Re: size, temp & wilting
>Cal has had success cooling with misters. ... the staggering of cool >days
>then warm days ..................might be advantageous. If Warm >temps
>were everything you would see a bunch more big ones from the >warmer
>climates.
>Also it would be interesting to look at the soil temps from far north >and
>Cal to see what the difference is. On their warmest days is the >soil
>cooler................ than Cals coolest days. Be neat to watch >that.
All I know is the days I see explosive fruit growth are the really hot days
- 90 to 100 degrees. Perhaps the fruits grow faster but for fewer days.
Does the heat force early maturity?
I DO know that lots of more northerly growers try to warm water at least to
ambient air temp before watering, but here in Virginia it's so hot that I
believe the cooler ground water is good (of course, I'm still waiting for my
thousand pounder! LOL).
Has anyone out there ever tried putting a room air conditioning unit right
on the hut that shelters the fruit??
Isn't ethylene the PGR that causes the fruit to ripen? If we could figure
out where and how that stuff is produced, maybe we could figure a way to
delay it or slow it or something and keep the pumpkins growing more and
longer. There is probably a temperature component in ethylene production...
possibly a day-length one, too.
Beth
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