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Comment by Ned Berndt on April 14, 2013 at 2:07pm

Any recommendations on the shade percentage?  The walls of my hoop/greenhouse are covered with an insect screen with 40 micron openings to exclude the whitefly that we are infested with. see picture.

Comment by TCLynx on April 14, 2013 at 1:38pm

Put up fans But I would

Remove the sides and ends of the greenhouse.

Put reflective shade cloth up over the outside of the greenhouse.

If your greenhouse is a hoop house sort of structure, open up a ridge vent and remove the cool side of the greenhouse to suck in air from that side and have it rise up to the ridge vent.  Otherwise would just open it up as completely as possible and get the reflective shade up over the top (on the outside if possible.)

Comment by Ned Berndt on April 14, 2013 at 1:32pm

Now that temps and humidity are rising in Miami, anyone have any advice on exhaust fans for greenhouses?

Comment by TCLynx on April 14, 2013 at 1:05pm

Hose timers are also handy that way, set them to automatically turn off after a certain amount of time.  (However they occasionally fail too being cheap plastic contraptions.)

Set your phone timer (just have to remember what it is telling you when it goes off)

Sorry to hear about the disaster Frank, Good luck deciding what to do next.  Terrible to suffer such things but something of the sort happens to most of us at some point in time or other.

Comment by Ned Berndt on April 14, 2013 at 6:30am

Bummer dude!  Sorru to hear about your loss.  I have "unplugged" or "turned on" several things and I too have paid a price.  I have a 600 gallon rain water capture system to top off the water in my system, one day I put the hose in the sump and turned it on to add about 50 gallons.  I remembered at 11:30 that night that I had not turned it off! YIKES!!  Not only had I emptied the barrels but I had over flowed 600 gallons of nutrient/bacteria rich water from the system onto the ground.

NEW RULE- whenever unplugging pumps, aeration or fans OR turning on irrigation or similar.  SET THE TIMER ON THE STOVE IN THE KITCHEN FOR THE DESIRED TIME...IT'S OLD, IT'S CRANKY, IT OBNOXIOUS, BUT IT NEVER FORGETS...not like me!! :-)

Comment by Frank Cates on April 13, 2013 at 12:10pm

Epic Fail:  Last night I was checking some things in the fish tank and had unplugged the air stones and the pump.  Of course I forgot to plug them back in, so all 50 of the bluegills are now dead.  We got them 53 weeks ago, and in that time we had only lost 4 of them.  We were finally seeing some good growth although a bunch of them were still only a few inches long.  We will regroup this week and decide what w want to do.

Comment by TCLynx on March 17, 2013 at 6:02am

Yep in some climates peppers are perennials.  Heck in some climates tomatoes are short lived perennials.

Where I grew up strawberries were perennials but here in FL people re-plant them every year.

Comment by George on March 16, 2013 at 1:46pm

I've read that peppers are perennials - not that they've ever survived a winter at my place.   Keeping one alive over the winter would certainly give you a head start on pepper production.  It takes a long time for them to produce.

Comment by TCLynx on March 14, 2013 at 8:03am

If you have replacement plants already started, then you might do better to re-plant but if re planting means starting seeds this late, the surviving but damaged plants may recover and start producing faster than the new seeds.  It might be kinda hit and miss, the plants that survived, did they produce fruit you really liked, if so it might be worth trying to nurse them along.  If what they produced wasn't all that impressive, then it might be worth replanting to see if you can do better.

I've had a cayenne pepper plant survive for years, it looked like a little tree when it finally gave up.

Comment by Robert Rowe on March 13, 2013 at 9:39am

@Dan Ponton

For what it's worth - My pepper plants have produced for three years, Egg plant have not.

In Phoenix,AZ

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