I have a bunch of first year plants in 1-7 gallon pots. Many have not done great in the GA heat....to the tune of just a few leaves, stunted growth, and recently some have been dropping leaves. Loooots of wilting in the sun, and the pots get really really hot. I have 2 or 3 plants with just 1 leaf left! I made the executive decision this morning to move all of them to nearly full shade (2-3 hours of filtered sun, shade the rest of the day) until the temps drop back into the mid 80s (late August if I'm lucky? lol).
That leaves me with some short term and long term questions though:
1) Is that a good move? Think they'll recover? I've got my late blooming cuttings in the same spot, and they're growing, albeit slowly.
2) What should I do with wimpy figlets come winter? Store indoors? Or would an outside shed still work? Alternatively, we have a moderately sunny room in the house if I wanted to keep them going through witner...dunno if the S.O. would approve though...haha
3) If they put out a bunch of growth (here's to hoping) in the spring, is it possible for them to have enough growth to shade their own pots? Is that a thing?
Thanks for the insight.
That leaves me with some short term and long term questions though:
1) Is that a good move? Think they'll recover? I've got my late blooming cuttings in the same spot, and they're growing, albeit slowly.
2) What should I do with wimpy figlets come winter? Store indoors? Or would an outside shed still work? Alternatively, we have a moderately sunny room in the house if I wanted to keep them going through witner...dunno if the S.O. would approve though...haha
3) If they put out a bunch of growth (here's to hoping) in the spring, is it possible for them to have enough growth to shade their own pots? Is that a thing?
Thanks for the insight.
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