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Friday, July 08, 2005
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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here is a picure tonight looking out my window at a high powered stand up kitchen fan that i have set up. it is directly in front of Tre's shade tarp and directed towards Noah and his shade tarp area as both are side by side. it is not directed at the pumpkins themselves, but up higher to blow out any accumulating heat under the shade tarps with some of the lesser force deflected winds cooling the pumpkins also. i have not used it yet, but the next 3 or 4 days will all by in the 90s and my pumpkins are only 10 to 15 feet away from my solid brown brick house that blocks some wind and radiates heat in the day as well. so i am trying with all wits to keep these 2 pumpkins that are set and growing nicely from aborting. maybe again overkill, but i do not think it will do them any harm. i got underneath the tarps and turned on the fan tonight to test it out and it works nice. ice bottles will go in front of Tre' so the fan will blow some coolness across it, seeing that Tre' is so young and very suseptible to aborting at this age. Noah should be fine with just the fan helping out, and the entire patch will be misted at 10 minute intervals 4 times a day to also keep the plants cool. the fan is set on my sidewalk in front of Tre's area and no water reaches that area so the fan will be fine running while the misters are running.
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