 RE: Queen of the Night and winter
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Posted By: Webmaster, Nashville, TN, USA
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Posted At: 8:30:48 AM, 10/11/2008
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I doubt that the Queen of the Night plants would survive unprotected in the Winter. It is a tropical plant by nature, whereas the prickly pear is a hardy desert survivor. Our Queen of the Night plants are wintered in a warm greenhouse where the temperature bottoms out between 45F and 50F. Wintering inside of the house is a good option.
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Queen of the Night and winter
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Posted By: Dana, Fort Collins, co, usa
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Posted At: 1:13:02 PM, 10/6/2008
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I have an 8 year old Queen of the noght from Southern California. I now live in Northern Colorado and our winters can be 20 deg for weeks. For the past two years she has been inside the house allyear but had not grown an inch. last spring I transplanted her into a large pot and put her out side. 6 inches of growth! I am thinking of leaving her out this winter but I do not want to kill her. I have thought about building a green house of sorts to cover her with or even wrapping her pot in a heater wire to keep the pot from freezing solid. I have seen prickly pear thrive here in the earth. it just shrivvles up and liios dead then thenekt summer bam it grows 3 times what it was last summer.
Any thoughts would be helpfull.
Dana
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