Hoping for approaches to insulating/'jacketing' containers (tonight's going to be real cold!!)

[JoeH]

I use Weather.com and the national weather service and split the diff. Don't rely on Google or Brighthouse/Spectrum weather at all.

 

[rockm]

"I can't help but worry I'll eventually stumble and drop one in the morning when rushing to get everything back outside before work lol - it just seemed like bad-practice,:

Which is why you LEAVE THEM INSIDE UNTIL THE DANGER OF FROST AND FREEZE HAS PASSED...this can mean days or even a week inside (which is a stress on the tree, but not as bad as being frozen) There is no "in at night, out in the day" moving. It's once in, once out...Moving them in and out constantly not only puts them in danger of frost damage in the morning (why bring them in anyway if that's what you're going to do--morning is the coldest part of the day), you also put them in danger of being damaged in transit. I've learned the hard way moving big specimens--110 lbs of pot tree and soil is all dead weight and is unforgiving when being moved. Drop that on your foot and you're in the hospital...

 

[rockm]

Can't wait to see you moving 100 lbs trees into the basement. Please do a YouTube so we can see what we have to do isn't even close to this.

The vid would have to be HEAVILY censored for family viewing. There's a lot of cussing and flipping the bird to trees in pots after I set them down inside ;-)

 

[SU2]

"I can't help but worry I'll eventually stumble and drop one in the morning when rushing to get everything back outside before work lol - it just seemed like bad-practice,:

Which is why you LEAVE THEM INSIDE UNTIL THE DANGER OF FROST AND FREEZE HAS PASSED...this can mean days or even a week inside (which is a stress on the tree, but not as bad as being frozen) There is no "in at night, out in the day" moving. It's once in, once out...Moving them in and out constantly not only puts them in danger of frost damage in the morning (why bring them in anyway if that's what you're going to do--morning is the coldest part of the day), you also put them in danger of being damaged in transit. I've learned the hard way moving big specimens--110 lbs of pot tree and soil is all dead weight and is unforgiving when being moved. Drop that on your foot and you're in the hospital...

Sorry I didn't catch what you meant the first time, sounded like you'd meant daily (which is what I've been doing, and am going to continue doing for some specimen, I've just got some that are so easy to move that, for instance right now it's nice and sunny, I'm happy I moved them out for that - it's a PITA of course to move stuff often!) Will certainly just leave the larger/heavier stuff inside until I think the temp is more forgiving though!!

(btw when I said 'morning', I meant that, if it were proper, I'd be fine with doing it that way - however, in practice, they go back outside around 9.30a, after the cold's mostly dissipated and the temp is rising )

 

[SU2]

The vid would have to be HEAVILY censored for family viewing. There's a lot of cussing and flipping the bird to trees in pots after I set them down inside ;-)

2nd vote for youtube Would love to see it, if it's half as cumbersome as me moving a 50lb'er last night I'm sure it's funny viewing ;D