awesome job :thumbsup: you sure can't tell those plants are in the heat ! excellent ! ... I sometimes got stuck hauling shrubbery, and they would wrap some of the plants' pots and stems with wet burlap, too ... :thumbsup:
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awesome job :thumbsup: you sure can't tell those plants are in the heat ! excellent ! ... I sometimes got stuck hauling shrubbery, and they would wrap some of the plants' pots and stems with wet burlap, too ... :thumbsup:
:thumbsup::thumbsup: for direct sunlight! Those plants look extremely happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by mojavemama
And I'll 3rd or 4th the "Excellent thread!" motion, but I gotta admit I'm glad I don't live in the desert... my blood is way too thick for that climate. :jointsmile:
Nice job, mojavemama. Keep up the great work. :thumbsup:
Do you keep wetting or misting the paper, or let it dry? (and do you use properly ph'd water to wet it?) <kidding>
Do you bring the humidity down for flowering? My flower shed stays at around 25-40% with daily watering, but when it's hot, they tend to stress-out more with higher humidity.
I guess we lost MojaveMama. Bummer.
Nothing much to add except that using Silica Blast seems to make everything shrink. Like growing a minature plant. Plus, it's extremely high ph sucks to deal with. Two thumbs down for cannabis.
But I'm still chugging along in the heat. These are pictures of a strain I crossed last year, and chose it for my summer torture test. Inca Spirit x PokerFace and Diesel. A nice, stocky blend with a touch of citrus or pepper, depending on the cure-length. It's tasty uncured, too. Like smoking a christmas tree.
Two are in 15 gallon nursery pots, peat based organic soilless mix. Picture of smaller plants was taken on July 3rd, picture of budded ladies was taken July 27. (shorter ladies are in 5 gallon rose containers, on blocks to even the canopy a tad)
Am having to run with just one 400w HPS due to the searing heat, but on cooler mornings I fire-up the other, and closely monitor the temps. Ambient temps have been over 100 daily inside the shed.
Awesome thread. I'm not so worried about my 83 degree closet anymore. It'll be fine.
I have a heat problem in my grow, so I figured I could grow with added co2. I'm broke most of the time lol, so I made one of these; How to build a Cheap CO2 generator - Stoner Forums - A Marijuana & 420 Friendly Community. Increased co2 allows the stoma to stay open during high heat 80F+. My plants love it, I have three generators for an average sized closet.
P.S.sorry about posting about another website.
I've never tried the co2 route. Would have to drive almost 100 miles to the nearest tank supplier, and I can't afford it anyway.
These techniques do me fine for now. (unless the A/C goes out)
Yeah, the heat is very misleading to me...80 degrees is ideal inside, while I've grown plants outside in the valley of the suns with 120+ degree heat(partially shaded during afternoon's hottest times). I'm finding that my current inside grow(Little Angel) is pretty darn heat resistant, 90-95 degrees avg and no signs of heat stress. I did however find out what you were talking about with misting in the light...
Glad I'm a baker- all the yeast I can get for some homemade co2...And dang, 100 miles? What're you in Nogales? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome
I'm also in arizona and have started my first grow this month (December). This will be useful when the summer heat comes along, even though I do grow indoors (I keep my house very warm due to electric bills in the summer).
Thanks for the tips.
I used to just turn the indoor lighting off and move out to the greenhouse for the summer. The plants seem to take the heat better outside, granted I have a large fan venting the pitch of the greenhouse roof to stop the heat from building up under the roof and another oscillating fan at ground level to stop the air from stagnating around the plants.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome
This year I have set up a portable aircon unit in the grow room. The room draws air from the rest of the house (temp controlled to around 26C/79F) and expels it through the aircon exhaust, plus a higher, secondary extraction vent with fan.
With cfl and flouros on for seedlings and clones I can keep the temps under 30C/86F at the canopy (when it 40C/104F outside), but can't run hid during the heat of the day. So my larger vegging clones go out to the greenhouse during the day and come in about 7 pm to go under 400W hps and finish their 18/6 day.
All good so long as the condensate reservoir doesn't fill and shut down the refrigeration. I just need to be up and about by lunchtime to put the clones out and shut down the hps for the arvo. If the aircon shuts down the room can be up around 34C/95C (ambient) by mid morning.
Have to remember to empty the res before I go to bed. Humidity isn't usually a problem over summer, but we've had an unseasonal amount of rain this December so things are a bit sticky.
I'm not quite in the desert, but the summer temps on the plains get up to 46C/115F... which is quite hot enough for me.