I really know the feeling...the critters are my real problem not the
temperatures. -22 here this am without wind-chill
Critters certainly love all maples and hornbeams
.....I put moth balls in the storage area before
I seal it in. Some years I even used the electronic buzzers type.
Sealing them in a box of hardware cloth ( coarse screen) inside the storage
really works
but is a pain to set up.
Interesting that you can put tridents in storage. It is too cold for them
here.
I greenhouse them here around Thanksgiving and keep them there until
May...I defoliate before taking them outside in the spring.
Good luck and keep growing
Pauline F Muth Zone 4 West Charlton NY USA
www.pfmbonsai.com




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Subject: [IBC] Frozen pots and watering.


Thanks Pauline. I had been going with the same setup as you for the past
fifteen years and it worked fine until last year when I was attacked by
rodents
that wiped out all my tridents and hornbeams and many of my Japanese
Maples.
Thanks.

Mike Waterhouse
Litchfield, Maine
Zone 4b

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