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Olafhenny · 12-03-2013, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Sting_stong

Thanks Olaf.

Have you ever measured your box's internal temperature? I'm wondering what the lowest possible temperature was (and for how long) the corm could withstand.

No, KJ, but you brought up an interesting point. I recently acquired this min/max
thermometer Min-Max Thermometer - Lee Valley Tools, which
I loaned to a neighbour, who had a large sun room added to his house last summer.
Lots of light, but no heat. He agreed to look after some of my plants in this room on
the south side of his house.

Actually his sun room is ideal for an experiment, I have in mind, to test the cold
hardiness of some of my plants, specifically an oleander, which is Mediterranean by
origin and should consequently be hardy to minus 5 and a quat citrus (Fortunella
japonica (Thunberg) Swingle), which is purported to be hardy to -10^C. The min/max
will measure and record the coldest and the warmest temperature since it was reset
the last time.

My neighbour will record at which temperature they succumbed to frost or otherwise,
which were the coldest temperatures, they actually survived, while I will be in Vietnam
this winter.

After it was already to late and my shelters were sealed it occurred to me. that it
would have been a good idea to insert one of these thermometers into each of the
shelters, to find out, how cold it did get in there during the winter. Well, there is
always next winter.

If anybody is interested there is a lot about this very attractive citrus here:
Seeds for Quất, possibly the most attractive and hardy citrus… In Vietnam
it serves as the equivalent of our Christmas tree and is displayed everywhere
during Tet.

I am getting more seeds this trip. so let me know.

Best,
Olaf