Re: How Hot?

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• To: p*@athenet.net
• Subject: Re: How Hot?
• From: a*@powernt.net
• Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 21:04:45 -0500 (CDT)

>Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 20:57:46
>To: Jpukos@aol.com
>From: archer@powernt.net
>Subject: Re: How Hot?
>
>At 08:49 PM 5/22/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>Does anyone know how hot I can allow it to get in my mini greenhouses without
>>having everything wilt away? So far, I have let it get up to 100 degrees and
>>the plants seem to be handling that okay.
>>Thanks!
>>Joe Pukos
>>Leicester, NY
>>
>>05-22-97 Joe, a good way not to stress those giants too much 
> is to go check several greenhouses and ask them what temperature
> they try to maintain. Maybe you will have the "big one" this year.
> Watching a show on "the Learning Channel" today the host of the garden
> show created about a 15x15 foot greenhouse w/polyethelene sheeting and 2x4
> lumber. In order to relieve the heat build-up he had an automatic 
> opener set at 70 degrees in the gable end. He stated the 70 works fine 
> for him and w/the sun able to reach the palnts they grow very nicely.
> Suppose you could get a deice to trigger the automatic opening and closing
> to be set at any temp you desire. Of course you do realize that Wisconsin 
> grows bigger pumpkins than New York! Ha!! We'll see! I think a wonderful
thing 
> has happened through the computer age and the Internet is that we can all
help 
> each other and really have true competition! Good luck to all the pumpkinheads
> in the world! Catch you later!
>
> archer@powernt.net
>

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