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The Greenhouse Effect Part 1

18 years ago

Doesn't matter if it's blistery cold and windy or not but when da sun does shinith, my prophouse will warm up like a golfer in fancy pants and a cotton dress shirt.

Today I fixed this. This poly is like painting my greenhouse with thick white paint. Dropped the temps 20 F degrees. That's why the propagators use this on their hoophouses.

Looking forward to a great grafting year. I finally have everything in check but my humidity. Hopefully that will also be in check over the next several days. I LOVE GRAFTING like a monkey loves his banana...... :-----)

Dax

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Comments (14)

  • 18 years ago

    Looks pretty bleak there, must be great to be able to duck into that greenhouse and play with plants.

  • 18 years ago

    Yes I get a little bored. But I'm "Expecting" soon.

    Dax

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  • 18 years ago

    What a great set-up, Dax! I'm very happy for you.

    So tell us what you've got cookin' in that little oven!

    Kim

  • 18 years ago

    It's bad isn't it Kim.

    I gotsa cookin' white root flares out of my understock pots so that means it's grafting time. I'm about to put another edge on my knife after this post and go check out the soil to see if anything needs watering.

    I'm grafting about 12 Spruce I think, 16 soft pines, and about 50 maybe more, maybe less hard pines; I have about 26-27 Ginkgo, 2 Beech, and 6 Taxodium with maybe 10 Japanese Maple.

    Seeds I have going stuff for friends and myself. I've only to date sown a dozen or 16 things, I don't know. Cuttings, I have left 30 or so from 39 Thuja 'Hetz Wintergreen' and I have 20 or so 'Rosencran's' and another cultivar of Thuja occ., 'St. John's Mini' - only about 8 of those.

    Got a lot of cultivar Japanese Maples to sow in March - the 18th is the magic number each month, and some more conifers to sow in Feb on the 18th.

    So I'm growing seedlings and grafts for several friends. All are people from here actually.

    See ya (--:

    Dax

  • 18 years ago

    That setup wouldn't last long here . . . if I'd tried it here last weekend, the plastic sheets would be in Norway by now ;-)

    Resin

  • 18 years ago

    Would not be a problem if you lived down south :)

  • 18 years ago

    This plastic is extremely thick. Got it from a friend so don't know the degree of thickness but I'll letcha know when or if it takes off toward Norway........ I hope to prove anyone wrong!

    Dax

  • 18 years ago

    "Would not be a problem if you lived down south :)"

    Forecast tonight . . .
    "Plymouth: Southwesterly gale force 8 increasing severe gale force 9 soon ... Lundy: Southwesterly gale force 8 increasing storm force 10 soon"

  • 18 years ago

    Forecast tonight . . .
    "Plymouth: Southwesterly gale force 8 increasing severe gale force 9 soon ... Lundy: Southwesterly gale force 8 increasing storm force 10 soon"

    Resin,

    Please explain that to a Kansas boy that only knows MPH.

    Feel free to come down to my level.

    Dave

  • 18 years ago

    Hi Dave

    Very, very windy . . .

    This link gives details in imperial measures and pictograms

    Resin

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.stormfax.com/beaufort.htm

  • 18 years ago

    easy chart to understand - suits me, and yes it is a touch windy here today.

  • 18 years ago

    Very informative. Do you live near the coast?

    Dave

  • 18 years ago

    My platic screen passed the "Gale" and "Strong Gale" forces two nights ago. Winds here were 30-50 miles per hour.

    So far so good. I did add extra nails yesterday morning however.

    Dax

  • 18 years ago

    Dave - If you mean me ! yes I do live near the coast.

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