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Joliet, IL

i have had to use laundry detergent bottles with water
in them frozen to a solid big chunk of ice to cool female
blossoms on 90 plus temp days before and after setting
to prevent aborts. this year seeing the high temps were
going to be here this weekend, i through some in the
freezer 2 days ago and place one about 18" from each
plant inside the hoophouse to help keep the surrounding air
a little cooler, especially since mine were transplanted
last evening. the misters help out a lot too, but if you
don't have misters then the frozen bottle might help those
with hoophouse up in temps above 85 outside and hovering
around 100 inside the hoophouse. if you don't have the
laundry detergent bottles handy, a bag of ice works too but
melts real fast. maybe i am a going a little overboard,
but it certainly cannot hurt. just thought i'd throw
that out to anyone having a similar situation.

5/9/2004 1:22:46 PM

Canada

Mine was up near the 100 Mark early this mourning, I opened both side hatch windows and covered the top with a 4x8 sheet of plywood within an 1/2 hr the temp had dropped to 80. then around 4pm i un covered the greenhouse and closed the windows to build the heat up inside for the cool night.
last i checked was 8pm and the temp was at a steady 80
so i turned the 2 heat rocks on to keep the temp around 80-85 most of the night.

5/10/2004 10:31:44 PM