It's getting f**king cold!!!!

[Chiliac]

Don't know what's it like where you live, but over here, it's getting really cold during the night, so I decided to protect my plants from possible frost. It's too cold for the time of the year and most are still loaded with pods, so I refuse to move them indoors already.

I bought a load of so called Tomato ripening hoods and gave every plant its own little greenhouse. I need to buy more tomorrow, I ran out, but left the plants without one that can take some cold, i.e. Rocotos.

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj317/chiliac/Chilis%202008/DSC02450.jpg

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj317/chiliac/Chilis%202008/DSC02452.jpg

While I was at it, I harvested a few peppers, too.

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj317/chiliac/Chilis%202008/DSC02457.jpg

[rainbowberry]

It's getting really cold here too Chiliac, it's really damp and misty in the mornings and the slugs love it.

[Chiliac]

It's too cold even for the slugs down here. I always spotted several of them in my garden, but since Monday or so I've hardly seen any and those I saw were hiding in their shells.

[AlabamaJack]

great shots Chiliac...and I love the face...please keep us posted on the ripening hoods...I am probably going to have to do something like that to a bunch of my plants...temps for the next 10 days here are running 80-87F (27-30C) in the day and 60-64F (14-16C) at night...it was 52F (11C)yesterday morning....

[moyboy]

I'm sorry to hear that you guys are starting to cool down. But i can't help but feel a little flutter in my heart as that means it's chilli time for me....:onfire::hell:

Sorry, but it's hard to contain my excitement....

It's scary cause you guys are gettig colder than normal whether for this time of the year and we are getting hotter than normal whether for this time of the year. it is forecasted to hit 30 degrees C (86F) here on saturday but i'm not complaining...:)

I hope the cold holds off for you guys and i hope the bags work Chilliac

[Chiliac]

Thanks guys, I hope they work well, too. I'll keep you posted for sure!

[POTAWIE]

I just narrowly avoided frost two nights in a row but it's supposed to go down to 1 C tonight:(

[LUCKYDOG]

ITs getting down into the 40'sF here tonight its that time of year again -everything is pushing out like mad

[skealo]

We're still in the 70's right now and I'm hoping the cold holds off until all my peppers can ripen... Still waiting on St Lucia and Grenada Seasoning peppers...

Good Luck!

[AlabamaJack]

We're still in the 70's right now and I'm hoping the cold holds off until all my peppers can ripen... Still waiting on St Lucia and Grenada Seasoning peppers...

Good Luck!

what's your night time lows Skealo?

[915river]

Here where I live in Northeastern Ohio in Hinckley so far so good because all bunch C.Chinense & my C.Galapagoense still are green just few here & there showing sign of ripening color hope stay like this at least few more weeks, at least I have some ripe hotties than I will be very happy I hope.

[skealo]

what's your night time lows Skealo?

Mid to Lower 50s right now. Nothing yet in the 40s.

[AlabamaJack]

that good...lets all hope for a late first frost...

just looked...average first frost here is mid November

[skealo]

that good...lets all hope for a late first frost...

just looked...average first frost here is mid November

Where did you look? I'd love to see when our is.

[Josh]

Don't know what's it like where you live, but over here, it's getting really cold during the night, so I decided to protect my plants from possible frost. It's too cold for the time of the year and most are still loaded with pods, so I refuse to move them indoors already.

I bought a load of so called Tomato ripening hoods and gave every plant its own little greenhouse. I need to buy more tomorrow, I ran out, but left the plants without one that can take some cold, i.e. Rocotos.

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj317/chiliac/Chilis%202008/DSC02450.jpg

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj317/chiliac/Chilis%202008/DSC02452.jpg

While I was at it, I harvested a few peppers, too.

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj317/chiliac/Chilis%202008/DSC02457.jpg
They kind of look like gift baskets now. Maybe you should send them out to everyone in this thread. We wont mind haha.
Like everyone said keep us updated. Any chance you can get and early morning temp inside those bags through a hole and give us the outside temp. Just curious.

[POTAWIE]

We got a heavy frost here this morning, and its still officially summer:(

[AlabamaJack]

Where did you look? I'd love to see when our is.

Depending on where you live in the county‚ the growing season can vary by as much as 10 days. The average last frost is around mid-May‚ and the average first frost is mid-October.

from this link....I just googled "average first frost for crown point indiana"

http://imagescrownpoint.com/index.php?/site/articles/quick_links/gardening_in_crown_point

Potawie...are you going to lose a lot plants?

[POTAWIE]

Things aren't looking too bad here. I managed to get most of my productive plants into the greenhouses and some of the others got sheets put over them. At least 30 plants were tossed in the compost yesterday since they weren't going to produce anymore. Today its going up to 20C with a low of 10C tonight:cool:

[Chiliac]

Like everyone said keep us updated. Any chance you can get and early morning temp inside those bags through a hole and give us the outside temp. Just curious.

Good idea, I'll do it this weekend and post the results! ha, I should've thought of it myself. :)

[QuadShotz]

Heck, and I wish it'll cool off here. ;)

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It was nearly 90F earlier this week.

[Wide-O]

Over here we are down to 4°C at night. Still hovering around 20°C during daytime. Clear skies account for the difference.

[teh purple penguins]

it was 100 degrees and 80 at night then 90 at day and 60 at night, now it's 70 and 50 at night, i'm so confused by September D:

[Chiliac]

I know what you mean, kinda confusing here, too. Pretty cold (below 1o°C) in the night and today it was nice and warm - I was working in my garden in a T-Shirt... Tomorrow might be completely different. All one can do is be prepared for the worst case scenario (i.e. frost)!

[teh purple penguins]

don't say the f word.. sheesh. yea i know in good news i just chopped back a bs chile plant and transplanted a tom stem on it :) mmm beer gives me so many good ideas!!

[HotPeppersFlyFishing]

Yikes Chiliac,hope you get thru it ok!!

[whocares]

Here we continue between 25ºC for the day and 18ºC for the night, average. It's funny because these are the temps that we had all the season long, through Spring and Summer, till now ... I'm beginning to think that Porto is trapped into a perpetual Autumn :(

[pepperfever]

Hope things are going good for you Chiliac, hate to think of frost getting your pods. How are the plastic covers working? Think it's always a battle at this time of year to see if the peppers ripen before the frost.

[talas]

Things aren't looking too bad here. I managed to get most of my productive plants into the greenhouses and some of the others got sheets put over them. At least 30 plants were tossed in the compost yesterday since they weren't going to produce anymore. Today its going up to 20C with a low of 10C tonight:cool:

Looks to be about the same across the u.k cant complain at those Temps :cool: