farmer d
Farmer D
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« Reply #120 on: December 15, 2011, 09:29:26 PM » |
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Farmer D, you're lucky you didn't (I hope) get the hail storm we had here in the Inland Empire this afternoon.!
Charlie
I love the weather but fortunately the main energy of that front seemed to be over you more. Got some lightning and rain but thankfully no hail. At one point I could see blue sky in front of the storm as well as behind it. Was it pretty intense in your area? The radar showed it red over that vicinity for a while this afternoon. Farmer D |
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Charlie
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« Reply #121 on: December 16, 2011, 04:52:18 AM » |
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It was intense. First the sky darkened ominously but I needed something from Lowe's so went to get it. Once inside the store, the lightning and thunder broke and you could hear what I thought was rain pounding on the roof of the big box. A few minutes later some guy walked by and commented "you're gonna freeze outside, man" I guess because I was wearing shorts. I looked out the door and saw the hail mixed with cold rain and decided to spend some more time looking at tools. We live right at the base of Mt. San Jacinto so do get some weather intensity that is more rare closer to the coast.
Charlie
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« Reply #122 on: December 16, 2011, 09:10:38 AM » |
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LOL, Charlie you are describing almost every day at 4pm in CO. The atmosphere is unstable at such a high altitude, so we got strong thunderstorms and hail everyday in the late afternoon during the summer. At least there is no fear of tornadoes in the inland empire.
Ironically, the PNW has as variable weather as CO, especially since I live right next to the Strait of Juan de fuca. The long obstructed fetch allows winds to rip through this area. We consistently get sustained winds of 40 mph with gusts 60-80 mph... Putting any plants outside in the summer is probably not going to happen out here... Seattle was much wetter and cloudier, but the weather was more consistent, major difference 50 miles makes! Interestingly Sequim is about 40 miles from me and gets less than 17 inches of rain a year, and is almost always sunny! And only 40 miles from Sequim is the Hoh temperate rainforest which receives 121 - 165 inches of rain a year. It seems as though this is truly the land of micro climates!
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Ernest
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« Reply #123 on: December 16, 2011, 07:01:17 PM » |
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I keep getting error messages telling me I already posted this but I can't find it anywhere. So here are some cool weather blooms. Sorry if this is a duplicate.
Love Story, Me Oh My Oh, Eye of Kali, Black Dream, Living Legend, and LL bush.
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Ernest
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« Reply #124 on: December 16, 2011, 07:05:57 PM » |
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A few more: 2 Night Fires and NF bush, Renaissance Blue, and Donna Lynn.
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farmer d
Farmer D
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« Reply #125 on: December 16, 2011, 07:15:46 PM » |
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Ironically, the PNW has as variable weather as CO, especially since I live right next to the Strait of Juan de fuca. The long obstructed fetch allows winds to rip through this area. We consistently get sustained winds of 40 mph with gusts 60-80 mph...
Chris I'm wondering if you have a designated evacuation route being right on the ocean in the beautiful Cascadia Subduction Tsunami Zone? Whenever in HI that is the first mental thing I cover when we get to our destination. Where and how fast can we get to higher ground.... Farmer D |
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farmer d
Farmer D
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« Reply #126 on: December 16, 2011, 07:27:00 PM » |
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Erny your shots of the plants is so helpful. Thanks for posting those. Both my Nightfire and LL are small so I now have a much better idea of what they are aiming to become. Your plants are so nice and lush though I don't see too many buds. I can tell you from my experience that spraying with Supernova has really kept my bud action going like crazy even with this very cold autumn we're having. I don't remember if you spray or even have time to but I would love to see your bushes with buds all over them. It might be too late this season but if you have the time I think you would see a difference. Even without the buds my plants are still growing like crazy even though it has already been as cold as last winter when they pretty much shut down for several months. Last year I didn't know about Supernova and spraying it and of course my plants are another year more mature... Hey it's also great to have someone else posting pics of Black Dream growing out doors. Mine is in a lot of shade this time of year and I get really wet and glossy blooms. Check out this one from today...so dark it really is pretty much black and I super love it this way!  Farmer D |
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David In Nha Trang Vietnam
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« Reply #127 on: December 16, 2011, 07:37:20 PM » |
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Wow!! that Black Dream is lovely. Today Melon Melange was looking nice, I have this on a small porch at the front, I needed a cv there that was tough and could stand constant strong winds, not much sun either so its doing quite well.
Cosmic Gold into its second day and much more of a gold color.
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« Reply #128 on: December 16, 2011, 09:27:23 PM » |
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Chris I'm wondering if you have a designated evacuation route being right on the ocean in the beautiful Cascadia Subduction Tsunami Zone? Whenever in HI that is the first mental thing I cover when we get to our destination. Where and how fast can we get to higher ground....
Farmer D
Hey Darren, Luckily where I live is right on Puget Sound, and not the Pacific Ocean, so the force of any tidal wave would be hit the west side of the peninsula and dissipate before it got to us. Unless of course there is a strong seismic event on this side of the pennisula, in which we will probably have alot of problems to worry about besides just tidal waves. I attached two pictures from our front yard.  |
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« Reply #129 on: December 16, 2011, 09:32:05 PM » |
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Woah awesome blooms! I am drooling over those Black Dreams, I am a sucker for dark red CVs!
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David In Nha Trang Vietnam
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« Reply #130 on: December 16, 2011, 10:19:28 PM » |
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Bright Horizon today, this cv may have a few problems with the blooms but its such a lovely bush, it also has very dark lush green leaves.
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Ernest
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« Reply #131 on: December 16, 2011, 10:59:41 PM » |
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Darren, that Black Dream is about as good as it gets. I have two in the ground and one still in a pot. All get a lot of sun and continually put out a profusion of blooms. I started spraying with the Super Nova several weeks ago--about once a week I dump a few capfuls into a 3 gallon sprayer and that is enough to cover everything I have in the ground. It sounds like you spray a lot more often. Lately it seems that I've gotten a lot of green growth without a whole lot of buds but during the past week a lot of buds have started to appear. They just haven't liked the colder weather much. I have been spraying the 4" potted plants I got from Charlie more often--usually every other day--and they all seem to be thriving. My wife and I are going to Florida next week and will stay through New Year's eve so my plants will not get much TLC from our house sitter during the next two weeks. But when I get back I'll start a more intensive spraying regimen. It really doesn't take much time and I do have plenty of that available. By the way, I plan to visit one or two specialty hibiscus nurseries in Florida while we are there. If you would like me to scout out any rare or hard to find cvs there just let me know.
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« Reply #132 on: December 16, 2011, 11:16:26 PM » |
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Erny that sounds like a blast!
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Ernest
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« Reply #133 on: December 16, 2011, 11:45:16 PM » |
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Yeah, we're visiting my wife's family there so my part of the deal is that we go to Fairchild Tropical Botanical gardens and I get to check out the local hibiscus scene. My email is ernestncurtis@aol.com. |
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farmer d
Farmer D
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« Reply #134 on: December 17, 2011, 12:40:54 AM » |
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Erny those preliminary results you're starting to see with the green growth and buds starting to pop up sounds like what I see with spraying SN. Keep it up and let's see what happens over this winter. I'm starting to think that if we spray at least 2 or 3 times a week minimum our plants should keep on growing in spite of the cold. My goal is to keep them growing and blooming all winter long, not just keep their leaves and wait for warm weather and longer days of sun. This will be a good test of what it can actually achieve if anything.
Lynette mentioned that she was spraying too...I wonder if she has seen any difference as well?
Very exciting and thanks again to David in Vietnam for introducing this in the first place on the forum earlier this year.
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