RE: CULT: Bloom Report
- Subject: RE: CULT: Bloom Report
- From: B* S*
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:46:03 -0500
Hi Leslie,
Check your weather report before you despair--here we are well to the
north of you and are predicted to have high 30s tonight and low 30s
tomorrow (unless that has changed in the last hour). Surely
Goldsboro will be warmer than Farmville! We are not so far advanced
(Intermediates just coming into bloom) but mid-20s would be
devastating for everything not yet bloomed.
Many, many years ago when I was growing irises in northern
Pennsylvania, a low 20s freeze was predicted early in the TB bloom
season. I was away at college (that was when we had 17-week
semesters and didn't get home until mid-June) but my dear old dad
went out every hour or so that night and sprayed the iris beds with
water. By sunrise the stalks were encased in ice, but there was no
damage. I have since learned that the ice keeps the plants right
around 32 degrees and prevents lower temperatures in the plant
tissues. I applied this back in the 1980s when a friend and I stayed
up all night spraying his 5-acre vineyard agains 19-degree
temperatures on the 4th of May! It was like an icy wonderland but
the grapes survived.
Anyway, keep your eye on the latest forecast and your fingers crossed!
--
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<wshear@email.hsc.edu>
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