Tropicals, Outdoors, and Temperatures
- Ivan Mann
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Usually I move the tropicals outdoors in mid March, when the weather forecast has low temperatures above 50F/10C for the next 8 or 9 days. This year every week the forecast has a couple of days below that mark. The forecast for Monday and Tuesday a week from now is 43F/6C. Highs are 72F/22C or so most of this time.
Would two chilly nights hurt them more than the benefit of being outdoors?
Trees in question are ficus, jabuticaba, baobab, mango, and a fukien tea I am keeping for my sister in law, which has been indoors all winter.
I could take them out today and bring some back in next week, but the ficus is big enough to make that difficult. I could take them out and cover them with plastic or something. They really need real sunshine and wind after a long winter.
Would two chilly nights hurt them more than the benefit of being outdoors?
Trees in question are ficus, jabuticaba, baobab, mango, and a fukien tea I am keeping for my sister in law, which has been indoors all winter.
I could take them out today and bring some back in next week, but the ficus is big enough to make that difficult. I could take them out and cover them with plastic or something. They really need real sunshine and wind after a long winter.
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Hey Ivan!
10 ~ 6C seems ok for me, but if you're not that sure, go with protecting it...
Winter nights here goes like 0C and I don't move my ficuses in... Jabuticabas are present in almost every neighboor garden and take that fine... But yeah, since they're not that common there, I would be more carefull.
10 ~ 6C seems ok for me, but if you're not that sure, go with protecting it...
Winter nights here goes like 0C and I don't move my ficuses in... Jabuticabas are present in almost every neighboor garden and take that fine... But yeah, since they're not that common there, I would be more carefull.
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Replied by leatherback on topic Tropicals, Outdoors, and Temperatures
Posted 2 years 8 months ago #75765
Alblas beat me to it.
Agree.
Agree.
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Posted 2 years 8 months ago #75770
An update.
I decided to move them out and hope things would go OK. In that time the forecast for next week raised the lows to 9C both nights, so I am not worried.
And, the bugs that were all over the leaves on two of the trees are completely gone, just as we keep telling people will happen.
I decided to move them out and hope things would go OK. In that time the forecast for next week raised the lows to 9C both nights, so I am not worried.
And, the bugs that were all over the leaves on two of the trees are completely gone, just as we keep telling people will happen.
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