I left a plant outside just to see if it would do good with all that sun, but it didn't, it burnt up,I only had it out there for maybe 5 or 6 hours.... need to have some kind of shadescreen or something. This wasn't even during summer either, this was probably a month ago. But I have been dealing with the heat, I have a AC/Swamp cooler that I keep in my garage and It's been doing great until a few days ago, the power kept going off, it wouldn't stay on, I had to keep going to the breaker box and flipping the switch,I finally brought the garden inside to one of my kids rooms, had to move my youngest son to my older sons room, just for the summer, when it cools down, it will go back in the garage. Gotta see if I can fix it so it wont keep flipping. Either that or I will just stop growing in the summer and start up again when it cools down, couldnt do that now though, I got too many plants that are still halfway.
I heard if your growing outside, you gotta have like an 8 foot wall surrounding the area.
CINDARELLA99 most plants will UV burn badly if taken from an indoor environment and
placed outside in full sun without being hardened off first......If you harden them off properly , they will fare much better outside.....
I grew 2 years in desert heat,learned a lot by that experience, and no thanks,never again.....I'll take a temperate climate any day over the desert temperature extremes........ pretty much nothing but dry hot days and cold nites in the desert
My plants never appreciated the temperature extremes or the cold nites in the Fall and Spring much.......
In that Summer heat the plants will do best in large well mulched holes of organic soil
Container plants will have to be buried in the ground to avoid cooking the roots.......If you're dead set on containers,try to avoid using black pots if possible......
And you'll need copious amounts of water ,and some shade cloth would be good as well
There's nothing much about 115 degree heat that they like ,they will survive ,but Arizona sure isn't Humboldt or Mendo......
Be careful tending plants in the ground as the rattlesnakes love to hang out around the moist soil where it's a bit cooler
I've had more than one occasion of rattlers hanging out around my plants,they will help with the rodents though......:)
Good quality outdoor can be done there ,but it's not that easy by any stretch of the imagination
The best Arizona outdoor I've ever seen was some Hawaiian genetics that were grown there in the late Fall/early Winter in a greenhouse
Good luck!
