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["Griffin Gardens" <griffingardens@earthlink.net>]

  Thanks to all for the suggestions. Tanis, my attempt a couple of years
ago to make the inside of my house into a tropical rain forest met with
dismal results. It seems that the house has an inexhaustible capacity to
suck the moisture out of the air as fast as I can pump it in. I blame
myself, for my overuse of wood in the decor - floors, ceiling, and walls -
and a suspicion that all that xylem tissue somehow survived the kiln and
was still functioning, transporting water directly to the windows, where it
would then cascade over the panes in beautiful if not tropical streams,
then to collect in gorgeous reflective pools on the later to be refinished
window sills. My conclusion had to be that when the temps drop below 0, its
not the tropics anymore, and you just can't create them and have windows
too. 
  Maybe I should be looking at this another way. I have a storage room that
has a small but south facing window. The temp stays at around 50 F, which
should present a more manageable moisture problem. If I built a shelf at
the base of the window and I could get a little light on the cuttings,
especially now that the sun angle has increased to the point where the
fiery orb ascends to hang in the sky for a few hours a day above the 3" lip
of the window well. Oh, glorious Sol! I would guess that growth would slow
under these conditions, but the frost free date here is around June first,
so there is plenty of time. The question is, will the cuttings  continue to
grow in this environment and, more importantly, to develop roots ? 

Dave
 


> [Original Message]
> From: tanis cuff <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
 > Date: 1/18/04 11:00:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] School P/ Indoor Plants
>
> Open the plastic coverings gradually, and do everything you can to
increase 
> the relative humidity of the room:  If you heat with wood, keep a kettle 
> boiling on the stove.  If you have central heat, cook more rice, bean
soup, 
> etc; and hang up a lot of hand-laundry.  Get a conventional humidifier,
and 
> keep it filled and running.   Back off if you see water running down the 
> windows.  And best of luck.
> 
> tc, who has tried it
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> To: griffingardens@earthlink.net,North American Fruit Explorers 
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] School P/ Indoor Plants
> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:50:07 -0500
> 
> Hello,
> 
> You can always place pots on a tray of gravel, (pea stone) that is
holding 
> water.  The water
> evaporating around the plants increases humidity.  There are also
ultrasonic 
> humidifiers that are
> very effective in a room.
> 
> Use filtered water in an ultrasonic, or they will produce dust in the
room.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> Griffin Gardens wrote:
> 
>  > Can anyone comment/advise on these and other practices to deal with
these
>  > over-dry indoor growing conditions of winter? I am trying a rooting
>  > experiment with hardwood peach cuttings which are just now breaking
bud.
>  > They have been and still are under plastic but I expect this will be
too
>  > humid in the long run, while at the same time, I am reluctant to expose
>  > them to the further stress of the indoor winter desert.
>  >
>  > Dave
>  >
> 
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