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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2012, 01:20:22 PM »
Just saw this: http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMweb/default.aspx

thanks! now I need to change my profile! i'm in zone 9b i guess...what's the zone map from 1955 look like??? lol ;)
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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2012, 01:22:27 PM »
Thanks Gwenn.  I'm still in western 10B.  I am interested to see if other members have any change to their zone.

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2012, 01:34:22 PM »
Interesting, I changed to 10a from 9.
Thanks for the information.

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2012, 01:39:28 PM »
I see that the map is based on data through 2005. My zone 9b place in Highlands County, Florida has had quite a few nights down to about 20 degrees in the last 3-4 winters.

I've heard that even modest overall climate change can cause extremes of temperature, etc. in some areas.

Still, I'm hoping that this is just a short-term trend. Someday I'd like to eat a loquat.

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2012, 01:41:16 PM »
I see that the map is based on data through 2005. My zone 9b place in Highlands County, Florida has had quite a few nights down to about 20 degrees in the last 3-4 winters.

I've heard that even modest overall climate change can cause extremes of temperature, etc. in some areas.

Still, I'm hoping that this is just a short-term trend. Someday I'd like to eat a loquat.

Where are you having trouble growing loquats? Lake Worth or Highlands County?

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2012, 01:44:35 PM »
 :(  I'm still 9b ... can't grow Guanabana outside without protection yet.
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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2012, 01:53:38 PM »
http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/pages/1000/f1036/f1036.htm

from 1978 looks same more or less....global warming is mumbo jumbo. :P ::) ;) >:( :'( ;)
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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2012, 02:11:54 PM »
I'm in 10a as I always suspected from observing the local yard plantings. There isn't much of a change in the St. Petersburg weather records though.

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2012, 02:14:47 PM »
Never had any problems with loquats fruiting in Gator Country (Gainesville, Florida).

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2012, 02:19:18 PM »
murahilin:   I've had the loquat trouble in Highlands; each year the flowers or fruit are killed by low temps.   So far I've saved the limited yard space in Lake Worth for mangos and such.

Are fruit flies a problem these days for loquats in Florida zone 10?

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2012, 02:21:38 PM »
Never had any problems with loquats fruiting in Gator Country (Gainesville, Florida).

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I had always thought they grew great in central Florida.   Maybe it's a microclimate issue for my yard / neighborhood.

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2012, 03:42:50 PM »
It seems most of California experienced a bump up in zone. Interesting to see that almost all of Los Angeles basin is a solid zone 10b. I believe the Los Angeles basin gets a lot of the warmth at night from the concrete and asphalt density. I can spot many +15 year old Mango and Inga edulis trees planted in the ground through out Los Angeles.
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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2012, 04:21:01 PM »
I'm in Whittier, Ca. and I got bumped up to 10b

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2012, 04:24:51 PM »
I'm in Whittier, Ca. and I got bumped up to 10b

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Time to plant out a bunch of Guanabana with a nice bamboo wind break, or better yet, sapodilla!!!

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2012, 04:26:30 PM »
My zone bumped up from 9A to 10B (92646).  Zone 10b = 35-40Deg F - which I consistently observe...

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2012, 04:37:00 PM »
I hope the plants all get this memo! ;)

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2012, 05:56:32 PM »
http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/pages/1000/f1036/f1036.htm

from 1978 looks same more or less....global warming is mumbo jumbo. :P ::) ;) >:( :'( ;)

I guess Florida had a warmer climate back then.  :) lol Temps have been the same on the same wave-like pattern.  We've had cold and mild winters before. I guess they change the temp scales for each zone, like what they did to the Tornado strength scale. The F scale vs the EF scale.
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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #18 on: January 25, 2012, 07:45:36 PM »
Officially, Im now in 7B which is 5-10 degrees but in practice, its more like 8a which is 10-15. I dont recall it getting below 10 degrees, and even 15-20 degrees is rare

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2012, 08:29:44 PM »
New york is pretty warm, it's only 6-8 hours from Montreal and there's a big difference.

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2012, 08:31:18 PM »
I'm a solid 10B now maybe a sunset zone 24.

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2012, 08:46:32 PM »
I'm in 10b now.  Good job finding this. 

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2012, 09:17:40 PM »
Just saw this: http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMweb/default.aspx

thanks! now I need to change my profile! i'm in zone 9b i guess...what's the zone map from 1955 look like??? lol ;)

Here is Bloomberg article on the new zones
USDA ‘Plant Hardiness’ Map Shifts Temperature Zones North http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/usda-plant-hardiness-map-shifts-temperature-zones-north-1-.html Not that I believe it. Lots of this global warming hysteria has been exposed as junk science as far as I'm concerned.  It is beyond laughable to classify CO2 as a pollutant. Water vapor is a stronger factor than CO2 in the greenhouse effect. Solar cycles are very influential.

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2012, 09:23:16 PM »
Just saw this: http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMweb/default.aspx

thanks! now I need to change my profile! i'm in zone 9b i guess...what's the zone map from 1955 look like??? lol ;)

Here is Bloomberg article on the new zones
USDA ‘Plant Hardiness’ Map Shifts Temperature Zones North http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/usda-plant-hardiness-map-shifts-temperature-zones-north-1-.html Not that I believe it. Lots of this global warming hysteria has been exposed as junk science as far as I'm concerned.  It is beyond laughable to classify CO2 as a pollutant. Water vapor is a stronger factor than CO2 in the greenhouse effect. Solar cycles are very influential.

Zands... be nice  ;) You know us liberals get hurt when someone talks bad about global warming!

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Re: new USDA Zones due to warming trend
« Reply #24 on: January 26, 2012, 12:32:38 AM »
Aw, I'm still in 9a. :(

 I heard that many years ago it used to be a lot warmer here and they used to grow a lot of citrus commercially. Anyone know what zone Jacksonville was like 20-30 years ago?