So, I planted this Larch tree 30 years ago and it's beautiful. But, it's shading my plots!
That doesn't happen until around 4:30pm, but still! LOL
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This may not apply up there, but,
I intentionally left a tree that shades off my plants between 4-6ish. Hottest most humid part of the day here. gets in the 90s, near 100 a lot through summer here, and always between 4-6pm. humidity can get into the 80% area because of all the plants heavily transpiring. When that happens, transpiration stops working for a couple hours, and plants just get wet. They literally sweat and drip water right into their own flowers lol. Trees will make you think its about to rain under a cloudless sky sometimes. Just a random drop of water to the face
one of the few times i grew back here outside as a younger lad that def shouldnt have been growing weed outside, I noticed that my plants getting shaded during that period just had overall less mold, pm, bud rot issues come harvest, and bud development and plant size wasnt really any different. Really it seemed a bit better. I was trying to grow mostly heavy indicas back then though, which is a little bit unwise here i think. I still think my plants appreciate it though, it's something ill probably always try to do for em tbh, at least here where sometimes transpiration makes things worse for you and plants both lmao
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. When your sweat isn't working, a plant's isn't either lol
But Ive been plenty satisfied with bud size and development on most plants fed well and getting at least 4 hours of direct a day. Many are not lmao. But i dont think your plants will mind shading off at the hottest part of the day too much, even if not super hot. They may even thank you for it if you have a super muggy fall.