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Sunday, April 15, 2018
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Not sure exactly, but it feels like we’ve had three hours of sun in the past four days. I planted the 186 Radach directly into this most miserable stretch of weather. I’ve already had a mole appear out of nowhere so I set out 10 traps. I added a lot of granular mole repellant to the planting hole. (This may have saved it from a direct hit...) I won’t be able to tell if the plant is still healthy until the little greenhouse gets up to 80 degrees, but it’s still growing slowly and still ahead of Anna’s plant which has been indoors (but not at 80 degrees either...)
I have the lights on it 24 hrs a day. I added a 5000k LED light bulb only nine watts though lol it might raise the temperature one degree at most. Temp has been 42-60 inside the cover... about five degrees above outside temps. That should spike a lot higher when the sun finally comes out.
I put a 500 watt light in which quickly boosted the temp to 100 degrees and damaged the new leaf a little. I put my hand in front and thought “that’s not too hot” but I didn’t realize it gets hotter and hotter and radiates more heat after the fixture heats up. So I averted a lot of damage/a complete loss by checking back an hour later. Then, feeling timid, I decided to put in the woefully inadequate 9 watt bulb instead! (109 watts total— around 200 would probably be better but oh well.). And I have a 300 watt LED that could go in... but soon the sun will come back and everything will sort out.
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