"Nad R" wrote in message
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote:
Billy wrote:
In article ,
chancethegardnr wrote:

hello this is my first posting on here and i hope somebody can help.
my tomoatoes in the greenhouse are still not flowering although some
are about 15 inches high. i'm concerned i planted them out too late
- last weekend. i am however near glasgow so the greenhouse even now
still drops to 5-10 degrees at night. will they eventually flower?
i'm hoping they will i've planted out 30 of them!

You need a soil temp of 70F, and night time temps in the 50Fs for
tomatoes. Ten degrees Fahrenheit would flat out kill a tomato plant,
so you must either not know how to read a thermometer, or you are a
troll.

Billy, who clearly is not a troll must be having a severe bout of
American Parochialism. The fit comes on them and they have to go and lie
down in a dark room and not type for a few hours. Fear not he will
recover.

The civilised world uses thermometers with degrees Celsius. Yes there
are some exceptions like Liberia and Burma, oh and the USA for some
reason. Your tribe will want us to go back to the Julian calendar soon so
you can get those 13 days back in your lives.

David

In defense of Billy, the OP was giving mixed measurements. Why state
inches
instead of using the metric system like in meters?

Possibly, like me, the OP grew up learning Imperial measures in school and
then at some stage in his/her life, his/her country converted to using
metric measures.

I still (mostly) use inches and feet for height of both plants and people.
I have trained myself to know that 30cm is roughly a foot and that it is
about 5cm to 2 inches but I am constantly doing conversions between inches
and cms.

Perhaps those in the UK
uses a mixed system of measures. After all who came up with the "English
Pound"?

At first I felt the OP had made a mistake is typing the numbers.

There is no way any UK poster would use a mixed system whereby they'd use
the term "English pound". Anyone from the UK who'd use that term has
already been dead for about 150 years.