Outdoor time 🪴

Looking good! I have too many darn trees. Have to take them out and acclimate in batches. Some are still indoors, the newly rooted ones, albeit. Some are still in the makeshift greenhouse... I am in no rush to take them out... it was 20C outside but 32 in the GH... they are loving it there...
 
TorontoJoe said:
Love it! Mine have been out for a couple weeks on a north wall to harden them off. I just put them out to their regular spots before the weekend.
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I always wait till the 24th of May it’s kind of on a safe zone with the weather. I already got figlets happening on every trees. Having figlets now is a good indication I’ll be eating figs in August.
 
Figgin' A said:
Looking good! I have too many darn trees. Have to take them out and acclimate in batches. Some are still indoors, the newly rooted ones, albeit. Some are still in the makeshift greenhouse... I am in no rush to take them out... it was 20C outside but 32 in the GH... they are loving it there...
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I feel like when it gets too hot in the greenhouse the trees don’t understand why temperature drops drastically so that’s why I take em all out. The day time is starting to get really hot in the tent I don’t want them to get used to that. Plus where I place all my trees it’s facing the south sun all day.
 
Vitooch1 said:
I feel like when it gets too hot in the greenhouse the trees don’t understand why temperature drops drastically so that’s why I take em all out. The day time is starting to get really hot in the tent I don’t want them to get used to that. Plus where I place all my trees it’s facing the south sun all day.
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Makes sense.

Mine are also on the south facing side and get plenty of sun. I keep two big openings wide open in my GH, so it's more like a very high tunnel now. The temps there don't get higher than 35C on a very warm day. During cooler days, I make the openings smaller to get a higher temp bump inside the GH to about 32C.

This is my first time doing this, so I am still very much experimenting and trying to see what results I get. I have some trees fully outside, and some in the GH.

My thinking is as follows:

My average highs over next week will be 19C/66F and 23C/75F the week after. Average night lows will be 11C/52F this week and 16C/61F the week after.

Figs need 15 - 25 daily GDD (base t 50F) for optimal growth. Without the GH, I will be averaging 9 GDD per day over the next week and 18 GDD the week after.

With the GH employed, I will be getting 32C/90F during day and 35C/95F the week after. That's 21 GDD per day over next week and 28 GDD per day the week after.

I don't worry about my grow tent headstarted figs, they have progressed enough to ripen in time and during optimal weather here, but the ones I headstastarted in the GH, they are not as advabnced and need to grow optimally as much as they can. They may not understand the wide temp swings... but I am sure they will appreciate the optimal GDD and grow happily for a few more week before sufficiently warm weather arrives here. Time will tell how that works out, though. :D
 
Crabby127 said:
What is GDD?
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Growing Degree Days (GDD) are a standard measurement used by farmers and gardeners to track accumulated heat. GDD is used to fairly reliably predict when crops will mature or when specific pests will emerge. GDD is typically calculated with a base temp of 50F, as 50F is when most plants, especially the warm weather plants like figs, start to grow. The higher the temp above 50F, the higher their metabolic activity is, the faster plants grow. This, of course, is valid up to a point, above which the law of dinishing returns kicks in and at some point you start getting negative effect, e.g. heat stress. Figs thrive at temps near 32C/90F.
 
Figgin' A said:
Growing Degree Days (GDD) are a standard measurement used by farmers and gardeners to track accumulated heat. GDD is used to fairly reliably predict when crops will mature or when specific pests will emerge. GDD is typically calculated with a base temp of 50F, as 50F is when most plants, especially the warm weather plants like figs, start to grow. The higher the temp above 50F, the higher their metabolic activity is, the faster plants grow. This, of course, is valid up to a point, above which the law of dinishing returns kicks in and at some point you start getting negative effect, e.g. heat stress. Figs thrive at temps near 32C/90F.
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Nice progress, Vito. Great video and outstanding soundtrack! Thanks for sharing.

I see similar progress on mine. Some trees have pea-sized figlets and others just small bumps.

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Figgin' A said:
Nice progress, Vito. Great video and outstanding soundtrack! Thanks for sharing.

I see similar progress on mine. Some trees have pea-sized figlets and others just small bumps.

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It’s nice to see locals in the area managing the same process. It’s something we can compare and learn from eachother. There was more to the video but I cant go over 60 seconds on you tube shorts. I’ll keep it posting.
 
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