Houston(ish) Texas Banana Growers - Page 3

ewitte · 01-09-2010, 07:47 AM

Nice and toasty 18F right now.

MjdTexan · 01-09-2010, 07:51 AM

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, it is really cold. I sure am glad it does not do this every year

Abnshrek · 01-09-2010, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by MjdTexan

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, it is really cold. I sure am glad it does not do this every year

I know what you mean I think my chicken have icicles hanging from their tails :^)

MjdTexan · 01-09-2010, 11:39 AM

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I know what you mean I think my chicken have icicles hanging from their tails :^)

My chickens water bowls were frozen this morning. Other than that they seem to be doing quite well. I have a nice hen house for them to go into every evening. Around dark time they all file in, get on their roost and stay there till daybreak. I am running a heat lamp above them now but I suspect that they dont really need it. I am gonna send you a PM about a chicken community.

enigma99a · 01-09-2010, 01:34 PM

Houston got down to 18?? or less?

MjdTexan · 01-09-2010, 01:43 PM

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Houston got down to 18?? or less?

I think it was supposed to get to 19 or something like that. I have not watched the weather today. It is supposed to be better by Monday. Al can come out of hiding then

Bananaman88 · 01-09-2010, 11:49 PM

It got down to about 23 overnight in my area of Houston. Icicles on my waterfall and the surface of my watergarden was completely frozen over except directly under the waterfall. It made it up to 42 here today but will be down to the low 20's again tonight and tomorrow night before finally warming back up in the low 60's by mid-week. That will feel great!

Abnshrek · 01-09-2010, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Bananaman88

It made it up to 42 here today but will be down to the low 20's again tonight and tomorrow night before finally warming back up in the low 60's by mid-week. That will feel great!

I second that motion on warmth & great :^)

ewitte · 01-10-2010, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by enigma99a

Houston got down to 18?? or less?

Saturday morning 18F - It was up to 22 or 23 when I went out for a long walk with the dog.
This morning 22F

Pressure valve on my sprinkler system popped last Saturday morning. There were 4 other people in Lowes at the exact time looking for one. We all just got some temporary solution that didn't fit. They said it had to be forced in but it wasn't going after 1h of forcing and actually popped off with a loud bang when I got close. Just kept it shutoff and wrapped heavily with towels until the one from ebay gets here.

ewitte · 01-10-2010, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Bananaman88

It got down to about 23 overnight in my area of Houston.

What time did you check? It was 18 here about 7am Saturday morning on that day. Then it started going back up.

MjdTexan · 01-10-2010, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ewitte

What time did you check? It was 18 here about 7am Saturday morning on that day. Then it started going back up.

Thank Goodness this is about over. I hate cold weather. Brrrrrrr. If it will get closer to 50 degrees today I am going to go out to my wood shop and build me a couple of new bee hives for this springs bigger and better garden. I am starting to get eggcited.

Bananaman88 · 01-10-2010, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ewitte

What time did you check? It was 18 here about 7am Saturday morning on that day. Then it started going back up.

It was probably around 8 a.m. but my digital thermometer keeps a record of how low it got. I forget what part of Houston you live in, but it's conceivable that it could have easily been 5 degrees difference in where you live and where I live.

ewitte · 01-10-2010, 04:30 PM

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It was probably around 8 a.m. but my digital thermometer keeps a record of how low it got. I forget what part of Houston you live in, but it's conceivable that it could have easily been 5 degrees difference in where you live and where I live.

Yep sure is the estimate on weather.com was a 6F difference between Sugar Land and Pearland. About to take the bag off one banana to inspect. When I took the towel off there was some water in the bag. I drained it out but later found brown liquid on it. Need to check for mush further up.

EDIT: hard to tell, its not mush but definately a little soft. letting it air out because there was more liquid in the bag. Should be safe without it since its not (supposed to be) going under freezing the next 10 days...

Bananaman88 · 01-10-2010, 09:56 PM

I'm sure there's going to be a lot of mush out there but hopefully we all protected our bananas well enough that they'll survive.

ewitte · 01-11-2010, 06:39 AM

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Thank Goodness this is about over. I hate cold weather. Brrrrrrr. If it will get closer to 50 degrees today I am going to go out to my wood shop and build me a couple of new bee hives for this springs bigger and better garden. I am starting to get eggcited.

Wrong. Should have known better than to only look at the high/low for the day. The only way to be certain is hour by hour. While it said 38 for the low on the daily the hour by hour showed 25 and it actually made it to 24 again.. Made me go back out at 10pm to put some towels back when they said "hard freeze" on the news.

Bananaman88 · 01-11-2010, 12:07 PM

It was 23 at 4:45 this morning when I got up. I think we are supposed to be right at 32 tonight...so at least it is starting to moderate somewhat.

01-09-2010, 07:47 AM	#41 (permalink)
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Bananaman88 Bananaculturist Bananaman88's Photo Gallery Location: Houston, TX area Find me on the map! Zone: 9 Name: Brent Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 3,019 BananaBucks : 286,700 Feedback: 22 / 100% Said "Thanks" 1,339 Times Was Thanked 2,263 Times in 1,178 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 191 Times	Re: Houston(ish) Texas Banana Growers It got down to about 23 overnight in my area of Houston. Icicles on my waterfall and the surface of my watergarden was completely frozen over except directly under the waterfall. It made it up to 42 here today but will be down to the low 20's again tonight and tomorrow night before finally warming back up in the low 60's by mid-week. That will feel great!

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Bananaman88 Bananaculturist Bananaman88's Photo Gallery Location: Houston, TX area Find me on the map! Zone: 9 Name: Brent Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 3,019 BananaBucks : 286,700 Feedback: 22 / 100% Said "Thanks" 1,339 Times Was Thanked 2,263 Times in 1,178 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 191 Times	Re: Houston(ish) Texas Banana Growers It was 23 at 4:45 this morning when I got up. I think we are supposed to be right at 32 tonight...so at least it is starting to moderate somewhat.

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