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Saturday, April 23, 2005
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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its going down to 26 degrees tonight with 30 mph gust
winds. two space heaters have been used set on high
today with the highest reading reaching 81 degrees, when the
sun came out for an hour. right now at 9pm (i just ran out
in bare feet on cold walking boards...brrrrrr..) it is
71 degrees and my high low themometer will record the lowest
it reaches in there, which i figure will be in the low to
mid 60s. my space heaters work on time pulses, which means
i have to monitor them with temps to adjust when to leave
on full or medium or low. pain in the butt. so at the
advice of joe richards, i have purchased 4 pelonis ceramic
heaters on line tonight which are thermostatically
controlled. it will make it much easier to just set the temp
at night to 65 and change to 80 in the morning and know
that my only concern with temperatures will occur when
temps get too high. at that point the misting system will
again be used and the space heaters will be removed.
its funny that i had to mist for two days last week, and
now i have two 1500 watt space heaters cranking on high.
but so far so good and the plants are looking great.
the 1247 has a very stout stump already and
i can tell it is going to have thick thick vines.
it has its 5th true leaf forming and all leaves look good
except the first 2 that got burned on the first day
in the ground. the second true burnt leaf is over 14
inches. the 818 is a sweet plant too and is doing
great, but it will get the scissors soon unless tragedy
strikes the 1247. my big zac tomato plants are sitting in
transplant containers inside the heated greenhouse too
and are also starting to kick in nicely. also i started
some tall corn indoors and some giant sunflowers also
for test germaintion practices. they are also now in
transplant containers and i will try some early with this
method and direct plant some as well later on when the
soil heats up a bit and the last freezes and frosts are out
of sight.
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