Anyone else get zapped by heat this weekend?

Kikaida · June 1, 2015

Here in Southern California we had a nice temperature spike on Saturday. We've been rolling along in the 70s for weeks now then boom, 93 degrees! Needless to say the plants weren't happy about that. Drying up from an over-water, they were already a little stressed then the heat comes burned a few leaves and caused a fair amount of floppy wilt at the tops...Also a few flowers were kicked.
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Post haste I got my shade cloth project finished yesterday that I've been putting off, waiting for that week of mid 80s...Lesson learned. Still need to tidy it up a bit but it sure does a great job. From piercing sun and too hot to walk on concrete to warm sun and easy to walk on concrete, makes such a difference. So far I have the 50% up and have a 75% in the garage for when we start cresting 100.
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The wilt is slowly recovering and I'm watering just a little bit every other day or when the soil looks dry. I figure capillary action will pull down what ever the top dry layer doesn't need and will try not to dump gallons on them twice a week. Also, I'm watering the fabric around the pots in the hopes of keeping the outer extremes a little damp.
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Mojave · June 1, 2015

Yeah we got it up here too. It's been very cool all season up to now, my peppers are really diggin it!

May was a colder month than January up here.

Kikaida · June 1, 2015

May colder than January? That's odd!

Mojave · June 1, 2015

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Originally Posted by Kikaida

May colder than January? That's odd!

Yes it sure is odd! It's been a few weird years weatherwise.

AZGardener · June 2, 2015

Yep it was 108 Sunday and 105 yest.... But we should be back down in the high 90's maybe hitting 100 by Sunday... Sigh :/

Gardeneer · June 2, 2015

June started COOL/COLD around here. Mon/Tue/Wed temp range 60-63F. That is for highs.
This weekend it will pick up to 82F, the highest. Not really a zapping though. It should be perfect tomato weather. I can imagine, when it gets 82F here,lot of places will be in 90s and triple digits.

Kikaida · June 2, 2015

Dang AZ, that's hot, you're going to need 120% shade cloth!

Just noticed you're from Seattle Gardeneer, love it up there.

Mojave · June 4, 2015

We're back to cold again.

At this time last year we were pushing 100.

June 1, 2015	#1
Kikaida Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Valencia, CA Posts: 258	Anyone else get zapped by heat this weekend? Here in Southern California we had a nice temperature spike on Saturday. We've been rolling along in the 70s for weeks now then boom, 93 degrees! Needless to say the plants weren't happy about that. Drying up from an over-water, they were already a little stressed then the heat comes burned a few leaves and caused a fair amount of floppy wilt at the tops...Also a few flowers were kicked. - Post haste I got my shade cloth project finished yesterday that I've been putting off, waiting for that week of mid 80s...Lesson learned. Still need to tidy it up a bit but it sure does a great job. From piercing sun and too hot to walk on concrete to warm sun and easy to walk on concrete, makes such a difference. So far I have the 50% up and have a 75% in the garage for when we start cresting 100. - The wilt is slowly recovering and I'm watering just a little bit every other day or when the soil looks dry. I figure capillary action will pull down what ever the top dry layer doesn't need and will try not to dump gallons on them twice a week. Also, I'm watering the fabric around the pots in the hopes of keeping the outer extremes a little damp. -

June 1, 2015	#2
Mojave Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2012 Location: SF Bay area Z9a Posts: 821	Yeah we got it up here too. It's been very cool all season up to now, my peppers are really diggin it! May was a colder month than January up here. __________________ Bill _______________________________________________ When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir Believe those who seek the Truth: Doubt those who find it. -André Gide

June 2, 2015	#5
AZGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Zone 9b Phoenix,AZ Posts: 390	Yep it was 108 Sunday and 105 yest.... But we should be back down in the high 90's maybe hitting 100 by Sunday... Sigh :/ __________________ Kelly from Phx, AZ Toes and Tomatoes on FB

June 4, 2015	#8
Mojave Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2012 Location: SF Bay area Z9a Posts: 821	We're back to cold again. At this time last year we were pushing 100. __________________ Bill _______________________________________________ When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir Believe those who seek the Truth: Doubt those who find it. -André Gide

June 2, 2015	#6
Gardeneer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7 Posts: 4,919	June started COOL/COLD around here. Mon/Tue/Wed temp range 60-63F. That is for highs. This weekend it will pick up to 82F, the highest. Not really a zapping though. It should be perfect tomato weather. I can imagine, when it gets 82F here,lot of places will be in 90s and triple digits.