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When do you put your peppers out overnight?
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Temps are just one issue. They need to be hardened off properly against wind, rain, etc. Peppers ideally like 60+ lows at night, but you can get away with 50+ deg. They may stunt a tiny bit, but it never hurt me much.
Harden off slowly. Over 2 weeks adding more exposure and sunlight each day. It's a long process and necessary.
Harden off slowly. Over 2 weeks adding more exposure and sunlight each day. It's a long process and necessary.
I've been trucking them in and out of the garage for nearly 3 weeks now. :|
Getting tired of it! Takes about 10 mins twice a day... got a couple of plants over 3' tall, most are still about 12-24" though... still makes for about a dozen trips to the garage and back with my rubbermaids...
Maybe if I put up a cloche or something it would help. Hmmm.
Getting tired of it! Takes about 10 mins twice a day... got a couple of plants over 3' tall, most are still about 12-24" though... still makes for about a dozen trips to the garage and back with my rubbermaids...
Maybe if I put up a cloche or something it would help. Hmmm.
I'll be putting mine out overnight soon (actualyl had three out last night as a test run). Temps will be getting down to 40F.
This is an excellent question. I was going to ask it last night, but the damn computer was hiding from me.
I'm also hardening off my plants, and it's been raining so hard every day here, I've had no choice but to leave them on my screened in back porch each morning before work so that they get filtered sunlight for about 3-4 hours. The only other times I've been able to get them out of the house on weekends it's been cloudy, so I just stick them in the "sunniest" spot I can find.
MY question was whether it is necessary to acclimate plants to a normal light cycle if they've been under 24hr light. For now, I've been bringing them inside each evening and putting them back under the lights. However, they're in a room with a ceiling fan blowing all day too, and all the windows are opened to let in cool night air, so they're pretty much used to the temps.
Should I just begin leaving them outside all the time in a protected place if they can handle it, and then just begin to slowly build in sunlight exposure?
I'm also hardening off my plants, and it's been raining so hard every day here, I've had no choice but to leave them on my screened in back porch each morning before work so that they get filtered sunlight for about 3-4 hours. The only other times I've been able to get them out of the house on weekends it's been cloudy, so I just stick them in the "sunniest" spot I can find.
MY question was whether it is necessary to acclimate plants to a normal light cycle if they've been under 24hr light. For now, I've been bringing them inside each evening and putting them back under the lights. However, they're in a room with a ceiling fan blowing all day too, and all the windows are opened to let in cool night air, so they're pretty much used to the temps.
Should I just begin leaving them outside all the time in a protected place if they can handle it, and then just begin to slowly build in sunlight exposure?
I started putting mine out this week as I repotted them and have no room in the house for the pots and no garageor greenhouse or any kind of cool stuff like that. They're out on the front porch which faces west, so it gets some afternoon and evening sun, a little wind, but not much rain as it's covered. I have started watering with a light hosing though, hoping that's good enough to simulate rain.
In another week or so, I plan to move them to the back yard, where the sun will be on them more and they'll be open to more wind and rain. The only peppers I've ever grown from seed before these were done pretty much the same way and they ended up good.
Granted, any advice from me is the blind leading the blind, so be forewarned.
In another week or so, I plan to move them to the back yard, where the sun will be on them more and they'll be open to more wind and rain. The only peppers I've ever grown from seed before these were done pretty much the same way and they ended up good.
Granted, any advice from me is the blind leading the blind, so be forewarned.
My Habaneros have been out for a week now, I only bring them in when the temps are lower than 40F.
Night temps have been in low 40s to low 50s, and they didnt even notice it.
They are doing great out there.
I think the low temp is a tad overraited, I left my Habaneros outside till october last year, and they continued to set fruit in 50F weather and 40F nights.
The only thing the cold did was slow the ripening process and growth.
Night temps have been in low 40s to low 50s, and they didnt even notice it.
They are doing great out there.
I think the low temp is a tad overraited, I left my Habaneros outside till october last year, and they continued to set fruit in 50F weather and 40F nights.
The only thing the cold did was slow the ripening process and growth.
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Mine have been out permanently for a little over a month. Temps have crept close to freezing but they are doing just fine. I have a front porch that gets direct sun from 330/4 till sundown and I just stick them out there for a few weeks. Unless we have rain for days straight like we have now, they usually get stashed around the yard after 3 weeks on the porch. If it is raining constantly I put them back on the porch so they do not get overwatered.