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by The 🌪️cataclysmic catastrophe❄️ of Vando0sa. . 338 reads.

Freeze Scale for Tropical Gardeners

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http://s679.photobucket.com/user/LordGodXentra/library/Garden?sort=3&page=1
There is horribly freezing weather lately so I'll just toff a snip from a previous conversation I had with someone who argued that Celsius is better than Fahrenheit:

I can agree metric is a better system.. But for temperature regarding weather conditions Fahrenheit is better.. At least for folks who grow tropical plants outside of their comfort zones..

Over time I've come up with my own scale to what will kill sensitive plants..

31-32F is a light freeze and will only cause minor damage to leaves.

28-30F is a normal freeze that will cause severe damage to leaves and tips to more sensitive plants but the stem could survive and recover.

25-27F is a hard freeze capable of completely killing all sensitive vegetation down to the roots and even then some plants will not recover.

Those 3 are not the full scale I made though.. but as far as most tropical plants 25F is deadly..

17-24F is a ground freeze that will not only decimate all tropical plants but cause damage to native plants that are out of dormancy when this occurs. Also called ground freeze as I've noticed the ground starts to freeze solid and have ice shoot up.

1-16F I call deep freeze as that normally kills everything and freezes the ground and even ponds.

Thinking of adding another one to the scale as last Winter produced temperatures that completely killed plants that normally can survive here..

***Update***

I have added Excessive Freeze to the scale. Temperatures 0F and below have killed off all life in my ponds as well as some bushes and shrubs that normally survive for many Winters.

Reason I believe Fahrenheit is better than Celsius in weather is The difference of light freeze to hard freeze in Fahrenheit is 8 and the difference between hard freeze and light freeze in Celsius is less than 4.. Fahrenheit gives you a better idea of what plants you need to move indoors and what plants could survive.. Some tropicals can even survive below 0F (-18C) but only very few.. Most die in the area just below freezing..

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