I have a slightly longer growing season than Shovel. Dont know my longitude or latitude, but I'm zone 7 on the usda ag map. Droughts are rare here, biggest problem is too much rain most years & fighting fungus disease because of it (see older thread by Esteban called 'nasty east coast weather'). Any time you're growing stealth away from your home, its hard strenuous labor. You'd better be young & healthy to keep this up the whole season. I think the issue here was, is the dudes inviornment conductive to good growing? General consensus was, YEAH! :/