it. I have enough tropicals now." But if you're hauling in 7 pots, why not 8? ;-> (Ah...that way madness lies.)
X: That's really nice of you to see if you can arrange it. About the closest I ever get to your Ft. Mill is Bennetsville or Florence, SC. I may be going there in a few weeks for work and might be able to arrange a detour...not sure tho. Have to check my schedule.

I just love DGers.
Deb

Cool! I know the plumeria would be delighted to go to another home! I have been rather neglectful of it! Hope I don't get my gardening card taken away! LOL!!

OK - so X, if your Aunt wants to help out - great! I will throw her in the car and go! If not - it's not going anywhere Deb and we can eventually get it to you!

Nicole

Nicole: If if makes it way to me, I promise it won't be neglected. (Don't feel guilty, it's going to a good home. ;-> )
Deb

;) Gotcha! :)

Nicole

If you read the Plummie forum here you learn that the read addicts fertilize, fertilize and fertilize some more. Apparently these are really hungry plants and I am going to try and remember to sock it to them this year and see what happens.

The serious growers also leave their pots on a hot surface like a blacktop driveway or place them against a solid wall like concrete or brick or anything that would hold the heat and radiate it back to the plants. My friend who has a plummie that blooms non stop has hers against such a wall and maybe that is the trick. Lots of food and lots of heat.

Thanks ardesia, I might try doing that as well. The heating pad did seem to work that time I kept it on, it sped up growth anyway.

We also tempted Mother Nature and put our heirloom pepper and tomato transplants (from Seed Savers Exchange) in the ground during the warm spell. We were able to save them from the cold snap by putting Christmas lights around them and covering with blankets. One of the tomato plants looks a little stressed, but it should make it.

OK, you've intrigued me, ardesia! I don't inhabit the Plumie boards, so I guess I've missed a lot. I've got a big, south facing wood porch at the back of my house that fries everything (except cacti/some succulents) I've tried there for the past 15 years. Maybe THAT'S where the Plumeria would be happy? Got a bunch going in the greenhouse right now. Since I'm at the end of my tether on this plant, they're out there! It's sink or swim for this specie...

LOL Stono, They will love it there but you might want to set up a drip system to keep them quenched.

(Why, oh why, do we do this? There are so many outstanding plants with far fewer needs. Gardeners are seriously obsessed.) :-))))

The drip system is already installed, ardesia---a relic from prior failures to grow anything on that desert of a deck. Even heat-loving Salvias from Mexico crumped from the heat! But now I've GOT to put some Plumeria's up there---you tell me why we do this?!!! And since I've publically sworn off Plumeria's earlier in this thread, why will I move all the new ones I've started in the greenhouse to the sauna on the deck? Why am I starting new ones, anyway? We are a strange lot...

My hydranga's look so bad with frost burn, my fault, I did not cover them. What is the best way to go? Leave them alone and let them recover? or cut off damage? My Brugs did fine in frost and so did mandevilla, but the HYs and some of my veggie plants got hit. Appreciste any advice. Nancy

I just caught this thread (been a while since I've been on DG). I put out about 11 of my tomato seedlings early this year - like late March. When the cold snap hit, I still had plenty of landscaping cloth from my expansion this year. I laid out 4 round tomato cages so the wire didn't hit the tomatoes, and draped 2 stretches of landscaping cloth over the top. I ran old coathanger wire through the cloth and cage wire to clasp the two sheets together, and to the cages. We did not get frost here in Charlotte - at least not at my house.

I have lost one, and a second looks to be on its way out as well. But all the others have survived. They are leafier than the ones I kept inside at night, probably because they got more sunlight by day. I just finished putting the rest of my seedlings in the ground yesterday. Here's a nice shot showing off my protection effort: