Is the weather going crazy anywhere else? It is here. I usually get my orchids out into the summer air about mid-May. This year
it was about two weeks later. And since then, I have had to move them inside again for the second time!!! The temps got down to
10°C/49°F last night on the balcony where many summer out, and even down to 15°C/59°F on my sheltered terrace, where I had to move
them to. This is getting to be annoying, especially since I have a Potinara that is budding for the first time and I am waiting
rather impatiently for it to bloom. THAT one stayed in the kitchen for the night!
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 07:31:04 +0200, "Reka"
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Is the weather going crazy anywhere else? It is here. I usually get my orchids out into the summer air about mid-May. This year
it was about two weeks later. And since then, I have had to move them inside again for the second time!!! The temps got down to
10?C/49?F last night on the balcony where many summer out, and even down to 15?C/59?F on my sheltered terrace, where I had to move
them to. This is getting to be annoying, especially since I have a Potinara that is budding for the first time and I am waiting
rather impatiently for it to bloom. THAT one stayed in the kitchen for the night!

The 15?C/59?F should not bother them. This is in the range I
heat to during winter nights. You might even get a new spike out
of a Phal.
With the 10?C/49?F I would worry that the actual was lower than
the predicted.

SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php

Hi Reka, We have our normal "June Gloom" here in S.Cal. What are the normal
average temps at this time in your neck of the woods.
That is a lot of exercise, taking plants back & forth, but I wouldn't
mind, if I could!
Can you not just throw a sheet over them at night?
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Reka wrote:
Is the weather going crazy anywhere else? It is here. I usually get
my orchids out into the summer air about mid-May. This year it was
about two weeks later. And since then, I have had to move them
inside again for the second time!!! The temps got down to 10°C/49°F
last night on the balcony where many summer out, and even down to
15°C/59°F on my sheltered terrace, where I had to move them to. This
is getting to be annoying, especially since I have a Potinara that is
budding for the first time and I am waiting rather impatiently for it
to bloom. THAT one stayed in the kitchen for the night!

Reka,

I agree with Susan. As long as the temps *really* didn't go below about 42
or even 40 -- as long as your plants are dry, there are few hybrids that
will keel over and die.

We can grow a WIDE variety of Cattleya hybrids outside in the Bay Area - and
we go into the low 50s all year round in SF and Oakland. Anything with
Sophronitis in it gets a nice cold tolerance as a side effect. Laelia anceps
can take freezing - so if the hybrid has a recent shot of that, you're
totally made.

-Eric in SF
www.orchidphotos.org

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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 07:31:04 +0200, "Reka"
wrote:

Is the weather going crazy anywhere else? It is here. I usually get my
orchids out into the summer air about mid-May. This year
it was about two weeks later. And since then, I have had to move them
inside again for the second time!!! The temps got down to
10?C/49?F last night on the balcony where many summer out, and even down
to 15?C/59?F on my sheltered terrace, where I had to move
them to. This is getting to be annoying, especially since I have a
Potinara that is budding for the first time and I am waiting
rather impatiently for it to bloom. THAT one stayed in the kitchen for
the night!

The 15?C/59?F should not bother them. This is in the range I
heat to during winter nights. You might even get a new spike out
of a Phal.
With the 10?C/49?F I would worry that the actual was lower than
the predicted.

SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php

"Eric Hunt" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ...
Reka,

I agree with Susan. As long as the temps *really* didn't go below about 42
or even 40 -- as long as your plants are dry, there are few hybrids that
will keel over and die.

We can grow a WIDE variety of Cattleya hybrids outside in the Bay Area - and
we go into the low 50s all year round in SF and Oakland. Anything with
Sophronitis in it gets a nice cold tolerance as a side effect. Laelia anceps
can take freezing - so if the hybrid has a recent shot of that, you're
totally made.

Ack! and I took my guerrero seedling in! Maybe it would finally bloom!
Yeah, I'm not too worried about some. Left the Dens and reedstem Epis out. I was more worried about Phals and Catts. Luckily my
13-year-old son was kind enough to help me and it only took about ten minutes and only one pot tipped over, a Phal I needed to repot
anyway!
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Reka

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"wendy7" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:brCBc.8719$tC5.2603@fed1read02...
Hi Reka, We have our normal "June Gloom" here in S.Cal. What are the normal
average temps at this time in your neck of the woods.
That is a lot of exercise, taking plants back & forth, but I wouldn't
mind, if I could!
Can you not just throw a sheet over them at night?
--
I don't have any sheets! We use down duvets. Besides, I would need a hotel's worth to cover plants on two balconies, hanging and
standing. My Cym should enjoy the drop in temps. Maybe it will bloom next year!
Our night averages are probably in the seventies. Bolzano is the warmest region in the summer, the coldest in the winter. We can
grow olive trees and palm trees here, but not all types of course.
--
Reka

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