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  • From: Thomas P Hurtgen <hurtgenmeadows AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fruit Set Temperatures
  • Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 06:58:04 -0400

Allan and others, In zone 7b our eggplants quit blossoming and fruiting after
a very weak start. Peppers seem okay. Tomatoes okay although starting to
dry up. We've probably had about 12-15 days over 100. Also looking for a
temperature chart. Tom

Thomas P Hurtgen
hurtgenmeadows AT gmail.com




On Aug 5, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Allan Balliett wrote:

> Howdy -
>
> Here in the mid-atlantic our daytime temps have been staying pretty
> much up in the 90s the last 3 weeks or so.
>
> While I got pretty good harvests of tomatoes, eggplants and sweet
> peppers last week, I don't see much fruit out there this week on the
> peppers or egg plants (tomatoes are, fortunately, loaded)
>
> I don't see many blossoms, either.
>
> I have some bush beans that are full of blossoms but are taking their
> sweet time to make any beans.
>
> Mr. Google has let me down for locating a precise and authorative
> explanation of reduced fruit set in peppers and eggplants and beans
> due to high heat that I can pass along to my CSA members this week.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone reading this list can point me to such a
> document (like from a University, or something)
>
> Or, am I kidding myself and my peppers and eggplants have just quit
> after one fruit set?
>
> It's raining outside right now. Praise the Lord! I don't think it's
> getting cooler any time soon, though.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Allan
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