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Sunday, March 20, 2016
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DeanAZ
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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Weather has been unusually warm this year. However, overnight lows continued to be 40 or below. Last season I kept the plants warm by keeping them inside the Rtech boxes (R-rating 5.7) along with 2 religious-type candles. The boxes were inside a large hoop house covered in 6-mil plastic. This year I thought I would just use the boxes until the weather warmed enough for a hoop house. Bad decision. The Rtech boxes did help keep the air around the plant at about 60 degrees. However, once I removed the box during the day, the temperature dropped to whatever we had on hand. Unfortunately, that meant morning temperatures were between 35-40. Daytime highs were 60. Two weeks after I transplanted my pumpkins I erected my 6x8 hoop houses covered by 6-mil plastic.
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