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Looking good Steve. What about a aquarium heater to keep the jugs of water from freezing. They can be turned up quite high.
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
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Posted : 03/10/2009 12:11 am
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John, Think I have a spare 200W heater, maybe try that in a 5 gallon bucket and see what happens?
With no heat, temps. inside the shelter held a steady 5*F above ambient all night, (38* this morning, 43*F inside)
Steve
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Posted : 03/10/2009 10:01 am
looks good Steve. I like that the window will open and close it what I was meaning. A place to let out heat on warmer days. 😀 😆
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Posted : 03/10/2009 1:29 pm
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Thanks Aaron, I knew what you meant 😀
Was having trouble with the window, took me a couple tries to get the right size opening. (I forgot it had to be installed backward to put the latches on the outside........lol
Steve
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Posted : 03/10/2009 10:00 pm
Sure looks good. Amazing the care you give your plants. 😀
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-Aaron-
Posted : 03/10/2009 10:40 pm
I'm gealous Steve! I have some serious building to do pretty soon along with digging. I dug up one banana so far woo hoo! Just 15 more to go, not to bad except most of them are pretty hefty in size. Time for some wheaties again I guess.
I'll post some pictures of the banana seperating operation I did, it will help in removing pups.
Great job Steve, you must have a feeling of relief now.
Bill
Posted : 04/10/2009 9:58 am
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It's nice to have everything ready!
I had two Ensete glaucum planted out, they only grew a couple feet this year. Hardly any roots either when I dug them up?
Musa basjoo grew well in that area last year, I'll have to figure out what I was doing wrong 😀
Steve
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Posted : 04/10/2009 11:06 am
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The shelter has worked well, but has grown too small. Been setting it up on cinder blocks the past two winters for extra height.
I'll build a lighter one this year.......... The old one now serves here 😀
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Posted : 22/05/2013 3:54 pm
You got a new pup!
😀
Hmmm...cinder blocks to raise the height.
Wondering if I should do that for my Trachy hut.
Barb
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Posted : 25/05/2013 5:50 pm
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