HEAT Wave!!!!!!!
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Heat wave in SoCal hit new Avocado- help!!
Comments (16)Another thing you can do is let the new sprout(s) grow and after a few years learn how to graft and graft a favorite variety(s) on. Since you're local to me, I can tell you that there are California Rare Fruit Grower meetings each month where you can learn to graft or even find someone to do it for you. If you don't have room in your yard for two avocado trees, you could dig this one up and put it back into a 5 gallon container. If you do that keep it in a fairly shady cool spot until it's growing well, and keep the sun from hitting the container and baking the roots(wrap something white or reflective around the container). I have a Fuerte avocado that I planted a month ago. I kept it in it's container for a year so it was a lot stronger and healthier looking than the one I see in your first picture. I planted it in a spot where a tree would shade it from the strong afternoon sun, and when I heard about the first heat wave coming I put shade cloth over it. I also wrapped the trunk with an extra layer of shade cloth (I should have also painted it white but haven't done this yet). And I've been diligent about watering it, almost every day when the weather is real hot. And since I've read that Avocado trees like humidity, I try to spray or mist the leaves every day when it's hot. The other thing I'm going to do it put 4 inches of mulch around it's base (but not touching the trunk) to keep the it's roots as cool as possible. Avocado trees have shallow roots and the mulch can help keep them happy and healthy. So far my avocado is looking pretty good. I don't like to water it every day, but with this heat I've decided to take the risk of root rot...and if the heat lets up I start skipping days to let the soil dry out a bit....See MoreHeat wave and pea plants
Comments (10)I can only get peppers to do well in containers and then, only the small fruited hot ones like habaneros. Every time I plant peppers in the ground they only get about 10-12” tall and MIGHT produce a fruit or two. The larger fruited ones like poblanos and chilacas always end up with severe blossom end rot when I plant them in containers, too. I actually quit growing sweet peppers a couple years ago since it always felt like an effort in futility. Last year the wind took out all my pepper plants. Every time I went out there more branches had been snapped off. When I lived in Jeffco my peppers were always a “sure bet” and I’ve still got freezer bags of jalapeños and habs in my mom’s freezer, but I won’t be planting any kind of pepper this year. Partly because I didn’t plan early enough to start seeds and partly because of last years experience. “Fair to excellent” is a good way to put it for tomatoes, Greg. Some years I have so many I end up composting a bunch and other years the harvest is so measly it hardly seemed worth the effort to grow them. I haven’t grown much winter squash, but the few times I have they were underwhelming, especially considering the amount of space they take up, getting just a single squash for a huge amount of room seemed almost pointless when I could grow entire bushels of something like green beans in the same amount of space. I am growing some short-vine varieties of butternut this year so we will see how they do. maybe I’m just bad at gardening....See MoreAir Conditioner can't keep house cool during heat wave in California
Comments (57)The thing about needing coolant (refrigerant) is that's not necessary unless there's a leak in the system. Refrigerant doesn't wear out or get used up such that it must be changed or refilled. A tiny leak that doesn't cause an adverse effect until enough leaks out over a couple/few years is somewhat less of a concern, but it's still a leak that shouldn't be there....See MoreBefore the heat wave, most productive use of your time?
Comments (23)Dee, it sounds like you had a good day with your daughter despite the heat. Hope your plants did okay. Maybe your daughter would consent to you posting photos of her new garden? Again, I really miss my water powered hose reels. They made quick work of putting the hose away, and with a heavy hose, that cuts down on half of the time you are struggling with it. This year I leave my hose out a lot, but I try to drag it off the lawn so it doesn't burn a stripe where it was lying in the hot sun. I’m ordering a new nozzle this morning. [g] I had one of those small basic brass nozzles and I thought that would be a replacement that would last and not keep needing to be replaced, but I tried it yesterday and took it right off and went back to my leaky nozzle. I guess I am just used to the settings I use and didn’t find I could duplicate them with the brass nozzle. Which I will keep as an emergency back up. I did find a great sprinkler that I LOVE! I spent some time researching those last year because I was having trouble with sprinklers. Aqua Joe Sprinkler This has worked very well this year, in it’s second year. It gives a really high spray that covers a lot of ground and this is my preferred lever for getting the precise area. On other sprinklers the spray arm would get stuck in the same position, and that hasn’t happened to me with this one. It was $17. last June and I see now it is $22.! It’s 70F on my back porch this morning. Roxanna, we lived in a brick house one year and I was too young to notice, and I would have thought it might keep the heat out. I’m surprised that it does the opposite. No wonder you hate the heat so much. [g] We have oil heat and old plaster walls and didn’t want to have to install a whole new duct system for central a/c. I see they now have some different a/c applications with units that are placed high on the wall and are ductless. We are considering switching to that, but between the window units and the Whole House Fan, we seem to stay comfortable. It’s just putting them in and taking them out is the only problem. The WH fan, only helps if the temperature outside is cooler and less humid than inside. We also do what my Mom used to do religiously, pull the light blocking heavy window shades down early in the morning to keep the house cooler. I was in and out yesterday watering. I put milk crates over some of my vegetables that don’t like the heat. I still have broccoli, lettuce, etc trying to grow. I am trialing varieties of lettuce that reviews said do well in the heat. The cilantro looks like it’s about to bolt. I moved all my potted plants into a very shady area and by 2pm they were dry for the most part. Two large divisions of Aster were in full wilt, so I soaked them all again. My favorite rose, ‘Savannah’, that had just opened all it’s buds and looked very unhappy by late day. It was well watered and mulched but it didn’t make a difference. The blooms looked like I feel when I spend 20 minutes out there. [g] ‘Julia Child’ on the other hand, looked completely unphazed and opened her first four blooms....See Moreguyground
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