Just like that it’s changed again. Even colder.

Geez Mike, haven’t heard from you lately, come on cheer up a bit. Most of us already forgot this winter and spring. I thought I am done with hard work, now I am going right back in. Going in blueberry and avocado. Bought 2 blueberry plants and grafted 2 avocado trees.Also grafted a few pluots/plums and a few pears. Today , my new fig sions will be in, this all for grafting. I spoke to soon when I told that I was done grafting.

Amy, Laura, Brian, a few others, give us a few minutes of your precious time.

Hey Bob, winter and early spring has not even left yet. lol Only a couple of warm days and that has been about it. More of a Arctic air flow almost every day since the end of the winter months. We had more snow in April than the entire winter here. We should of had this type of weather pattern in winter,not now which I think is going to cut right into summer too,and now they are saying the flu is sticking around longer here because we can't kick out these cold temps. Help@!! lol Good to hear from you and I am glad you are getting lots done. Enjoy while you can. I see many here started months ago with summer and true spring temps and I have yet to get started(

Bob, I really thought there would be much more action here with everyone stuck inside these days. They must all be outside then)

Yes, I miss them all, so hopefully they will let us know how things have been. Good to see you have not been affected by the virus at all.

The weather has just been so all over the place. My forecast has a couple days coming that could be as low as 30 degrees.

Mike, families have to adjust to the new normal, everybody is home 24/7, things are a little different for a while. We have a government that’s totally dysfunctional. When you open their brain(if they have one) is full off coins. I guess we don’t know how to structure a forum. We just limb around. A revolving door or like a filling station, cum and go.

I am retired right at 20 years, so I am use to solitary confinement, this is not a problem.

" ... I really thought there would be much more action here with everyone stuck inside these days...."

Hey Mike, I've been so busy moving citrus in and out with the weather, I haven't had time to check the forums! LOL! They hate cold windy days, so I move them back inside until the weather settles down. Of course, since I'm home I have the luxury of doing that as opposed to when I was going in to the office.

My 1 seed grown Meiwa kumquat is a 3/4 mile from home and the pot's pedistal is barried deep. I will have to take it. Two other Meiwa kumquats and my NZL/Seville are on my roof 40 feet up. I will rope them Down. Thank goodness they are sill in their 5 gallon buckets with handles. All my other potted citrus is within 10 feet of my Door. My green houses would be completely down If solar acclimation wasn't so hard. It will take an hour to cover them. The heaters were removed 1.5 m0nths ago.

Anyone who's followed any of my recent posts knows I'm dealing with extreme heat. I'm sorry you can't get out of the cold Mike! I'd send some hot hair your way if I could. The temp may be high for me, but at least it's stable. I don't have the move in/move out revolving door you're experiencing. Stay with it though, your trees are counting on you :)

Gotta bring them all in again! Some more frosty nights ahead. So sick of this! We had a mild winter and now we are paying for it. A few plants will probably be somewhat protected being under an eave, but anything blooming or with a lot of tender new growth will need to come in.

Dave that shocks me for way down there. You know something is wrong with this weather when the cold gets that deep into the south this time of the year. Heck only a month and it will be summer and the longest day of the year. I don't get this at all. Good luck) It drives me nuts too. Yup, the bloooms and nice growing new leaves look like crap after a few very cold nights. Good thing we have strong backs and time to do it before the darkness settles in that day.

Travis, thanks my friend. I wish yours would see cooler days too. I hope there is a change soon. You are right, my trees would of been dead or very sickly if I didn't keep up. The revolving door, lol. I love it. I think it's going to get warm finally by the middle of next week. Here highs should be in the seventies and lows 50's. This weekend it will get no higher than 45 degrees and snow possibly...Ugh

Bob, that makes sense, but Brian has no family except a dog. I miss him and many others too. Hope they are all well, unless they are all vacationing at your place and you forgot to invite me. Ha

Steve, thank goodness they are. Gee

It's crazy how opposite our experiences are right now, and I wish we could all have a little bit of each other's weather--you could have some warmth and I could have some chill.
I keep getting frustrated with how weepy my Meyer has been the last two weeks with this heat wave. I just took temps and my soil is holding at 80 degrees but my leaf temps are close to 100 degrees. That's in the shade. No wonder it's struggling!
Hang in there, your days of roller-coaster weather are bound to end soon!

I'm a few minutes from Dave, but unless they put a freeze warning, I'm going to let the plants ride out this little storm. They've had monsoons, 30mph winds, and mid thirties so far through this "spring" fling. Branches and leaves torn off and pots toppled. Pretty sure mother nature is upset with us... disease, weather, and murder hornets (and lots of rabbits). Best of luck all those suffering from swelter in the southwest to the coming polar vortex.

