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Originally Posted by caliboy1994
I'm worried about it becoming too hot for the corm and the roots, and possibly becoming too moist and causing root in the cooler conditions. I have added it fresh to bananas before and they didn't seem to mind.
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Exactly.
One of my commercial customers in San Diego starts tomatoes now for production in Nov-Feb. His set-up is essentially outdoor hydroponic. He has some shelters with 4-foot high walls made of fence-board, and above that an A-frame with translucent plastic used for boat sails. The shelters are about 80 feet long. The produce are in 5 gallon buckets with perlite. It is a recirculating system: there is a holding tank with water and nutrients that are disbursed to the plants about once per day and then the filtered output is returned to the tank. This guy also has a real hen house and some goats. The manure is shoveled into the plant shelter daily. Notice that the plants are not in contact with it, but the temperature inside there in January at midnight is about 70F.