I moved/linked your initial post over to our Garden Thread for the week, and also pinged you over there.
I’m in the same boat with TOO MUCH RAIN! However - this time last year was already in the 80’s with BRUTAL humidity levels, so I’ll take cooler and rainy over THAT!
That said, today is cool, rainy and 60 degrees - tops! About 15 degrees BELOW normal.
Earth IS going into a ‘Solar Minimum’ so that means cooler temps for a lot of us now through 2025. (Trump’s Fault, LOL!)
“But mainly though it’s the houseplants that freaked me out by dying. They’re not in the field soil — they’re just in their regular pots they’ve always been in.”
A few thoughts on the houseplant situation:
Is there good drainage in each pot? If the houseplants are saturated, that’s suffocating the roots. Not a good thing.
Are your night time temps falling below 50 degrees? Houseplants are generally tropical, and they don’t like that at all! Neither do my tomatoes this season - who are still green, but freaking out and setting fruit too soon and pretty much just SITTING THERE praying for SUNSHINE!
When you moved your houseplants outdoors, did you put them into bright, direct sun? Doesn’t sound like you’ve had much sun if it’s raining so much, but they can get ‘sunburn’ just like we can.
Those are my best guesses. The rest is up to God, LOL!
Earth IS going into a ‘Solar Minimum’ so that means cooler temps for a lot of us now through 2525. This period is predicted to be 500 years not 25.
THANK YOU!!! :-)))
> A few thoughts on the houseplant situation: Is there good drainage in each pot? If the houseplants are saturated, that’s suffocating the roots. Not a good thing. Are your night time temps falling below 50 degrees? Houseplants are generally tropical, and they don’t like that at all! Neither do my tomatoes this season - who are still green, but freaking out and setting fruit too soon and pretty much just SITTING THERE praying for SUNSHINE! When you moved your houseplants outdoors, did you put them into bright, direct sun? Doesn’t sound like you’ve had much sun if it’s raining so much, but they can get ‘sunburn’ just like we can. Those are my best guesses. The rest is up to God, LOL!
I think the houseplant pot drain was okay, but you mention temperature -- on clearer nights it has fallen to upper-40's. Could have been a factor. Hmmm.
So far direct sun hasn't been much of a problem, since we only get sun one day a week, if that. But hopefully we'll get more of that as we get into July...