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 <P><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">STORAGE KEY G2</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>
 <P>(For reference purposes only.  Use of this storage key is not limited to the listed plant types.)</P>
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 <P style="margin-left:36.00pt;text-indent:-36.00pt;">NOTE:  If other than white or clear poly is used to cover plants for cold protection, it must be removed prior to sun exposure the following day.</P>
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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;">Storage, such as:</P>
 <P style="margin-left:85.50pt;text-indent:-13.50pt;">1.  Poly covered walk-in Quonset Houses or </P>
 <P style="margin-left:85.50pt;text-indent:-13.50pt;">2.  Low Hoop Houses or</P>
 <P style="margin-left:85.50pt;text-indent:-13.50pt;">3.  Pit frames covered with poly or</P>
 <P style="margin-left:85.50pt;text-indent:-13.50pt;">4.  Outside beds covered with thermo blankets or poly.</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: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>
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 <P class="Style-12-pt-Bold" >Hardiness Zones 9-10</P>
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 <P style="margin-left:36.00pt;">Storage, such as:</P>
 <P style="margin-left:72.00pt;">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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 <P style="margin-left:72.00pt;">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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