Weather

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by PureHarvest

Then Texas is coming to the Delmarva Peninsula.
We are supposed to hit 100 index today through Thursday. UGH
I'm going with a Texas/Florida tomato production schedule next year. These heat index days ruin too many months of work to try to coax a crop through July and August.

Must be all of the hot air coming from the west and north west.
Worth

[bower]

I feel your pain PH, and I have the same problem in my greenhouse. Late cold spring and now hot and sunny weather pretty consistently, I am glad to see clouds! Luckily the wind has been just cooling enough and so far I am getting more fruit setting than blossoms dropped this time around. But I know what it's like, to see whole clusters wiped out by the heat. And cluster after cluster. It sucks mightily!!!

[AlittleSalt]

Sorry you all are having problems with heat that you're not used to.

Here in my neck-of-the-woods in Texas, the weather has basically been spot-on. Daily highs around 96 with the heat index around 102 which is average here. This is my 52nd summer here and an "Average" summer is really kind of odd.

[bower]

The wierd thing is Salt that I am used to it. The greenhouse is like Texas once summer gets going. Why I like to plant early and get em set in the coooold.
I would never have understood these issues if I hadn't joined the forum and read what people were dealing with in a totally different environment!!

[tryno12]

bower, i gotta say i feel for you and the other end of the spectrum in TX and stormy MO
it is tough enough when tyou have normal issues but what you all go through......... that being said, on vac in torch lake michigan, i see my indy zip 46112 has flooding and worth already said the plants from my one plot were drowned............. of well, that's why i have over 100 plants and gonna eat 'em all myself.........

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by bower

The wierd thing is Salt that I am used to it. The greenhouse is like Texas once summer gets going. Why I like to plant early and get em set in the coooold.
I would never have understood these issues if I hadn't joined the forum and read what people were dealing with in a totally different environment!!

There was a business here years ago that sold plants out of impressive looking large greenhouses. Greenhouses were something new to me and I was at the age where we learn by example. Mid 20s.

I enjoyed visiting this business a lot, and in March and April - the greenhouses had beautiful plants in them. Then in May, I started thinking the greenhouses were too hot and humid inside, but the plants still looked basically okay.

In June, I had to toss everything I learned by observation about those greenhouses. They only had doors to the east and west in them. They were using typical household fans in the greenhouses and it was so hot and humid inside - you could hardly breathe. Our predominant winds are from the south and south west. South winds are off the gulf and are humid. Southwest winds are more from what you would think of as west Texas desert...low humidity and hot winds. There were no openings in the greenhouses to let in the south winds and no north openings for the air to flow out of.

That business was one that cost a lot of money to build, but it failed. The people who bought the property demolished the greenhouses, and years later, doctors offices were built.

It was a lesson for me. I learned to pay attention to the weather even more than I had before. And to use it to your advantage - not to your detriment.

[Rockporter]

It's 82 degrees with 75% humidity out there right now. We have early morning showers today and tomorrow as well. I watered anyway because I won't be home to gauge whether I should get out there and water if the rain that comes down is only minimal. My containers will be happier with me. No heat index warnings as of yet this morning.

Edit: Well spoke too soon. Just checked my email and our heat index warning has in fact been delivered.

[bower]

Originally Posted by tryno12

bower, i gotta say i feel for you and the other end of the spectrum in TX and stormy MO
it is tough enough when tyou have normal issues but what you all go through......... that being said, on vac in torch lake michigan, i see my indy zip 46112 has flooding and worth already said the plants from my one plot were drowned............. of well, that's why i have over 100 plants and gonna eat 'em all myself.........

Fingers crossed you come home to find lots of survivors. First too dry, then too wet - ah, tomatoes, I hope they suck it up!!!

[bower]

@salt, yes I think the lessons I learned the best are the mistakes I was forced to live with. Some things you can't learn without giving them time. By the time we're ready to start from scratch with all that hindsight, well, we may be too old to start afresh.
Life is strange....

[Nematode]

70F with fog.
If the sun breaks through it's gonna go off this afternoon.

[rxkeith]

it finally started warming up here once july rolled around. high 70s for a few days, then we got an east wind blowing yesterday. i hate east winds. they never bring anything good. temps for the next couple days are only in the 50s. rain and fog. chilly enough to have to wear a light windbreaker outside. hard to believe temps in some part of the country are double what they are here.


keith

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by bower

@salt, yes I think the lessons I learned the best are the mistakes I was forced to live with. Some things you can't learn without giving them time. By the time we're ready to start from scratch with all that hindsight, well, we may be too old to start afresh.
Life is strange....

Yes, life is strange, but we do learn from it every day.

And keeping with the weather theme part - it was hot today - surprise

[tryno12]

i am worried also about the plants around my deck i put in hidden oil change containers for the $store - hope the roots don't drowned in 5 days???? i gotta get back, i have someone to water plants - not dewater!!

The raised beds I hope do ok, the soil I hope has drained

These that worth i believe correctly said got "dunked" I won't know if they drained well enough or not - i did dig a trench out the "back 40" to stop the "dunking" but we had near record storms and rainfall of over 4" 2 days agp

Excuse the !@@$%@$^ upside down photo's but I am trying to figure out how and where to catch fish in zip 49615 1 walleye and all the kids and grandkids want to do is tube and eat

[Father'sDaughter]

Just over 2" of rain this afternoon with lots of lightning and thunder. It was my weekly in-office day and the storms rolled in right around the time I was planning to head home.

After multiple alerts to my phone (including a flash flood warning from the emergency alert system) I decided to wait it out. It was a long day in a steamy, hot building followed by a tense drive home on partially flooded roads through a few lingering and blinding down pours, and I arrived too late to take a stroll through the garden and visit with my leafy kids.

[tryno12]

darn it, i know the feeling being here in upper michigan, having near record rain at home in Indianapolis......... miss my daily/hourly(i'm retired) - i can watch my tom's grow thoughout the day
now for the week just worry