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Hi #gardening community, I'm grateful in advance for any advice you can offer. I have about 6 "baby" cantaloupes that have looked like this for days with no visible growth. Like they're just kind of stuck in this phase. The plants seem healthy, green, spreading like crazy.
Any idea what's going on?
@killyourfm Where are you? We are having similar issues, researched it, and it’s definitely from the prolonged extreme heat with little to no rain. (We're in Durham, NC)
Oregon Coast Trail @killyourfm@layer8.space@aburtch Different area, same weather. Zone 9b in California central valley. It has been between 106 and 115 for the last 8 days or so.
Brutal heat, but the garden is surviving it. Hope yours is too. Maybe it IS just the excessive heat that has stalled them…
Thanks for the feedback
@killyourfm Ah! If everything else is the same (no bugs, or soil changes) I definitely think it's the extreme heat. We've been watering to keep everything alive, BUT most growth has stalled. And it's not just the butternut squash. Tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant are all experiencing the same thing.
The only thing that's growing fine in the heat is the okra.
@aburtch This makes sense. I just realized a few of my bellpeppers haven't been growing either, no new tomato blossoms, etc.
Curiously, I do have ONE cantaloupe on that same plant that is growing like crazy...