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  • From: "GIANNI-2" <GIANNI-2@prodigy.net>
  • To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Re: Cold
  • Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:36:33 -0400

Hi Chris:
 
Your welcome, Sadly... I guess your right it wouldn't reach you in time.
The only suggestion I could make other than let me send you some is to do a
engine search in your area and see if you can find someone locally that has
any kind of cold processed seaweed kelp liquid or dry hydrolyzed and get it on
there before it starts raining as it has to be absorbed through the crop/plant
to work and begin to offer some protection.
You may lose fruit but you wont lose your crops/plants in a freeze.
If you do have some fruit survive the stuff I send you will not only band-aid the
fruit that survived but boost your crops/plants if there are any more freezes
you'll be ready...  And you'll get terrific results.
 
Got any tiki torches? J/K
 
Best wishes,
Gianni
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 3:48 PM
Subject: [nafex] Re: Cold

Gianni,
     Thanks for the kind offer, but I think being in Pennsylvania,
and needing it by tomorrow night (or possibly tonight) its wouldn't
get here in time (and its unlikely I'd get to spray it.) I'm going to
try several ideas: 
1) Set up my sprinkler in one place
2) Cover what I can and place filled water jugs under the covering.
3) Hang miniature christmas lights on one apricot.

See what happens and watch the forcast.

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6

--- In nafex@y..., "GIANNI-2" <GIANNI-2@p...> wrote:
> Hello Bob & Chris:
> Thanks Bob...
> Thanks Gordon...
>
> I have the kelp spray Chris. It may help and your not far from me
in NH.
> Send me an e-mail and I'll send you some to try. You may be very
surprised!
>
> Best wishes,
> Gianni
>
> S-NH Z 5/6
>
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Robert L. Thomasson
>   To: INTERNET:nafex@y...
>   Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:20 PM
>   Subject: [nafex] Cold
>
>
>   Chris,
>
>   I'm experimenting with a spray on product that was suggested by
Gordon
>   Nofs.   The company that sells it is Abscission Organics, phone
>   603-392-9330, e-mail Gianni-2@p...   They send a sizable free
>   sample, and also give a discount to Nafex members.  It's probably
too late
>   to get any in time for the next cold snap, though.  
>
>   I've never lost a tree to a late freeze.  They get damaged and
suffer a
>   setback,  but as soon as the warm weather returns, so does the
greenery.
>
>   - Bob
>
>   >  It's been a cool, damp spring here, so much flowering, growth
has  been
>   delayed, but things have begun to push (apricot began flowering 
last
>   weekend)  Tonight temperatures are predicted in the low 30s and 
Wednesday
>   night I've seen predictions as low as 27 degrees.  If I  lose my
fruit crop
>   for the year so be it, but on a number of plants  the leaf buds
have
>   elongated and are starting to open.  I'm concerned  that the buds
might be
>   killed and I might lose the plants.  Is this a  legitimate
concern? 
>
>   I can set up a sprinkler in one place, but my plantings are
somewhat
>   scattered.  If we do get to 27 degrees I'm not sure a sprinkler
would
>   help.
>
>   Any suggestions? 
>
>   Chris Mauchline SE PA, zone 6
>
>   P.S. One thought I had (since many of my plantings are small)
was  that I
>   could drape the plants with buds the furthest out with wet 
towels.
>
>
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