I have had very good results by burying too pot in the ground at least half way, most of the way is better. Mulch over and around it. Don’t over water it. Water the ground around it took. The roots will find and grow out any holes in the pots and continue to grow out into the ground. From there you can train them any way you want.
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I live about 20 miles west of Las Vegas, NM.
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I have not planted my plastic containers this year…all my cloths only…I could sink them as a buffer, great idea…now just gotta find room in the garden or I could bury them in my 25gal container…5 gal cloth in a 25 gal plastic? What do you think?
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Have you planted in plastic before in the heat that you have Mike? How did they do? I used to use plastic to plant in here in Santa Fe but I got some much heat stress I quit and went to the cloth type. I don’t know about putting the cloth types in the plastic and how it would do. If you do this let me know. I’m following your threads because of good ideas to use not only with growing pot. I grow a wide range of veggies in the summer and the heat is a big challenge this summer.
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I painted all my plastic containers…White and sky blue…I try to line them with a barrier prior to adding the soil. I have used - bubble wrap, the mylar sheets that have air pockets, foam from packages I have received that had items wrapped in them, one of my favorite - PEAT…I buy peat from Ace Hardware,
Black Gold Organic Sphagnum Peat Moss 3.8 cu. ft.
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Quantity: 2
Price: $15.49
I line the container, add soil, line, soil…on and on till finished. I try to keep a layer of about 1-2inch between the walls and the soil. I even use paper - butcher, old newspaper…
I add mulch to the top, silica…
but hot is hot. we hit 118° yesterday…I resort to spraying my cloth containers to cool them off. That is a benefit of the cloth containers
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Asking from a place of ignorance: would plastic not create more of an issue? Does it melt from external influences? Would one of those homemade wall cooler ideas work in between pots? My brain is asunder at the moment so I’m aware translation may be a struggle. I’ll try to find a link.
I wouldn’t put them in a bigger container. There’s nothing like Mother Earth!
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Eric, out of curiosity what kind of soil do you have on that side of the Sangres? I’m very interested because I am interested in planting out doors here. I have caliche/clay/sand here in Santa Fe. It’s ugly, hard packed soil. Think pick ax and explosives. 
Beth, you know my soil is about the same as yours…I use NO NATIVE SOIL…I bought organic soil (my first load was from the county recycle center - I made a raised bed and used it as the foundation). I add compost, organic soil, and home made mulch along with amendments to nurture it into a living acceptable substrate. I add about 20-30% perlite, 20-30% peat/coca, 10-20% vermiculite, and amendments. I do mix in about 10% natural soil for all the calcium in it but I also add gypsum, dolomite and plenty egg shells. To boost it, I add the living ingredients . Guano, kelp, molasses, minerals, azomite, Epsom salt, a few others and add carbon (my mulching, aged for 1 year) as a compost. I also add N,P,K at the start…then only in feedings as needed at the proper timing
It’s good adobi. Mix in lots of peat moss and pumice for drainage and fertilize it with good compost, and something for N, P and K. I use phosphate rock, bone meal and archipelago bat guano for the P. I use greensand, langbeinite and potash for K and chicken manure with straw litter for N and some P and K.
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Yep all three of us could make great adobe houses. Thanks fore the egg shell, I keep forgetting those.
I’m interested in what you guys are doing particularly with this type of soil and learning all I can.
I can use what I learn also on tomatoes they like similar soil to pot. I grow my veggies during the summer. Water is going to become more and more a challenge here in the west. The better techniques I learn the better grower I can become no matter what I’m growing.
I have never had a pot fail because of heat. It rarely gets up into the high 90s here. And burying the pot most of the way up and giving it a good mulch covering moderates the temp of the soil. It stays lots cooler than if the pots were up in 80s to 90s degree air.
What are you growing Beth?
I’m growing a couple of Sativas, Super Lemon Haze and Strawberry Cough and an Indica Granddaddy Purple. I regularly use the GDP as my pain med and helps with insomnia. I like the Sativas to help counter act depression and anxiety that go along with chronic pain and these 2 aren’t racy. I must admit I love SLH and GDP. Pot is very today different from the stuff I smoked in the '70s. 
What are you growing?
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You are doing what I’m doing to grow veggies, raised bed. I don’t use cocoa but do use peat and lots of perlite, lots of Black Gold soil and just started using guano recently. I may have to put a sunshade out there, every thing is baking. I really like your advice to use egg shells, I keep forgetting. I am getting all the supplies to make a compost tea.
I built a shade trellis using schedule pvc 40 from home depot, shade material, also from there
My teas - 5 gal pails…Kelp…some leaves from the yard, drop of molasses, milk (yes…steamed), some Epson salt, I put egg shells in a blender, add vinegar, little water, let it sit for a week, add it to the tea…I aerate the tea with a simple airstone and fish tank air pump. I use it as a foliar spray and tea to water, but it has to cool off if you have it outside. I put it in a spray bottle and 1 gal milk jug, bring those in to cool and use them after they have reached room temp. The tomato love the calcium (not end rot)…I water my tomato - couple mimutes drip EVERY HOUR -for 8 hours…just a 2/3 minute drip… I add bloom nutes and top dress to get more flowers…I grow Hawaii strain to deal with the heat
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My current favorites are Cinderella 99 to start the day and Bianca later, and on days I just don’t feel like doing anything physical because of pain.in my legs mostly. I have several others I’m working with, selecting strains and phenotypes to propagate.
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Thanks for the recipe. Steamed milk? When you say let it sit for a week, where, fridge, room? How potent is your recipe? Is it OK as is or do you cut it with Ph corrected water after it cools? I got my 5 gal pail, a small fish tank pump and an aerator.
Last I heard Nero was in Rome playing "The devil went to Pompeii "
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