I was thumbing through the latest issue of skunk magazine and ran across a article about high temps(90-100f) and organic growing with happy plants by the Rev. Now, ive usually got fairly high temps for my grow area(much higher than most all would recommend, right around the temps previously stated) and do just fine with diligent watering and careful observations, and do just fine. Now, the article im using references from is for photo plants(ive been running autos this way with a few stumbles along the way but have seemed to smooth out with trial and error), its for TLO grown plants and also a very important thing here is the type of pots you use. I use and highly recommend using the "self watering cheap wally world pots, as they hold water in different areas and make water almost constantly available when temps peak extremely high. Again, high temps and low RH will cause you to be very careful with watering as the plant will need much more water to cool herself down. Ok so here we go, in a tlo mix with high temps and self watering pots, plants can and will thrive. I use the "wick method" at the very bottom of my self watering pots with a 50/50 mix of vermiculite and perlite, and the plants roots adapt much the same as finding a water table in nature. For REALLY high temps I have found( and the article in reference has supported this thinking) with a nice mulch top dressing you can freeze teas and guanos or the leachate from a worm farm in ice cube trays. The article says to use R/O water and only to add a very small amount of guanos or whatever N or P or K you would like to make available to the plant( around an 1/8 tsp) and only one type of nutrient at a time. If you are experiencing higher than usually accepted temps you can take the nute ice cubes and place them on top of your soil mix to naturally and slowly melt away and become available to the plant. Also watering with cool water, not cold helps her regulate her temps naturally. Freezing helps speed up decomposition by causing cells containing water to freeze and burst and break down and feed the micro life, and in turn feeding the plants much quicker than normal decomposition. Its that simple and truely works well.......again, diligent watering in high temps with cool water is a must. Just something I found that works and the Rev has confirmed my thinking on this. Any thoughts or arguements to the contrary are more than welcome and would be nice to discuss.
later skrewg
later skrewg
