There you go DL…. I now hand over to you for Q &A time:)

Lucky1 said:

I’ve never seen potted bananas before. How will it go when you have to cut the old trunks down? Will there be room for the new suckers?

bubba louie said:

Lucky1 said:

I’ve never seen potted bananas before. How will it go when you have to cut the old trunks down? Will there be room for the new suckers?

no but not a problem as they will be put in the ground before winter. Other than that all are healthy as :)

Thanks L1 for your kindness

drylander1 said:

Thanks L1 for your kindness

You are most welcome:D

Lucky1 said:

There you go DL…. I now hand over to you for Q &A time:)

Ok the last was our method of beating the heat on the bed. A lot of people think that 40c+ isn’t all that bad but I put a thermometer there before the shade cloth and it was over 50c in direct sun….top of therm blew out lol

The other pictures are of the mango & the bananas …as you can see the heat never bothered the mango

Ok the last was our method of beating the heat on the bed. A lot of people think that 40c+ isn’t all that bad but I put a thermometer there before the shade cloth and it was over 50c in direct sun….top of therm blew out lol
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Yep my dad was telling me about it all. Actually my Step mum was… dad was laying flat from the heat:(

Lucky1 said:

Ok the last was our method of beating the heat on the bed. A lot of people think that 40c+ isn’t all that bad but I put a thermometer there before the shade cloth and it was over 50c in direct sun….top of therm blew out lol
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Yep my dad was telling me about it all. Actually my Step mum was… dad was laying flat from the heat:(

I know it is all terribly unscientific as thermometers were never devised to give an accurate reading in direct sun. The are devised to measure air temp in a controlled environment. This is known as ambient temperature. When the thermometer is in the shade, it is reading the temperature of the air around it. When it’s in direct sunlight, in addition to responding to the air temperature, it is soaking up radiant energy from the light that falls upon it. That part of the light which is absorbed by the thermometer will be converted into heat in the thermometer itself. That heat energy, plus that gained from the nearby air results in the higher direct sunlight reading.

You know yourself as you move around the yard particularly on colder days that some parts of the yard are warmer because they are in direct sun. I have recorded 60ºC on a midwinter morning at 10 AM by placing the thermometer on the concrete leaning agains an easterly facing brick wall. Also I have had a sunburned nose from fossicking for opal on the white mullock heaps in midwinter. So yes, taking away the direct sunlight by shading is going to reduce the effect of solar radiation. This is why we are told to move out of the sun after ten minutes exposure to avoid sunburn. know who hot metal gets when left sitting in the sun? Even if you are clothed the absorbtion of radiant energy is going to build up and create heat stress. Plants can only stand direct sun if they have an available supply of water to pump up and cool themselves with by transpiration.On a 44º C day, the thermometer may read anything between 70 and 80ºC if sat facing the sun on a post.

There would be big money in a UV filter. Not shadecloth as it reduces light. I’d reckon some material that reduces UV or blocks UV from passing in such great quantities. This way we may be able to continue to grow our tomatoes in the sun where they’d like to be without flooding the whole yard.

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~brooksdr/DRB_web_page/construction/pyranometer/pyranometer.htm

roughbarked said:

Lucky1 said:

Ok the last was our method of beating the heat on the bed. A lot of people think that 40c+ isn’t all that bad but I put a thermometer there before the shade cloth and it was over 50c in direct sun….top of therm blew out lol
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Yep my dad was telling me about it all. Actually my Step mum was… dad was laying flat from the heat:(

I know it is all terribly unscientific as thermometers were never devised to give an accurate reading in direct sun. The are devised to measure air temp in a controlled environment. This is known as ambient temperature. When the thermometer is in the shade, it is reading the temperature of the air around it. When it’s in direct sunlight, in addition to responding to the air temperature, it is soaking up radiant energy from the light that falls upon it. That part of the light which is absorbed by the thermometer will be converted into heat in the thermometer itself. That heat energy, plus that gained from the nearby air results in the higher direct sunlight reading.

You know yourself as you move around the yard particularly on colder days that some parts of the yard are warmer because they are in direct sun. I have recorded 60ºC on a midwinter morning at 10 AM by placing the thermometer on the concrete leaning agains an easterly facing brick wall. Also I have had a sunburned nose from fossicking for opal on the white mullock heaps in midwinter. So yes, taking away the direct sunlight by shading is going to reduce the effect of solar radiation. This is why we are told to move out of the sun after ten minutes exposure to avoid sunburn. know who hot metal gets when left sitting in the sun? Even if you are clothed the absorbtion of radiant energy is going to build up and create heat stress. Plants can only stand direct sun if they have an available supply of water to pump up and cool themselves with by transpiration.On a 44º C day, the thermometer may read anything between 70 and 80ºC if sat facing the sun on a post.

There would be big money in a UV filter. Not shadecloth as it reduces light. I’d reckon some material that reduces UV or blocks UV from passing in such great quantities. This way we may be able to continue to grow our tomatoes in the sun where they’d like to be without flooding the whole yard.

Bonzer info RB!
And you’ve just told me why some ‘full sun’ plants do better under my white polycarbonate patio roof, than out in the garden.
They have full bright light but are protected by the 60% UV filter….