Thank you and everyone else for your help!

Kelly

"Jim Lewis" wrote in message
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Won't it be susceptible to disease outside?


MUCH less than inside. Trees belong outside. We bring them
inside because some folks like green in the house (shudder), but
MOST trees don't like it indoors. The indoor environment is very
hostile -- too dry, often too hot, in the summer, air
conditioning can make it too cold (and again, very dry) -- but
mostly too dry, MUCH too dry. Misting and humidity trays do very
little (almost nothing!) to raise the humidity. Bringing in a
humidifier to raise the humidity to what the plant wants will
make the indoor environment uncomfortable for YOU -- and mildew
your furniture.

Outside, there is sunlight, natural breezes -- and HUMIDITY
(unless you live in Yuma). All trees revel in these conditions.

You are much more likely to get a serious infestation of mites,
aphids, scale, etc. indoors than out, because the indoor
environment stresses the trees and they don't have the resources
to fight back, AND because natural predators are not present.

As for diseases, the sunlight, wind, and rain help keep many
fungus diseases at bay -- though watering the leaves (as in rain)
_can_ promote others. However, the same applies indoors when you
water your plants.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.


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