{"id":5601,"date":"2010-11-20T23:14:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T07:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2012-04-18T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T04:33:56","slug":"wacky-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/20\/wacky-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, before Dave and I went to Philly to visit family, I’m glad I gave my neighbor George last minute instructions to “water<\/a> everything!” We’ve had November warm spells before, but when I heard Bay Area<\/a> forecasters using the words “offshore flow,”<\/a> I knew it was going to be a mini heatwave. Most of the outdoor orchids would be fine, and I’d already reduced watering for dormant<\/a> varieties. However, some of my cool growing<\/a> orchids could have baked in the heat. Fortunately, George’s excellent care averted any problems. Even though a few dry<\/a> days went over 8o\u00b0F (27\u00b0C,) the Masdevallias<\/a>, Odonts<\/a>, and Samurai Orchids<\/a> were fine.<\/p>\n

Last week’s mini heatwave has given way to a more seasonal chill and rain, with a forecast low of 45\u00b0F (7\u00b0C) tonight. We had a heavy rain, and earlier a noisy thunderstorm put on a big show. Unless we have more wacky weather, it should be a while before a heatwave threatens to fry anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, before Dave and I went to Philly to visit family, I’m glad I gave my neighbor George last minute instructions to “water everything!” We’ve had November warm spells before, but when I heard Bay Area forecasters using the words “offshore flow,” I knew it was going to be a mini heatwave. Most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dormancy","category-growing","category-growing-orchids-in-san-francisco","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11767,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions\/11767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}