Heat out doors in desert

Hey guys I'm in a desert area and the summer gets super hot sometimes to 120 out side but I'd like to gro out door weed plants in summer as we have tons of sun what the max heat my out door plants could handle ?

mikerob said:

Hey guys I'm in a desert area and the summer gets super hot sometimes to 120 out side but I'd like to gro out door weed plants in summer as we have tons of sun what the max heat my out door plants could handle ?

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I currently have 20 chocalope clones in and around the garden ... so u dont think the crazy summer desert heat will demolish the plants cause indoors anything above 80 and my plants start showing signs of heat exhaustion

mikerob said:

Hey guys I'm in a desert area and the summer gets super hot sometimes to 120 out side but I'd like to gro out door weed plants in summer as we have tons of sun what the max heat my out door plants could handle ?

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Just remember you will be fighting an uphill battle. Cultivating anything not native to the climate is a struggle in the desert.

I would say go for an equatorial variety but they don't flower well at higher latitudes and they also like higher humidity.

I live in a high desert climate (pot mecca Pueblo County Colorado) and there is a LOT of weed cultivated outdoors but most of it goes to get extracted for edibles and whatnot, it's not high quality twig but it makes oil.

A Sativa would be best I would have imagined for desert climate, could be wrong though.

budman111 said:

A Sativa would be best I would have imagined for desert climate, could be wrong though.

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I grew a strain called Shiva ,indica landrace from the India / Pakistan border. Pretty dry climate there. It had adapted by growing at a crawl during veg but exploding during flower, I assume thats when the rains came. I think that regardless of indica or sativa it's region that would be most important when selecting a landrace strain that is adapted for hot / dry climate. I believe that 90% of the strains bred for indoor growing will struggle in harsh outdoor environments. A plant that has been subjected to many generations of natural selection in a hot and dry climate would be the way to go.

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