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Old 10-28-2009, 01:55 PM   #21 (permalink)
 
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How long have you lived in Denver? My brother lives there and that place has the craziest weather patterns. Weather people have one of those wheel charts and they spin the wheel and were ever the pointer lands that's what they predict the weather will be. My brother would call me from being on his jet ski one day and then tell me its snowing the next...

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Yeah, you see that patch of moderate/heavy snow on the map?! That's me. like 6 inches downtown already, and we usually get a bubble of less snow than the rest of the state
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How long have you lived in Denver? My brother lives there and that place has the craziest weather patterns. Weather people have one of those wheel charts and they spin the wheel and were ever the pointer lands that's what they predict the weather will be. My brother would call me from being on his jet ski one day and then tell me its snowing the next...
Haha. I've been in the Denver area my entire life....And yeah weather tends to be really weird here. Yesterday it was about 60F and just a tad bit overcast, and currently it is 28F and snowing so much it's impossible to go do anything really. I remember last year there was a day that officially announced winter where it was 65F around noon, and -15F at about 11pm. That was fricken insane.
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Momese,

The winds made it to San Diego this afternoon. Very gusty with dead calm breaks in between. Bad start to winter with every leaf shredded, but ony two Mona Lisa stalks folded. They are pretty slender.


It was an experience to be out among them when the gusts came. They really swaye d a lot, and the rustling leaves are pretty noisy. Seemed almost like being in a washing machine alternating between agitate and spin.

It is always a bummer when you lose a plant. Your pix were pretty heartbreaking.
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I'm so sorry, that is hearbreaking. Beautiful Fruit
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Old 10-28-2009, 09:34 PM   #25 (permalink)
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So all you locals that want some really tall plants and large pups for free can come help me remove this stand this spring. I'm officially done growing tall bananas. In this wind I lost 2 bunches of young fruit and it looks like the last bunch standing will be coming down sometime tonight. The winds are supposed to be 70 mph tonight. Hopefully it doesn't break anything!
Bummer..so sorry to see this:-(

Guess that is why you dumped the Tall Reds...got all the Dwarf Brazilians you want;-)..although they are not really dwarf bananas..just a smaller version of the Brazilians.

Good news is think of all of the new varieties you can introduce (not what you want to hear right now), Rajapuri is short and stout.

We grow Tall Brazilians (Hawaiian apple); but only in the side yard between our house and our neighbors 35 foot tall three story windshield (which also creates a solar eclipse). The Sabas can withstand winds up to 50-60 mphs...the Brazilians...not so much.

Sorry for your loss...now you know how the Florida members feel after a near miss Hurricane.

Let us know what corms you are looking to introduce and good luck!!

Hang in there...luckily you thinned your mattes or it could have been worse...

If it is any consolation we considered dumping bananas from our yard in the mid to late nighties due to frosts and tropical storms....this is weather's reminder that we are sub-tropical and not "Tropical"...

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1989 * This freeze occurred on December 22-26. This freeze was the fifth *impact freeze recorded in Florida history, however it was the second *impact freeze in a single decade, leaving growers little time to recover after the freezes of 1983 and 1985.

*Impact Freeze: a freeze so severe that it annihilates entire groves across the state, killing both mature and young citrus trees, while causing a profound economic impact on the citrus industry and usually prompting growers to replant farther south.

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Thanks Chris. I already have Raja Puri and it does really good in the wind. Even the mid sized plants like Misi Luki and Pisang Klotek did fine so I'll probably replace the HA with something mid sized and leave the dwarfs in front of them.
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