Re: PUMPKIN PROBLEM
Mike
No dought if your at 110 heat index. On hot days like that, make sure
the ground is wet, sun radiates off the dry dirt and burns. No two
plants are the same, some plants wilt as others will thrive under the
same conditions. I myself had some heat damamge the other day with 85 *
temp and foggers go figure. Fogging system such as black 1/2" drip
tubing suspended between steel fence post and wired. Any sprinkler shop
will carry a fogger or mister head no more than 1 gal/ hour. The ones we
use are a screw in plastic head that push a small spike into the tubing.
Think 25 sell for $15 or so. Place rows of foggers 20 ft apart and
misters down these rows at every 5 feet. Start on the pervailing wind
side and that will carry the mist across the patch. Every hot climate
grower is in need of cooling. The can be set up on a timer system coming
on at 11am an off at 5 pm. I would reccomend also that a filter is in
place or misters will clog. If they do and they will, un-screw the head
and turn upside down over the housing, this will flush the tip 90% of the
time. Hope this helps and good luck.
Ken
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 01:10:33 EDT Zro406@aol.com writes:
>Ken
> thank you for the info, i will check out 991 for next year. it may
>have
>been heat stress but i have 3 plants in a row and only this one so far
>was
>effected. it was the largest of all 3 and i guess that could make it
>more
>likely to be stressed.
>i dont know much about misters but i am going to check it out. sounds
>like it
>could be the key. heat index is expected to be 110 or more this week.
>
> thanks for you help
> mike tomes
> memphis indiana
>
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