Dave2000
Deeply Rooted
I was lazy/busy and didn't harden most of my peppers at all this year and none seem to have had a problem with the 90F+ temperatures they saw the first few days outside.
I would guess the reason why is they had plenty of light indoors under some 6K color temp fluorescent light bulbs, that I let them grow very close to the bulbs (almost until leaves touched them) which they tolerated because the semi-enclosed space they were in had a small fan to keep the heat more evenly circulated instead of wilting the top leaves, they stayed at about 85F from initial seeding until moved outside.
Not sure if that would work as well with tomatoes since they grow so fast and tall while the peppers respond to the environment by getting more bushy, less leggy instead.
I would guess the reason why is they had plenty of light indoors under some 6K color temp fluorescent light bulbs, that I let them grow very close to the bulbs (almost until leaves touched them) which they tolerated because the semi-enclosed space they were in had a small fan to keep the heat more evenly circulated instead of wilting the top leaves, they stayed at about 85F from initial seeding until moved outside.
Not sure if that would work as well with tomatoes since they grow so fast and tall while the peppers respond to the environment by getting more bushy, less leggy instead.
