soil Imsulating hydro (or just soil) buckets?

Im just wondering if anyone is insulating their buckets.
For my drip hydro I duct tape an old towell around them then wrap aluminum foil.
Im trying to keep the water temps down.
For my tower garden it has a 20 gal res and I grow watermellon in 1 of the lowest holes. It ends up covering the whole res with vines so no worries there.

What part of southern california are you in? The easiest and cheapest way is to dig a hole in the ground and put your pot in it. Being below the soil line will keep your root system nice and cool.

Edmick said:

What part of southern california are you in? The easiest and cheapest way is to dig a hole in the ground and put your pot in it. Being below the soil line will keep your root system nice and cool.

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Buckets are on edge of a patio. I have raised beds for in ground. Thanks. Oh and Im by the Rose Bowl. La Canada, Pasadena area.

scrufy said:

Buckets are on edge of a patio. I have raised beds for in ground. Thanks. Oh and Im by the Rose Bowl. La Canada, Pasadena area.

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Oh cool you're about an hour away from me. Gonna be hot later this week.. Really hot

Yeah its getting into 100+ tomorrow- they say could get 105 at my house.
Just a tip, but in my bigger hydro stuff with 20 gal reseviors I put a frozen water filled 2 liter soda bottle in the tanks in the morning. Seems to be fine. Melted by when I get home from work and i take it out, rinse and refreeze.
Got it from a tip here years ago.

It just hit 118 here. Even my hydroponic plants are all wilted and they usually dont.

scrufy said:

It just hit 118 here. Even my hydroponic plants are all wilted and they usually dont.

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Yep this was the temp standing in the sun on friday.

Whatever plant that is in the background behind the thermometer, that's the species that will survive global warming.

It looks like it's loving life at 118.

DontPanic said:

Whatever plant that is in the background behind the thermometer, that's the species that will survive global warming.

It looks like it's loving life at 118.

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thats zucchini and squash. They seem pretty bulletproof as long as I keep them well watered. It seems if I let them wilt even once they get BER.

Edmick said:

thats zucchini and squash. They seem pretty bulletproof as long as I keep them well watered. It seems if I let them wilt even once they get BER.

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Good to know as I'm growing some winter and summer squash and have focused so much of my trial/error/research in peps and toms was not sure how those behaved to watering habits..

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YAMracer754 said:

Good to know as I'm growing some winter and summer squash and have focused so much of my trial/error/research in peps and toms was not sure how those behaved to watering habits..

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It's just like anything else though in the sense that you wanna make sure to not over water and have them in a well draining spot but these plants get so damn massive with giant leaves that I imagine theres a ton of transpiration and they pull a lot of moisture, so from personal experience, it's pretty hard to overwater them. I could totally flood my plants and they seem to enjoy every bit that I give them. That's just my experience In my environment though. It's hot and dry here so maybe hot and humid environments would have different results.

Edmick said:

It's just like anything else though in the sense that you wanna make sure to not over water and have them in a well draining spot but these plants get so damn massive with giant leaves that I imagine theres a ton of transpiration and they pull a lot of moisture, so from personal experience, it's pretty hard to overwater them. I could totally flood my plants and they seem to enjoy every bit that I give them. That's just my experience In my environment though. It's hot and dry here so maybe hot and humid environments would have different results.

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Yeah I was thinking the same thing about the massiveness and on how they must transpire and really use the water! I got some already that have 10-15' long vines! They're beasts, almost invasive if you don't train and direct them so I built a vertical trellis with a shelf in the middle to hopefully hold the fruit and if anything add some structure and rigidity to the weak ass wood lathe.. It's not cedar like lathe I've had before in a house I lived in built way back when.. I just built it last night so I don't have the vines strung up yet so some are under the "shelf"

I was reading its different or difficult to vertical grow winter squash to finish on a vertical trellis due to the weight of the fruits and/or some other stuff.. Idk? Here's the trellis, and I got some other growing original style on the ground, and a couple summer squash in upside down Tom cages (the little ones that are no good for toms) don't mind the newspaper and stuff I am finishing up laying down my composted straw at the moment - it's soooo humus rich it's crazy! Growing shrooms and black and all-lots of pretreatment for like a month to add nitrogen compost teas etc to prevent any nitrogen fixation from soil surface and if anything enrich the soil right from the get go!

Definitely time to update my GLOG!! Garden Going crazy! Now I got a business name it's called Gourmet Garden Rarities, I'm trying something based off your idea just need to get everything else setup like consumer base, business cards, finish website, etc

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