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  [Aroid-l] greenhouse
From: "MJ Hatfield" <mjhatfield at oneota.org> on 2004.10.03 at 21:38:43(12242)
Folks,

I’ve
sent these questions to several of you individually who offered help before I
saw the request to post them on list.

Since
two of you asked that the answers to my greenhouse questions be posted to the
list, perhaps we should.

I
hope the other folks on this list aren’t bored with this.

Here
are some of my first, VERY BASIC, questions.

1. What temperature
range would be “ideal” for a majority of Aroids, 65-85F?

2. Should I have a
different temperature range for night?

3. Keep the air
moving of course.

4. Humidity
can’t be too high can it?

5. Direct sun? I am
nestled in amongst trees on the east side and the north side and when the sun
sinks lower in the sky I will have some south shade as well and in the far west
I have more trees. (This was the ONLY spot level enough without trees to even
put a greenhouse and it’s in my front yard.) I think that I can put many plants
under the tables holding other plants so that they will get more shade. I hate
to think of immediately covering the inside of the greenhouse with shade cloth
but I don’t want to scorch them either.

6. I grow mostly
Amorphophallus and in the past have put the dormant tubers either in the
basement (55F) or other places in the house (65-70F) Can they stay in the heat
of the greenhouse when dormant? I would assume yes they can.

7. I also have some
Dracontiums, Pseudodracontiums, Anthuriums, Philodendrons, ferns, Brugmansias,
common ordinary house plants, cacti, and such.

I do realize a lot
of this will be trial and error for specific my site and weather and it would
have been nice to have the greenhouse up earlier than this so I could
experiment a bit. But when the plants come in they will all have to come in due
to outside dropping temperatures.

8. Do you have a
favorite greenhouse book to recommend?

Thanks to you.

MJ Hatfield

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