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Old 04-12-2009, 02:00 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Default Re: 2009 First Leafers in coastal South Carolina

I did not keep any records of that type of stuff and I was traveling a good bit. We probably had 15 days of frost and several nights into the low 20s.

I have finally seen some growth in the orinocos, but it is only the smaller plants. This has been the trend this spring here. Smaller plants leaf out first. Taller plants have been cut back much further than before and some large stalks of each variety seem deceased. One 15 foot saba p-stem rots and one nearly the same size 3 feet away has a new leaf worming its way out.

The ele ele did not make it, but a pup was found this morning.
The tall ice creams seem stalled with 4-5 inches of a green leaf out of the top. Again, the short ones are doing fine.
I am impressed with the dwarf namwahs. They just shrugged off the cold.
Viente cohol has melted into nothing.
No pstem from my savannah haul survived.

the Goldfinger seems to be the only casualty of the 5
FHIA-1 Goldfinger--the smallest
FHIA-3 Sweetheart
FHIA-25
FHIA-18
Belle

This is amazing to me since they were only in the ground 3 weeks before the freeze came.
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