Re: 70 to 25 in 48 hours
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: 70 to 25 in 48 hours
- From: A* R* <a*@austx.tandem.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:34:40 -0600 (CST)
> I was listening to the radio and heard that commercial growers were
> spraying trees down several times during the night and keeping fans on
> them???
Probably. They do this for the citrus crop in the Rio Grande Valley of
Texas, and smudge pots etc. If below freezing for a certain time, then
the fruit is only good for juice; if below it for longer, tree damage
begins to occur.
I have a 5 gal. Rio Red grapefruit tree here in Austin; it took 31 deg.
two nights in a row without a blink, but then again, it's not fruiting.
Our peach crop ought to be OK according to the news.
--
Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com) Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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