Getting cold feet about cold treatment

tnkrer · March 31, 2014

Well, its not exactly cold treatment that I am getting cold feet about, but moving the plants in the unheated garage where the low temp has been around 40 and high temp around 49 in last couple of days. The cold treatment thread says that the temperatures should be in 50-55 range. May be I can put couple of candle warmers in that area and bump up the temperature by few degrees.

So what is the consensus on allowable temperatures. Is it OK to pot up the plants and move them to the garage if for next two weeks, the temperatures stay between 40-50 in the garage? The plants will get light from 8 32W 6500K bulbs in two 4x1 fixtures, so they will not suffer from lack of light and they will be watered from bottom.

Or keep them in the house where temperatures will range between 60-70.
The plants have just sprouted true sets of leaves.

March 31, 2014	#1
tnkrer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: MA 6a/b Posts: 352	Getting cold feet about cold treatment Well, its not exactly cold treatment that I am getting cold feet about, but moving the plants in the unheated garage where the low temp has been around 40 and high temp around 49 in last couple of days. The cold treatment thread says that the temperatures should be in 50-55 range. May be I can put couple of candle warmers in that area and bump up the temperature by few degrees. So what is the consensus on allowable temperatures. Is it OK to pot up the plants and move them to the garage if for next two weeks, the temperatures stay between 40-50 in the garage? The plants will get light from 8 32W 6500K bulbs in two 4x1 fixtures, so they will not suffer from lack of light and they will be watered from bottom. Or keep them in the house where temperatures will range between 60-70. The plants have just sprouted true sets of leaves.