@Ken "Fruity Paws" (N-Va 7a) what a nightmare! Just goes to show there are worse things than extreme heat.

Mike, I only have 3extra bedrooms. Since I only have 3 friends here, you have to wait till fall. Hope you like to eat fish everyday. Jan, might know about Amy.

Bob, well, there's broiled fish, fried fish, crab-stuffed oven-baked fish, fish tacos, fish sandwich, fish soup, fish salad.....

weather is emulating what is happening in the world ... from covid to politics. get used to it ... wear a clothespin on your nose .... lol

Dave, if you know how to cook, you are invited. Chef Dave sounds good to me! Hope all of us are still around.

Yup, long days and cold weather make a strange unnatural combination. I brought in my avocado and night Jasmine after they were pummeled by cold winds. The mild winter makes the frigid spring even more jarring. Looks like we have another week or two of cold weather left this May.

Mike- We had a warm March and everything started growing.I planted some early (cold tolerant) vegetable and flower seeds too. We then had a FREEZE of about 26-27 degrees in April. Hosta leaves turned to mush. My Davidia tree was finally flowering size and putting out leaves and lots of flowers...........all the branches killed. Roses were "burned" on the leaf edges. Seedlings perished. Sigh. Hostas put out new leaves in the cool April, but we are supposed to get wind and 32 tonight. Oh well, we can all vent together. I feel bad for farmers that have to depend on all this for their livelyhood..........weather has been extreme. Always someone that has it worst than you........so be thankful for what you have and the good things.

Polar vortex in Ontario. 20 F colder seasonal temperature for the ENTIRE month of May. The West coast has a heat wave. I was planning on putting my cactus outdoors soon but I am having second thoughts. Not sure if a germination heating pad would be rated for outdoor use?

Hi, Dave in NoVa, I believe we live in the same county? I have already brought in my plants one time, and finally, last week after checking the forecast for the month of May, where we were supposed to have only 2 nights in the upper 30's, I took them all out again last Saturday, and now, tonight and tomorrow night it's supposed to go down to 33!! I have moved them all close to the house and was thinking of putting nylon sheeting over them lightly to protect them for these two nights. What do you think? I really don't relish having to cart them all back in again.

In answer to the first question ... bleep yes!!! It has been much too hot. Though, from reading this, I ought not to complain at all. However, ... yes.

My citrus will be fine, but I've got a whole lot of other tropicals that I just don't know how they will take the upcoming lows. I've had mine out since early March, which is unheard of (early) for me. But I don't think they are well acclimated to take this cold.

We're expecting temps at or below freezing over night here over the next several days.

I had to bring my fig plants back into the garage because we're expecting high 20's overnight in swOH. A also covered my grape vines to hopefully save the few remaining clusters. Half of them fell off the first time we got a hard freeze in late April. Stupid polar vortex.

Its difficult.

Snowed here last night 8/9 May.

After they called for a freeze warning where I'm at, I moved most of my pots back in and covered my tomato and peppers. Oddly enough, just like the last cold spurt a few weeks ago, my large lemon, mandarin, and calamadins which didn't come in due to size weren't bothered. Luckily, only got to 35. One more night for the freeze warning and hopefully, freedom for all the plants! Hope everyone's plants make it tonight as well.

Latest forcast call for a partia eruption of the Yellowstone volcano in early june with enough sulfur dioxide pumped into the air that we will get frost 1 out of 5 days throughout July, August, and heavy snow in early September.

Steve

Oh no! Let's hope the forecasters have it wrong.

Steve, that forecast... if it blows out pumice like some volcanos, that would make a great lightweight gritty mix. Personally, I'd enjoy a snow flurry during the summer doldrums. But if we're going to have winter year round, I need to replace my citrus with something more hardy.

Ken, how about South Carolina, got friends there, they like it a lot. Muggy!!, bugs.!!

Yes, I am Huntsville, Alabama, zone 7a technically. However, I am switching from zone 8 to zone 6 in one week, sometimes in one day. One day I am on the Gulf coast and the next I am in Ohio.

Bob, I'm originally from the lowcountry in SC and get back there regularly. They've got citrus greening (and quarantine) along the coastline. I think where I'm at just outside Washington DC gets almost as bad with mosquito swarms, heat, and humidity. The plus side of being in Virginia is there is a 20% chance of having 4 seasons (eg. seeing snow) which I love and I have the Shenandoah mountains an hours drive which is pretty nice. I'm definitely looking at getting away from the urban area though.

Ken, Charleston was one of my favorite vacation stops , like the downtown architecture. Where I am now, suit’s me just fine, got everything here, besides cheap living.

Like to know what it looks like now, 20 some odd years later.

Snowed here last night and again today. I even brought the basket of pansies inside.