Re: Heat Damage
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Heat Damage
- From: G* <G*@aol.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 09:24:22 EST
In a message dated 97-12-31 22:48:14 EST, you write:
<< Subj: Re: Slow Day
Date: 97-12-31 22:48:14 EST
From: Pumkinguy@AOL.COM (Pumkinguy)
Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
Reply-to: pumpkins@mallorn.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
John,
Anything you can do to reduce the temperature stress will help. Shading,
evaporative cooling, milk crates with ice.....whatever it takes. If you mist
when a flower is open, I think it would be better to devise something to keep
the water out of the female and male flowers that you use to pollinate. Old
leaves do tend to get a little old looking at the end of the year. The crispy
edges could be salt injury, which would be more evident in times of high heat
and evaporation. I would not spray the leaves with any insecticides,
fungicides, foliar fertilizer sprays......I would just use plain water for a
few days until the wicked heat passes. Most patches have enough fertilizer in
them to go for quite a while. It is possible to get damage to your young
tender growing tips when the temperature approaches 100.....shade the ends of
your important vines until the heat passes. I have had the ends of my vines
killed with 100 degree temps.
pumkinguy@aol.com >>
I found that if you have a light colored mulch under the end of the vine it
increases the heat damage. It evidently reflects the heat back on the plant.
I move the light colored mulch away to expose the dark dirt which seems to
absorb some of the heat.
George
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