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Cactus Cultivars => Pictures from My Collection & Visits to Other Collections => Topic started by: Arioandi on Sunday, 18 December 2011 - 20:28:40

Title: My greenhouse today...
Post by: Arioandi on Sunday, 18 December 2011 - 20:28:40
Wintertime...

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Post by: Carlo & Daniele on Sunday, 18 December 2011 - 20:38:22
woah...just a little bit of snow!
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Post by: Insomnia_KR on Sunday, 18 December 2011 - 20:41:26
ouch... ???
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Post by: cortona on Sunday, 18 December 2011 - 23:46:26
ouch, wath a snowcover! this is better tan no snow and strong freeze but is ever something like an nigtamare for southern grower like me!
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Post by: cactuspassion on Monday, 19 December 2011 - 08:57:55
HHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! Where do you come from?? Here in Quebec city, no snow yet.
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Post by: fanecchissimo on Monday, 19 December 2011 - 09:01:45
so nice! :)

how big is it?

will you have to clean the roof to avoid damages?

i am curious.. here snow is 10cm at most, in those snowy years...
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Post by: gattopardo on Monday, 19 December 2011 - 18:01:51
do I have to come to find you with the cat of the snows..???
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Post by: Ariocarpus on Monday, 19 December 2011 - 19:17:19
Whoa!  :o
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Post by: xwa27 on Monday, 19 December 2011 - 19:41:35
i thing lott of heaters inside. because i thing  you can freeze a bull inside. am joking 
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Post by: Arioandi on Monday, 19 December 2011 - 19:57:55
Hi all,
We got about 70cm of snow in 2 days. I live in the Swiss mountains on 1270m above sea level, so snow in wintertime is normal, we are a ski-station.

The greenhouse is about 10m2, I heat it with 2 electric heaters, 2000 W each. It is covered with double-skin sheets on Plexigasl. The biggest problem on days like this is the condensed water and the drops, falling on the plants.

But normally the bigger problem is the sun in wintertime. If it does not snow, very often we have sunny days in winter, so the temperature goes up to 25°C in the greenhouse also in wintertime and teh plants are shrinking a lot. I sunny winters, I heat higher in February and begin to water...
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Post by: xwa27 on Monday, 19 December 2011 - 20:10:33
I ALWAYS SAY YOUR BIG  ;) GREAT PASSION
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Post by: Nata Ellis on Monday, 19 December 2011 - 20:39:49
Please, send us some snow in the box :) by priority airmail :)

here in Ukraine (Odessa) we had very dry spring, extremely dry summer and no rains during the autumn... now we have... rains... a lot of rains... every day... and no snow at all  :(
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Post by: Arioandi on Monday, 19 December 2011 - 21:51:12
That's about what we had before the snow came...
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Post by: dag on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 - 20:23:13
do you have a tunnel from your house to your greenhouse ?
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Post by: marazz53 on Friday, 30 December 2011 - 19:27:41
Hi Andi, Impressive...Keep up your good work...
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Post by: marazz53 on Saturday, 31 December 2011 - 20:19:40
Hi Andi, try covering the roof from the inside with a large sheet of plastic and tilt it a bit so that condensation goes to a corner where you do not have plants. Try a quarter of your greenhouse as a test. What do you think??? ;)
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Post by: Arioandi on Saturday, 31 December 2011 - 20:54:38
I have only one small place in the greenhous, where condensate drops on the plants. I took the plants away, so it is no problem. Tommorrow we will have sun, so condensate will dry out.
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Post by: marazz53 on Sunday, 01 January 2012 - 22:06:42
Hi Andi, OK, keep it up, cos your plants are GREAT and it's a pity to loose any...