Summer found us

 

105°F in Santa Rosa, 107°F here. Opened up the house last night to cool
off. The outside temp went to 53°F, the house to 70°F.

The paper says it will be 99°F today, Accuweather.com says 92°F.

The heat didn't seem so bad yesterday, but I'm feeling a little stunned
today. The tomatoes enjoyed the heat. You could almost watch them redden.

Chance of showers on Sunday, go figure.
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2010/07/201072816515308172.html

 

On 8/25/2010 12:14 PM, Billy wrote:

Here's a question for you, Billy.
Will excessive heat cause tomatoes to go dormant?

 



 Here you go Frank,  Billy has been busy with carbon issues and more.

 http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac/research/archive/heattrial.htm

 The tough part is defining the question.   In this case it was    
tomato heat tolerance.

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they won't polinate if too warm at night
they'll shrivel up and die if too hot during the day

 

On 8/25/2010 1:29 PM, AZ Nomad wrote:
wrote:

Had not thought about pollination.  I had a lot of ripe tomatoes but now
only a few green and not as many as in the past. Protracted hot weather
seems to have brought on a stasis.  Weather is getting cooler so maybe
numbers will come back.