Good luck.
Stick them in the dark at say 10pm and back out at 10am to get them flowering early. I'm at almost 56N in northern Alberta and we've had frost as early as Aug 15 tho the last few years it's been coming a lot later. I gave up doing outdoor grows many years ago. Always end up covered in mites and thrips too.
Light deprivation. Throw a cheap hoop house over them and use a tarp. I’ve had to do this way more than once.
What’s super disappointing is a couple of hard freezes followed by a long Indian summer.Stick them in the dark at say 10pm and back out at 10am to get them flowering early. I'm at almost 56N in northern Alberta and we've had frost as early as Aug 15 tho the last few years it's been coming a lot later. I gave up doing outdoor grows many years ago. Always end up covered in mites and thrips too.
No shit eh. That's what happens here every f'n year. Same shit in the spring and this year the wife decided to stick her tomatoes in the ground earlier than usual and damn near lost them all. I told her to wait until June 7.
You should start pretty soon figuring that you'll need about 9 weeks for them to be ripe and that will bring you to the same day in Sept.
Should be black as coal but without constant daily coverup it likely won't work.
Probably best to do that then. Should be done naturally by or before the middle of Oct when I plan to be out in BC catching Coho salmon on my b-day on the 14th.
