On Jun 9, 2005, at 5:30 PM, Jim Lewis wrote:
Craig Cowing wrote:
It's hot here. I suppose I won't get any sympathy from the
southerners on the list. Today hit 94F, the next few days are
supposed to be about the same. I watered twice today and plan to do
so until the heat breaks.
If my cacti could talk they'd tell me they feel right at home.
94 degrees will always elicit sympathy. That's hot -- hotter, in
fact, than anything we have had here, so far.
That's not good, if it's hotter than Florida.
If I remember your bonsai area, there's not a lot of shade. I seem
to remember a tree in front, but . . .
A paper mulberry out back shades the kingsvilles and some of the
deciduous trees and the hemlocks. Pines and conifers, and the tougher
deciduous are in full sun. We have the tropicals under shade right now
since they just came out last week because it was too cold at night
before then. Fancy that.
Anyway, I'd water as early as possible in the morning, and then at
about 5 p.m. Watering during the hottest part of the day can cause
plants to wilt. It's temporary, but they do often droop. I think
it's because they don't like hot water on their leaves. ?????
I haven't noticed any wilting.
We had a thundershower at 2 p.m. Now (a little before 5:30) several
of my trees are droopy -- oddly, most are tropicals, though the
flowers on my one late-blooming azalea are wilted, too. Those too
will perk up.
Cheer up. At least you shouldn't have those temperatures every day
from July through early September.
Very true. But it's only early June.
Also, you have a brewmistress right there in the house, so just pop
open one of those home-brewed cool ones.
She hasn't started brewing yet!! (Anita, are you reading this?)
Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature encourages
no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Craig Cowing
NY
Zone 5b/6a Sunset 37
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