The Hot Pepper

What size are the plants. They could be fine if they're small.

Most are about a 1ft-1.5ft tall at the moment. (just noticed I spelled pour/poor wrong too!) The biggest ones are the Pubescens which have gotten pretty wide. I went out tonight and tied them down to their stakes (finally!). Now just need to bring them slightly closer together for protection and hopefully things will be okay.

Stay safe over there! Best of luck!

Super typhoon described as "once in decade storm" takes aim at Japan

Get a tarp and bring whats potted inside?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQH5ymXRsk

You'll thank me

Since you said "bring them slightly closer together" is it safe to assume they are in pots? If so, and you don't have a better way to shelter them, lay them on their sides, with pot taking the brunt of the wind.

So if wind is flowing east to west, pot to the east, plant to the west.

They may still sustain some damage, but it will be significantly less than if the wind topples them.

youre supposed to bring stuff like that in during a hurricane, not lay it on its side, the wind changes direction anyway

no ones pointed out the pour pun.

Note I said "IF he doesn't have a better way to shelter them." Bringing them in is best, but if he has no other alternatives, such as from a lack of space, laying on side is as good as it gets. I grew up in hurricane country and know how winds shift, honey, so chill.

Well then you should know the winds shift and that your advice is terrible.

Actually mx, in our area during a typhoon the wind generally follows the same direction (beats me I dunno why). Although in general it is so strong it doesn't really matter.

I can't bring them in (no space), and if we get a lot of rain and/or wind a tarp wouldn't help. I may have an area that can be used as a wind block, so we'll see. we'll see how things go tonight when the rain is supposed to start. I figure if I group them together in a big block they shouldn't get blown over, the only thing left is to block the wind on the oncoming side. Okinawa will take the brunt of the storm, hopefully us mainlanders will only deal with heavy rain.

LOL Buzz.

I went through this last year, when we had typhoon after typhoon, hopefully I can use that experience this year lol.

Just mail them all to me while you still can. We don't get typhoons/hurricanes here.

LOL, I think I'll take a chance on them here instead of killing them in the post ;-)

fil its physically impossible for the win to blow the same direction the whole time. Just watch... Ive sat through I dont know how many hurricanes and one typhoon. WIND TOGGLE ENGAGED

LOL, I said general direction, but yes the ENTIRE time it will not be blowing the same direction. Agreed.