It supposed to get really hot on friday....Wouldn't you think heat would cause the plants to stretch more? I'm at 2000 feet.
hey anybody else have plants growing at very low elevation in high heat? some of the desert plants have really tightened up their node spacing, my best guess is because of the 100 degree temps in that area and very low humidity, winds are also much heavier at this spot as well.....nodes are barely stretching, we've resorted to having to use shadecloths on some of the bad ones and spraying water all over the ground. hitting them with higher N and got a few inches after that feeding, so might have to stick with that. overall the plants are healthy with lush green growth but the nodes are just stacking on eachother, almost looks like someone snuck a bottle of bushmaster into my water tank!
everything at 3k feet is humming along and stretching daily, it stays in the mid 80s-mid 90s in the mountains but down in the flats its pushing 100 daily, its fucking HOT. and another big heat wave on the horizon....im open to all suggestions on how to salvage the low elevation plants because this shit is getting depressing seeing such poor growth...
in the low elevation garden the plants doing the best get 1-2 hours of shade a day from a nearby tree and are in 300 gal pots..but the mounds out in the direct sunlight for 14+ hours a day are struggling.
ACT's (actively aerated compost tea)
Or a nice top dressing of EWC
Milkyjoe is right, potassium silicate properly applied has been responsible for helping achieve blue dream buds as round as my upper leg before...fwiw
Hey Bro.....We`ve not talked in a while , but I`m glad and proud to see yas doin as well as anticipated......Things are going great here. The light dep is in and looks like it'll be a very good run. Most the plants in the full term are doing well, with the mounds and trenches just crushing the 400's. Never doing bags again. I'll be extending the vertical support on everything soon. The work never ends..but it's good for the soul. Be well, big plant people.
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