Re: [CH] Say it ain't so!

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> I heard from several people (neither Chile-heads so what do they know 
> anyways) that for every night that the temperature drops below around 
> 55 degrees, that you lose 10 days growing on your peppers.
> 
> So let's see......that would mean that me and Byron and some others 
> here in the Northeast may see our peppers come to fruition sometime 
> in February or March?!!!

Below some threshhold, colder weather of course causes delayed maturation,
just as above some threshhold, hotter weather also delays maturation, but
this is definitely an unusable oversimplification in many areas, including
mine as well as upstate NY and New England apparently.  Where I live
(southern San Jose, at south end of San Francisco bay), nighttime low
temperatures are historically below 55 degrees nearly every single night of
the year which would mean, according to this rule, that chiles could
_never_ mature here, but of course they do and always have every summer
(though the tendency of summer nights being above 55 during the past few
years of global warming does make it more difficult to realize the rule is
irrelevant here).

 ---   Brent

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