Ugh...the weather...again

[Bonsai Nut]

It's the same with people... I see immigrants with parkas on in September the first year, and by the spring of the next they are walking around at +6 C in T-shirts like the rest of us. Provided that you are willing to acclimate, the winters don't have to be something that you loath.

Growing up outside of Chicago, you accepted Winter as just part of life. However, I have gotten really used to Southern California. But what I don't like isn't so much the lower temps - it is the shortness of the days, which affects us all.

I would err on the side of conservatism, considering the work you put into a single tree, what is a couple of hours of moving trees around?

 

[namnhi]

="I would err on the side of conservatism, considering the work you put into a single tree, what is a couple of hours of moving trees around?

That is what keep me out in the cold moving them inside. When I say cold... around 35 degree or so. This Friday will be the coldest of the Fall season for us... which should get down to around 35. You already spent a lot of time on the tree so why not put up another 15 minutes to move them to a safer location.
NN

 

[Random User]

"But what I don't like isn't so much the lower temps - it is the shortness of the days, which affects us all."

I really don't have a problem with SAD (seasonal affect disorder)... it's more that I have problems with the people who are suffering from it. I find that people who learn to play in the outdoors during the winter, don't have the same degree of disruption from it. I was friends with a guy who I simply have to avoid because he is such an ass during the first 1/4 of the year that it doesn't make it worthwhile to be around him...

 

[Lazylightningny]

Hey Paradox. We're neighbors; I'm over in Westchester. I put my trees away yesterday. Don't want to take a chance on freeze damage.

 

[GGB]

I leave mine out until it gets into the low twenties, then the fragile stuff goes into an unheated garage and the larches/pines/spruce just get put on the ground next to a fence. I have a small collection but haven't lost one yet (to the cold). I worry more about spring, once tender stuff sprouts

 

[GrimLore]

I would err on the side of conservatism

I only do that if the plant in question comes from an entirely different zone. For example a Southern grown Juniper(any) comes from the South in the Spring here - First year shed for the Winter, after that out there in the snow... Never fails so far.

Grimmy

 

[Paradox]

Hey Paradox. We're neighbors; I'm over in Westchester. I put my trees away yesterday. Don't want to take a chance on freeze damage.

Yes you're not far, but believe me the weather in Westchester (inland and north of me) is very different than on eastern Long Island with the ocean influence. Your weather is more like Connecticut and Mass which is colder than here. If I was in Westchester, my trees would probably be inside too.

I have somewhere around 50 trees so its 2 hours to move them in on Friday and 2 hours to move them back out on Sunday because its going to be 49-50 degrees on Monday.

In any case I am watching the weather like a hawk. As next week's forecast becomes revealed, I may revisit the decision to move the trees. I can take Friday afternoon off if needs be to get it done.

 

[Tycoss]

Here it is about -20f or so at night. Everything but white spruce that I own is in the garage. I also have left larch and lodgepole pine out all winter, but not of they have been recently wired or re-potted. Anyone else noticed their trees are less cold hardy in these situations?

 

[aml1014]

The high yesterday was 41°f, it's currently 17°f, and this is how the rest of the week will be. I definitely need to unwinterize the trees (several hundred) before that 60° day.
I guess ill be busy after work the next 3 days.

Aaron

 

[GrimLore]

We are going into 20F nights and Snow next week...



Grimmy