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PureHarvest · June 18, 2019

Bower, the tunnels seem to be about a week or so ahead. However, the one tunnel I had was beat up in a wind storm and I had to remove the cover in late April. Had I been able to keep it on, I wonder if it would have been even earlier. I could have kept them drier and hotter.
Also, I was keeping the sides up during the day in late winter and early spring due to fears of cooking the plants.
I would keep the sides lower or down more often next year to push them further.
I read that the plants stop growing leaves when the temps hit 90. The plants in the tunnel that got messed up were huge early, and I wonder if pushing them earlier with heat would have sped things up even more and still resulted in big bulbs. I harvested the Chesnock in the tunnel they were in on Saturday, and therefore will be one week ahead of the field grown.
My field grown Chesnock look to be really nice. I think most of them will be big bulbs. Gonna harvest them this weekend.
I'd rather dedicate the time and space to more Romanian Red next year and drop the Chesnock. Too many small cloves even in large seed bulbs with Chesnock.
The RR size up the best out of everything I've grown.
No biggie, I'll just sell all the Chesnock and save more of the RR.

June 18, 2019	#34
PureHarvest Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Mid-Atlantic right on the line of Zone 7a and 7b Posts: 1,369	Bower, the tunnels seem to be about a week or so ahead. However, the one tunnel I had was beat up in a wind storm and I had to remove the cover in late April. Had I been able to keep it on, I wonder if it would have been even earlier. I could have kept them drier and hotter. Also, I was keeping the sides up during the day in late winter and early spring due to fears of cooking the plants. I would keep the sides lower or down more often next year to push them further. I read that the plants stop growing leaves when the temps hit 90. The plants in the tunnel that got messed up were huge early, and I wonder if pushing them earlier with heat would have sped things up even more and still resulted in big bulbs. I harvested the Chesnock in the tunnel they were in on Saturday, and therefore will be one week ahead of the field grown. My field grown Chesnock look to be really nice. I think most of them will be big bulbs. Gonna harvest them this weekend. I'd rather dedicate the time and space to more Romanian Red next year and drop the Chesnock. Too many small cloves even in large seed bulbs with Chesnock. The RR size up the best out of everything I've grown. No biggie, I'll just sell all the Chesnock and save more of the RR. Last edited by PureHarvest; June 18, 2019 at 07:31 AM.