Re: HYB: Stratification
- Subject: Re: HYB: Stratification
- From: p*@whidbey.net
- Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 04:00:40 -0000
Goodness! How did you get a 7/8 zone assignment with those kinds of
extremes? Talk about a challenging climate! Any success you get is
admirable.
Patricia
-- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@v...> wrote:
> <Our weather being not too different (do you have hard freezes?),
there
> should be some info at least produced despite all the inevitable
> variables. Hopefully. Patricia Brooks Whidbey
Island,
> WA, zone 8>
>
> Well, Patricia, our weather is probably about as different as two
zone
> 8s could be - yes, it does freeze hard here. One winter night
several
> years back, it was colder here than anywhere else in the lower 48
states
> (25 degrees below zero). Most winters it doesn't get below zero,
and
> for the last few hasn't gotten below 10. We are mid-continent, so
have
> none of the ameliorating conditions you have on your island - wild
> swings in temperature and rainfall year round - highs from 70s to
100s
> in summer and teens to 80s in mid winter, annual rainfall from 30 to
> nearly 70 inches with individual rainfall events as much as 6
inches,
> frequently 3 inches or more in a few days between weeks with no
rain.
> And I'm sure the seeds I'm working with, from TBs that thrive here,
will
> have different tolerance peculiarities from yours, but it will
still be
> interesting to compare results.
>
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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