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botaniqueer · 22 days ago

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Not to bring up more Bad News, especially since we're already drowing in it in the first month of the year, but in Seattle it's January and we still haven't had our first real frost of the year yet, which is Not a good sign!!

We've have some light frost just from the typical cold air falling to the ground but no sustained sub-0°C temps. When the nasturtiums are all still alive in the PNW there is something very wrong

#I wonder if any of the Capsicum species are going to live aside from the weird ones like C. pubescens #which are able to tolerate the cold anyways as long as they don't get frostbitten #I think the C. chinense and C. baccatum are all dead as expected #I've had C. annuum survive a normal winter before (though not well enough to re-foliate and succumb to infection later in the spring)

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