Might be more like a mood ring... I do notice when they are fighting they will turn brown. Or.................................

Here's a good example of the color change.

And like I said.... Broadhead skink.

The 5 lined skink is the coolest we have here, they have a florescent blue tail.

Looks like we're going to see some coldness this weekend.... Hope it's not too cold.

Yeah, we're supposed to drop to about 30F Sunday night.

I'm going to have so many lights and blankets on my trees that it will look like aliens have landed in my yard. Jack Frost can put that in his pipe and smoke it!

Ill just cover my Key lime and bring my potted stuff into the garage. I dont expect anything bad, we are on average about 10 degrees cooler than Orlando thanks to being in a river basin(who said FL is flat?) but havent had any issues with frost on anything else yet.

I see a lot of the Jamacan anoles(the brown ones) and very few of the greenies. But on the bright side, a good cold spell will push the brown ones back south, they do not adapt to the cold at all.

As I clear my palmetto scrub by hand(the thick 8' tall stuff you cannot walk through with about 2 foot of floating dead trash on the ground between them) I have run into a few snakes. Just pretty corn and rat snakes, a black racer I didnt try and catch, and a big colony of blind worm snakes. I was warned we have plenty of pygmy rattlers but I havent seen them yet.

Getting bit by a pygmy is worse than a larger rattler. You are much more likely to get a full dose of venom. You are much less likely to see them and may just be reaching to pick something up when you get hit.

Serious stuff!

Temps are dropping fast!

I think this will be the end of winter. http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/North+Charleston+SC+29418

I certainly hope so. Lots of tender vegatation to be exposed tonight.

I have a product that is a new technology that is not a fertilizer in the traditional sense. It increases the plant roots ability to uptake minerals. I put it on my plants all fall and winter. It also seems to help plants with cold weather. I never cover anything when it gets freezing.

I only have 16 trees in my small yard, but containers or in ground, all stay outside during my mild Houston winters.

I do agree this is a strange February!

I know nothing about Dave's product. It might be a great product, and work wonderfully, I would certainly hope that is the case. It is for each user to determine for themselves. I would just say, that a citrus tree's root system does not push water up and through the tree. Water movement in a citrus tree, known as the transpiration stream, is not pushed, but rather is PULLED up throughout the tree by the leaves. As water is transpired out of a citrus leaf, it pulls water up from the roots. It has been long ago found that among several factors, the single most important ingredient in how much, or how little, water that is pulled up, is due to light on the leaf's surface. Light is the most important regulator. Since the concentration of the transpiration stream must be very dilute by necessity, it is evident that a large amount of water must flow through the leaf during its life time. To increase one unit of growth in the tree's dry weight, it requires the evaporation from the tree in the amount of 300 to 500 times as much water. That's not to say Dave's product does not work. It might work and work wonderfully, but I would think, if it does, it must be by some other mode of action. - Millet

Plants are not my career, so my developed product is not on the market yet. Only a limited number of selected people have seen it. I haven't advertised it and the website is blocked from search engines, so it cannot be searched for.

It was suggested by some smart chemists and others that increased nutrient uptake was what they thought was happening. I highly respect Millet's opinion and must therefore add her thoughts to those I have received. It may be something that professionals may not want need, but I think there are many who struggle with plant care as I have until now.

My goals are not to produce great-looking plants, though that is nice, but to make more food for mankind. There is a problem. The population J-curve is exploding. Farm land continues to be replaced by home sub-divisions. Remaining farms have to become more productive even if mankind can solve his future fresh water problem. I think people at home will start gardening more seriously, and procedures there, as well as on the farm, must be more environmentally friendly. Research NPK poisoning of streams, rivers, lakes, and seas. The information may be shocking.

I don't mention a product name because I don't want there to be any mistake that I am advertising. I do want people to know that there is hope and that sometimes from humble beginnings and with fresh ideas change can happen.

I thank the owner, admins, and members of this forum for its existence, that there is such a place to discuss ideas with a freedom similar to the Bill of Rights 1st amendment. With opposing ideas, new thought can grow.

Thanks to all,

David

That cold snap sucked. I expected it to get cold, but not into the mid 20s like we got. I covered my key lime and brought in my couple potted trees and seedlings, but wasnt expecting anything out of the ordinary. My citrus including the Shiranui did fine, I dont see any damage on any of those. My non-citrus on the otherhand took a beating. My mango might make it although I think all the current leaves are going to fall, my new leaves on one of my lychee wilted instantly, along with all the leaves on my starfruit(which weathered the previous light freezes undamaged) and my one Jacobataba which is only 10 feet from the other Jacobataba once again is damaged by the frost while the other seems just fine. I have a lot of non-citrus on my property at the urging of the agriculture center and personal preference, glad we had cold this year just so I can see how bad certain trees take it before I plant new ones. Our climate here is a micro-climate so its hard to use the weather reports as a guide since no one reports on us.