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 <P><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">STORAGE KEY G1</span></P>
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 <P><A href="STORAGE_KEYS.htm">Other Storage Keys</A></P>
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 <P class="Style-12-pt-Bold" >Woody plants (plant types):  BE, BS, CE, CS, DS, DT, FN, GC, PC, RO, SF</P>
 <H6><span style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal; ">(For reference purposes only.  Use of this storage key is not limited to the listed plant types.)</span></H6>
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 <P class="Style-12-pt-Bold" >Hardiness Zones 1-6</P>
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 <P style="margin-left:36.00pt;text-indent:-4.50pt;">Storage, such as:</P>
 <P style="margin-left:108.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">1.  Poly covered walk-in Quonset House with functional irrigation and</P>
 <P style="margin-left:144.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">a.  Supplemental heat or</P>
 <P style="margin-left:144.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">b.  Poly liners or</P>
 <P style="margin-left:144.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">c.  Thermo blankets.</P>
 <P style="margin-left:108.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">2.  Storage barns or buildings proven satisfactory in previous seasons.</P>
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 <P class="Style-12-pt-Bold" >Hardiness Zones 7-8</P>
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 <P style="margin-left:36.00pt;">Storage, such as:</P>
 <P style="margin-left:108.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">1.  Poly covered walk-in Quonset Houses or</P>
 <P style="margin-left:108.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">2.  Low Hoop Houses or</P>
 <P style="margin-left:108.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">3.  Pit frames covered with poly or</P>
 <P style="margin-left:108.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">4.  Outside beds covered with thermo blankets or poly. </P>
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 <P class="Style-12-pt-Bold" >Hardiness Zones 9-10</P>
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 <P style="margin-left:108.00pt;text-indent:-72.00pt;">Storage, such as:</P>
 <P style="margin-left:85.50pt;text-indent:-13.50pt;">1.  Overhead irrigation with sprinklers capable of providing complete coverage of the crop throughout the duration of cold temperatures or</P>
 <P style="margin-left:85.50pt;text-indent:-13.50pt;">2.  Plastic film covered structures without heat or overhead irrigation or</P>
 <P style="margin-left:85.50pt;text-indent:-13.50pt;">3.  Plants covered with thermo blankets or poly during periods of cold temperature.  Over-sized containerized plants (plants that are too large) should be laid on their side prior to covering.</P>
 <P style="margin-left:85.50pt;text-indent:-13.50pt;">&nbsp;</P>
 <P style="margin-left:72.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">NOTE:&nbsp;If wind conditions prevent effective use of overhead irrigation, either strategy #2 or #3 must be followed.</P>
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 <P style="margin-left:72.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">NOTE:&nbsp;The storage temperature must be established to prevent above freezing low temperature damage to the species being produced, including protection from dry, desiccating winds, either by covering the plants, use of overhead irrigation, or wind blocks.</P>
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 <P style="margin-left:36.00pt;">Plants to be stored in a greenhouse or a shadehouse covered with plastic film during the cold season and equipped with irrigation and a heating system, or a below bench and/or aisle irrigation system capable of maintaining the air temperature around the plants above critical minimums for the plants grown (minimum water temperature for heating purposes: 70 F).</P>
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 <P class="Style-12-pt-Bold" >Hardiness Zone 11</P>
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 <P style="margin-left:108.00pt;text-indent:-72.00pt;">Storage, such as:</P>
 <P style="margin-left:85.50pt;text-indent:-13.50pt;">1.  Overhead irrigation with sprinklers capable of providing complete coverage of the crop throughout the duration of cold temperatures or</P>
 <P style="margin-left:85.50pt;text-indent:-13.50pt;">2.  Plants covered with thermo blankets or poly during periods of cold temperature.  Over-sized containerized plants (plants that are too large) should be laid on their side prior to covering.</P>
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