Whoa, 104F, that’s really hot. I’ve not been enjoying the heat, but it’s not nearly that hot.
I live in a rural place though, so we don’t really have the same pressures as in an urban or suburban setting. That’s one thing I don’t miss about living in the city (or worse, the suburbs).
Not really in my area in 2017 I believe it was 113 and the same year Cali almost broke it’s record of heat by like one degree in the Death Valley area. I’m enjoying this weather lol
Its pissing me off cause here the heat brings the humidity. Flowers are currently in 85-87F and RH climbing to the 70s after watering, and having an issue keeping it to 60% or lower otherwise!! ARGH. 2 x 6" fans exhausting, and a dehumidifier (great, it lowers RH but adds heat!). I should chop this week though… So thats a good thing…
As long as you got airflow, it ain’t a thing. You actually want slightly higher humidity with a higher temp. I always say, checkout humid US states or Mexico or islands like Jamaica for comparison. VPD is more important than anything. That’s a tool that’s more exact, because it can be replicated in any situation, which is what you aim for when conducting experiments.
temp and humidity alone don’t tell the whole story.
Oh I follow a VPD chart pretty intensely. The higher temps help with the higher humidity, not that I want higher humidity! I wanna be at 50-55% (in flower) at 87F, and struggling at 60-62% and in the home stretch with some HEAVY dense blueberry buds that I dont want to rot. Normally I’d be in the 70’sF and 40% RH range any other season, but summer here is no fun inside (they were supposed to be outside, but planning to move doesn’t leave me here when they would finish, so they were moved back inside to force the timing).
As long as you got airflow you’re going to be fine and I wouldn’t worry, again, outdoors in those places I mentioned are easy 90F+ and 70% humidity and finish just fine, the real problem is if they get rained on for rot, however, you’re inside so there’s no chance of that.
Yeah the house is trying it’s best to keep cool but the high humidity makes it hard for the ac to actually do it’s thing. Quigley and Bubbles have yet to complain about the heat being genetically from Oz; and Celia is from Texas so she doesn’t know any better and loves sitting in the sun
I lived in the high desert next to Death Valley where it would get 126° F in summer and the #1 problem there was that people cheaped out and instead of buying real air conditioners for their houses purchased cheaper swamp coolers which only add moisture to the air instead of acting as a heat pump. Dumb. If it was ever moist out there you would still need an air conditioner to remove humidity and cool the air, not a swamp cooler adding moisture to the humid air.