[Market-farming] Seedling growth vs temps

tonitime at juno.com tonitime at juno.com
Thu Jan 10 14:01:17 EST 2008


Carla, are you also giving your plants plenty of air movement for stem
strengthening?  I did experiment a bit in the past, and saw a real
difference with those that had either an oscillating fan blowing on them
(from a tender age) - or raked across the plant tops serveral times
daily, to those w/o some dramatic air movement.  I did that after reading
an article that had Japanese greenhouse tomatoe workers with feathers
bundles teasing their plants!  I forget the name of that attribute
tomatoes have - anyone fill me in?
That's just a thought if "stretching" is similar to "spindly"!
Toni

Carla said:
In my greenhouse at least, if the temps get too high I start seeing a lot
of stretching with my plants.



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