Re: Re: tropical temps/smudge pots

smudge pots. we use them at the nursery in this kind of weather. they burn diesel fuel. they're big, ugly, smelly, and you need a forklift or skid steer to move them around. there's a restaurant owner in town who has six of them [he stores them at the nursery]; yesterday, we placed five of them around the restaurant and the other in the backyard of his residence. but he's the only person i've heard of who uses one at a residence.



At 07:14 PM 1/23/03 -0500, you wrote:
Jim,
don't they use little flame heaters in the orchards, or something like
that?  Couldn't a homeowner employ some sort of inexpensive heat device to
get past the tough spots?
Kitty


> [Original Message]
> From: Island Jim <jsinger@igc.org>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 1/23/2003 4:46:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: tropical temps/was time question
>
> looks like the citrus industry is going to get zinged again, melody. at
> least that's what the weatherreaders are saying on tampa tv. as you no
> doubt know, the "florida fruit belt" is due east of tampa, south and
> slightly west of orlando.
>
> here at the plantation, we will mostly cross our fingers. there's just
too
> much stuff to try to cover it [it's times like this when goodwill and
sally
> ann sell out of used sheets]. i'm worried most about my sugar apples, but
> it would be a fool's errand to try to cover them. i can't worry about the
> mangoes, starfruit, guavas, litchis, pineapples, bananas, etc-etc;
they're
> too big to cover. for the second year in a row, however, we will probably
> lose any chance that the loquats [now in full bloom] will set
fruit--either
> the flowers will freeze or the pollinators will.
>
> i did move my relatively expensive licuala palm into the lathhouse in the
> faint hope that would be sufficient protection and i've moved some of the
> moveable plants [ming aralias and such] back under the eaves. also of
> interest--one of david's fantastic hybrid hibiscus, which is in a pot too
> big to move without a forklift, is loaded with buds, one of which is
about
> half open. beautiful flower [looks like the same one that's on his web
> site--name i forget]. we'll see what the cold does to it, the other buds,
> and the plant itself.
>
> on the up side, this chill will likely encourage our two fig trees to
give
> us a sensational crop next may. and it should traumatize the mulberry
> enough to really prune the hell out of it; back to a fruiting nub.
>
> bet you're sorry you asked, huh.
>
> At 06:10 AM 1/23/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >Jim: So with temps. dropping that far in Florida, what do you have to do
> >to protect your tropical plants/fruits? When my husband and I decided to
> >move back to Iowa from our year vacation in Florida, the day we left it
> >was 30 degrees in Miami and the entire fruit industry suffered huge
> >losses that year...it was sad...
> >
> >
> >
> >Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
> >
> >"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
> >--Albert Einstein
> >
> >  --- On Thu 01/23, Island Jim < jsinger@igc.org > wrote:
> >From: Island Jim [mailto: jsinger@igc.org]
> >To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 05:15:38 -0500
> >Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: time question
> >
> >i personally think it's great that we get all these messages out of sync.
> >it makes me realize how much virtual life mimics real life.
> >
> >it's warm [60 degrees or so] right now [5:30 am] but slated to drop to
low
> >50s by noon and low 30s by tonight.
> >
> >At 01:41 AM 1/23/03 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Ceres,
> > >
> > >A great deal depends on the connection between your ISP and the ISP
> > >of the sender as well as the ISP of the server on which the email
> > >list resides.  All messages are broken into packets and sent on the
> > >internet via the best available bit of bandwidth to be reassembled at
> > >their various destinations...and if some backbone, line or server is
> > >having a hiccup then you, the receiver, won't get the message as fast
> > >as someone else or even get the original message before someone else
> > >has gotten it and replied and their reply gets to you.  Strange, I
> > >know, but it happens all the time.  Sometimes, messages simply get
> > >lost in the ether and never get to their destination...so don't
> > >assume just because you sent an email, the recipient ever got it:-)
> > >
> > >When all is working on all eights, email can appear to be sent and
> > >received in real time, but that's not usually the case.
> > >
> > >Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> > > > I rcd this message from Jim which had been sent at 7:10 and
> > >questioned why I
> > > > had not rcd the message from Rich.  I then rcd the message from
> > >Rich at which
> > > > said it was sent at 7:27.  Why the difference?  Doesn't go to all
> > >members at
> > > > the same time?
> > > >     Ceres
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