Hello to All,


just a bit to all.Tropical is somewhere around 20 to 33 deg C
[ 70 to 90 deg.F] with heavy rainfall,low/no rainfall,high humidity,
low humidity,dips to high teens deg.C [ on the mountains the
trees tolerate 55 deg.F even light frost.] but there is no real
winter/ice/and so on.

Florida is still Sub-Tropical,no matter how much you dream
of beaches and Mickey Mouse.

I do wish others would keep using the proper terms.In the
Tropics the high mountain areas have their own zones.

Orange trees do not need heat pots down here and orange
skins stay green when ripe.The blood oranges do not do
well,oranges have been cross bred to withstand the tropical
temperature,but it is a cool sub-tropical with warm temperate
cousins.

A true tropical would die in Miami,without protection.
Khaimraj
[ West Indies/Caribbean,
the true tropics,zone of sea modified climate.]


-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Cowing
To:
Date: 28 July 2003 5:36
Subject: [IBC] Not a challenge- [IBC] Hmmm was/ Is this a Bonsai?


Why somebody in Florida wouldn't want to do tropicals is beyond me!

Craig Ccowing
NY
Zone 5b/6a Sunset 37

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