Re: PFCS to cool pumpkins!
- Subject: Re: PFCS to cool pumpkins!
- From: T* P* M*
- Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 20:09:19 PDT
very good idea, I wish I would have thought of it!!!!
>From: SteveS012@aol.com
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: PFCS to cool pumpkins!
>Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:05:07 EDT
>
>Something I came up with....
>
>Pollinated Fruit (or Flower) Coolant Syatem (or Structure)
>
>You use a big tomato cage around each pollinated flower, use white foam
>around the base and a cheap thermometer next to the flower. A block of ice,
>ice sack, or "blue ice" is placed on the top of the tomato cage and secured
>(you can use a cloth "sling" for it to set on). That is then covered with
>more white foam. This sets up a make shift "cooler" without totally
>enclosing
>the area. The cold will sink down and stay in the area of the flower,
>because
>of the white foam border. It is MUCH more eefficient then any other method.
>And will last at least 5 times longer, especially if blue ice is used and
>rotated, and kept covered with white foam. This can reduce the temp of the
>fruit by 20 degrees or more. If it is 100 out, the fruit area could stay in
>the upper 70's or less.
>You can change stuff around (more or less foam, more or less ice) until the
>thermometer reads the ideal temp. This structure will also provide shade.
>Just a little USEFUL information! Now I have to go drink some more
>Kool-Aid,
>it is almost 100 here now! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
>
>
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