Hippeastrelia "Durga Pradhan" cold tolerance
J.E. Shields (Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:40:55 PST)
Tony,
It sounds to me like you have the makings of a cold-hardy breeding program
already going there!
If you want to field-test a few in Indiana, just let me know.......
Best wishes,
Jim Shields
in central Indiana, where our coldest temperatures so far this winter were
an unreal +11°F
At 12:27 PM 1/2/2007 -0500, you wrote:
......... During this same
6-year period, we had no luck overwintering x Hippeastrealia 'Durga
Pradhan' in many different locations, but when we grew seedlings from
this, we had had 100% surivability for 4 years, with a low temperature
of 8 degrees F. This includes 1-year old seedlings in the ground with
no winter protection. I have also had 100% survival from x
Hippeastrealia 'Red Beauty', surviving the same temperatures mentioned
above.
Tony Avent
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