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  • From: "Dean Kreutzer" <deankreutzer@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Hardiness Additional info
  • Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:49:34 -0600

One additional thing that is important to note is the duration that the plant is exposed to extreme temperatures. A sustained exposure to -40F temps for a day would probably do more damage than an hour at -45F temps. At the University of Saskatchewan last year they had -49F for 1 hour, and some of their cherries escaped with no damage. Lon has also mentioned that there are some Montana vitis riparia grapes that have survived -70F temps. I have to be honest, after supercooling fails at -40F I don't know what process allows plants to survive these extremes.

Dean Kreutzer
Regina, Saskatchewan Canada
USDA zone 3





  • [NAFEX] Hardiness Additional info, Dean Kreutzer, 10/19/2004

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