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Originally Posted by harveyc
Chong, are you planning on growing these outdoors or in your greenhouse? I had figured you were putting the in your greenhouse for at least the winter and would have grabbed those plants!
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You will recall that I had two Dwarf Niņos that survived the cold greenhouse in 2006 when the power went out for 7 days and six nights here in Seattle. The temperatures dipped into the single digits, yet they survived. Then in the winter of 2007-2008, they did fine until Feb-Mar 2008, and slowly turned to mush.
I could put the 3 VCs in the greenhouse. But because, now, the temperatures are dropping below 50, and the daylight hours shortening, I would rather that they grew out a little longer, where the environment was more favorable. The forecast low is 43°F this weekend. That means that if I were to have them shipped here next week, by the time they get here, the temperature may be even lower than that. Even if they grow dormant, they would have a difficult time to recover in the spring since we don't accumulate that much heat during the short days of late Winter and early Spring. So, I don't want to take the chance with them like the Dwarf Niņos.
I know that
given the record I have with this vendor, this is arguably more of a leap of faith than with TTN on my part. But I have their word that that's what they're going to do. I may be unhappy later on, but at the very least, I will have live plants, however small.
I wish that we had more sunshiny days here in Seattle. Right now it's been raining off and on (mostly on) and I feel the need to bring all the newly arrived and transplanted plants inside the greenhouse, and I'm running out of space.