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10-08-2011, 06:29 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Would the normal small lights give off any heat inside a hoop house? Doesn't get that cold in NC in the winter,but it has been colder then normal past three.
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
I'm sure it would give of some heat BUT would it heat a hoop house. I wouldn't think so. The citrus guys wrap two strings around ther young trees and still wrap them.
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
The new LED lights give off almost zero heat.
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
I know no heat what so ever. it was hard I had to really search the house for the old ones that heat up for my banana outside.
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
I guess he should define what he is calling a string of lights. I did not think he was referring to the screw base lights. I thought he was talking about the small push in base incandescent bulbs.
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
I think he's talking about the traditional "midget" lights which do give heat as opposed to no heat from LED's. However, most people use "midgets" to wrap their plants not heat small greenhouses.
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
Yes the small push and turn ones for christmas trees I just want my ice cream,orinoco,saba,velutina to keep there size. I made a hoop house years ago for my windmill palm which was a small plant. It lived for 4 winters in Ohio without any heat. Then it puked from it getting way to cold and soil around it was pretty worn out. Thanks
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
I looked at your weather history and with your use of the term "hoop house" I'm picturing a small greenhouse. If you are using the small push-in bulbs I just don't see where they will provide enough heat. I tarped a Robellini palm and had a 100w light bulb inside. The tarp was not touching the palm and I still lost it from cold damage. This was a well sealed structure too. I had protected this palm the same way for about five years but it wasn't enough. Christmas lights would not have done better.
I don't think it will work.
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
My banana buddy, Luke from Ohio, buries his midget x-mas lights just under the soil to keep the roots warm.
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
Depending on the number of bulbs in the strand, the "mini-incandescent" can burn up maybe 20 -25 watts.
LEDs draw between 2 to 3 watts, next to nothing really. I just started a couple hundred papaya plants just before we had a nasty cold snap & at night I have 2 bulbs, a 100w & a 150W inside & it's barely able to maintain a 20° - 30° temperature increase, with a blanket & tarp over it. That's with about 17 cubic feet of volume. Got any idea of the wattage of your specific lights? As most folks here have been saying, if they're LEDs there's next to zero wattage/heat output. What's the volume of your little house, and what sort of extra insulation do you have for it?
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
I have used xmas lights for the last 2 winters to protect some bananas and palms. I get the $3 strands from walmart. It has worked well for me and my plants always look better than the neighbors that don't protect their plants. The cheapest lights are the ones that have the most "watts per foot".. which are the small lights (not LED).
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
They are 4ft tall and about 3ft wide or so to fit over a 12" pots. Thing is they will all over winter in the ground here no problem. BUT we have no yard since its a apartment and I want to keep the size as well.
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
If I put a string of mini lights (incandescent, not LED) around a basjoo p-stem, do I haveto keep the bulbs from touching the stem, to prevent burning? If so, how do I do that?
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
John I would keep them from touching the plant. In the past I always used non-LED lights over my final covering as a way to raise the ambient temperature around the plant (and only when it got brutally cold), but never on the plant itself. I don't know if it would affect the plant or not, just being safe. I think in the case of using lights and nothing else, you would need some kind of enclosure to put the lights on around the stems, but still be close enough for the warmth to help. Maybe stakes that you can drape them on???
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Re: Normal x-mas lights work?
eric27 Thank you for the quick reply! I have always just wrapped the basjoos with newspapers, then covered them with leaves, and, finally covered the whole thing with a tarp, to keep it dry. This has been very successful. I have some that have been in the ground for five years like this. However, sometimes, I have had to cut a few inches of mushy stem off the tyop of the p-stem. I would really like to kep the stem intact, so I had a head start in the spring. I was afraid that the little bulbs woul burn the stems, or, if I kept them in the leaves, they could start a fire. A local botanical garden, several years ago, decided they wanted to move their basjoo mat. They dug out several pups, and planted them in the new location, and just abandoned the old planting-no protection, or anything, and it still comes back, year after year.
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