RE: no greenhouse question
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  • Subject: RE: no greenhouse question
  • From: &* <a*@hargray.com>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:08:31 -0500
I'd have to agree with Gene, Kitty-even in my green house some of my stuff
gets a bit leggy simply because of the "lesser" winter sunlight. A quick
snip should put them back to rights once it's time to move them out. When is
your sale again? 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Gene Bush
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 7:04 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: [CHAT] no greenhouse question

Kitty,
	Since your are always playing nurseryperson, why not purchase an
inexpensive shop light and replace the bulbs with something like grow
lights. Not all that much money involved and easy to change your
circumstances with the plants. Will be there when you need it next and for
seedlings.
	They may still get somewhat leggy, but they can be safely cut back
and restarted when you have more light available. Although, depending upon
what is naturally available in late winter...early spring...is seldom enough
for good stocky plants.
	
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens,LLC
www.munchkinnursery.com
Garden Writer - Photographer -  Lecturer



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Kitty
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 1:40 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: [CHAT] no greenhouse question

Don't ask me why I did this, I had a reason.

I ordered thirty  #1grade Sherbet Cocktail Phlox which arrived the other 
day.  I thought perhaps they'd hold a few weeks in my cool garage, guessing 
45-50 degrees but, no, when I checked yesterday they were poppin'.  So this 
morning I potted them up in quarts (they were smaller than the #1s I've 
gotten from other suppliers), gave them a gentle watering in and set them on

the counter in the garage in front of the only window, which faces south.

It's 26 degrees out, will be 14 tonight.  This is too cold for them to go in

my Florida room.  It's one of those old aluminum frame jobs with storm 
windows.  Drafty, cold as the outdoors except when the sun shines.  In March

I hope to put some risers on the cement floor and move the pots out there.

But for now, is there anything wrong about keeping them in the garage?  Will

they get scraggly without a lot of sun?  How soon, at what day/night temps 
would it be safe to put them outside?  If they do ok I hope to bump them up 
to trade gallons at the end of March.

Any suggestions?


Kitty
neIN, Zone 5 

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