**outdoor heat**

[smokablunt16]

Im sure all of us outdoor growers are noticing the crazy hot sun and drying winds this month. We can pretty much count on every August being hotter than the last!!


You need to shade plants to slow the plants water daily water consmtion. This little shade during the day will increase yields as well. You must be a somewhat discreet when shading plants so you dont look so obvious your doing so. If its possible, bend nearby trees and bushes to provide at least some shade and if your in a secure area, you could string up a shade cloth above your plants. Most retail nurseries now sell shade cloth but you might have to paint it to blend in with your surroundings.

A GREAT idea would be to mulch around around the plants to keep water from evaporating in the soil and also attracts moisture when the temperature changes from night to day. This is one of the most simplest things you could do to promote a nice and healthy low-maintence crop. You could use just about anything for mulch..dry grass clippings, native foilage, rocks, wood, paper, plastic etc.. Just pile the mulch 6-12in high and spread throughout the whole perimeter of your crop area. Also be sure to remove any weeds surrounding your crop that would also compete for moisture.

Hope this helps some and you learn a thing or two from this!!

 

[Orange Shovel CAGrower]

thanks for the tips. i think i am going to grab some grass clippings and use those for mulch. do they have to be dry? or would wet work (i cut the lawn every week )

 

[smokablunt16]

Hey your welcome! They could be wet as well, i mean sooner or later its going to get wet/dry anyways..

 

[smokablunt16]

I guess this wasnt much help at all...

 

[O4aUsErNaMe]

Nope,
mine get full sun from sunup to sunset no shade at all,i get well over the 100 deg throughout the day's in summer and that is there best growth cycle.

indoors i can understand the heat problem but outdoors i am yet to run into a marijuana plant that stops growing when the temps get to the temps you stated.

sorry man...

 

[smokablunt16]

well arent you lucky...

 

[smokablunt16]

by the way this was pretty much only more on retaining water and not about growth

 

[bterz]

I think its a great idea about retaining water consumption but I do agree with O4ausername about the growth.

FDD lives up north where its usually 100+ and well, we all see how big his girls are.

 

[smokablunt16]

like i said, this wasnt at all about growth except for one sentence

 

[O4aUsErNaMe]

by the way this was pretty much only more on retaining water and not about growth

oh i agree with the mulching,i have pushed the very same line many times.
most people that grow in hot weather use mulch as a standard practice.

well arent you lucky...

lol ..no need to get testy..

As Im sure most of you know when the temperature climbs past 85*, plant growth slows drastically and comes to a halt when it rises past 95*.

that is the only bit i disagree with....

 

[smokablunt16]

Sorry man, just gets a little aggravating when you post up something and pretty much the only reply when i ask if it helped was..'nope' n the only thing that was focused on was the one little sentence about the growth not the main point of the thread..Its been a month since ive smoked so just a little on the edge over here

 

[O4aUsErNaMe]

thats me ...blunt and to the point..

 

[Seamaiden]

I disagree. If the plants are in pots, especially those black nursery pots, they are not going to tolerate the heat very well. If you're planted in ground or have some other means by which to keep the rootball cool, then yes, they can deal. If not, once the rootball starts cooking then growth does indeed shut down, even after the problem is corrected it takes a while for them to come back.

Hey your welcome! They could be wet as well, i mean sooner or later its going to get wet/dry anyways..

Yes, but wouldn't wet clippings begin to decompose and then start making heat?

 

[Orange Shovel CAGrower]

true, maybe ill leave some clippings in a bag and see how long it takes for them to dry, then put them as mulch.

 

[O4aUsErNaMe]

I disagree. If the plants are in pots, especially those black nursery pots, they are not going to tolerate the heat very well. If you're planted in ground or have some other means by which to keep the rootball cool, then yes, they can deal. If not, once the rootball starts cooking then growth does indeed shut down, even after the problem is corrected it takes a while for them to come back.

yes i agree there but it was mentioned with plants in the ground,if you grow in pots in a hot climate and especially the black ones then common sense should dictate the pots have to be shaded or protected in some way..

Yes, but wouldn't wet clippings begin to decompose and then start making heat?

the mulch will indeed to start to break down when wet but mulching helps to regulate the ground temp.
as it breaks down you just add more,
just dont use fresh clippings make sure they are dry dead clippings.

straw or leaf litter make the best mulch..

 

[Orange Shovel CAGrower]

yes i agree there but it was mentioned with plants in the ground,if you grow in pots in a hot climate and especially the black ones then common sense should dictate the pots have to be shaded or protected in some way..

most people on this forum arent gardeners and dont know that they should be shaded. i think that the OP deserves credit for writing this, and not that it was all "common sense" because SOME of us thought it was useful

 

[O4aUsErNaMe]

most people on this forum arent gardeners and dont know that they should be shaded. i think that the OP deserves credit for writing this, and not that it was all "common sense" because SOME of us thought it was useful

orange shovel i was not trying to say that it was not usefull, parts are but i was having a light hearted dig at the op's statement

I guess this wasnt much help at all...

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and i have given him/her credit for his/her effort...

the heat part i disagree with ,and most situations in life boil down to common sense not just gardening...

 

[THC.Ocean]

Luckily for me most days here are sunny all day then around 4 it gets cloudy and just pours down, then its night so its just right. But when it doesn't rain it gets sooooo dry and hot so water carrying is a bitch.

 

[smokablunt16]

Hell yea i feel ya on that one..I wish it would rain one day, be sunny the next, then rain, then sun..

 

[smokablunt16]

Any one have any more solutions for heat problems?