This house is filled with brugmansias & plumerias. Temps that low are ok for several hours just not for extended periods of time. That is how I keep the houses & have for decades. Might seem scary for some but here is the key..they are not exposed. Know lots of collectors that house in this manner. If this was an orchid house well...would take a much different approach. We burm around 80 plumerias in the center of this house & yet to have Cain or tip damage. If we dip to the lower 20's we are In trouble...then we go to an additional back up heating plan! We have a climate controlled storage building at our home & in worse case scenario we can within about 20min of work move the plumerias in there.
The '11 snow storm & ensuing power outages devastated one of our houses. One dipped into the mid teens & stayed there for days. The other we had back up fuel, fortunately the plumerias for the most part were in there. A few in the other...went to mush & later sprang back from their roots. In the 70's we had this happen & there is nothing like cleaning up that devastation. The emotional stuff one goes through just sets one back. We are fortunate living in a part of the us that extended below freezing temps are just not the norm. Yes it freezes. It is currently snowing out there, but it does not stay like this for days or weeks on end.
As a young teen having a GH changed the course of my life...kept me for getting in trouble...drugs etc., & in the 70's drugs were just part if our culture. As an adult I joke that is was a city kids 4H program LOL
