Tropicals & Tender Perennials: AZ Grown Plumerias II, 1 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Nice pics as always, Davie. My flowers are looking light in color these days too. I love your variegated ones. I have the Thai 'Marble' too. You are right about the leaves burning in the sun. I keep my variegated ones in filtered sun. I had an inflo on one of my variegated ones last winter so I put it in my greenhouse, but it aborted anyway. Oh, well. At least, it branched.

Yes, I do use that Comforthouse Springhouse. I have three of them, and two are up. I'll post some pics of it below. You can put quite a few five-gallons in it. I just went and counted how many are in one of mine, and I counted 36. I have ten- and fifteen-gallon containers in one and a rack of one-gallon containers.

I don't heat the greenhouses at night due to the high cost of electricity. If that weren't an issue, I would have a heater, a fan, and a grow light. When we had record cold last winter, I put an oil-radiant heater in my one for the night. That is when I bought two more of the same kind of greenhouses. As long as the temp stays above freezing, I won't heat it. I have some temperature gauges in them, which show me the air temps on my Atomic Clocks in the house, and it seems like nighttime temps end up matching outside air temps, but I don't have the bottoms sealed well, and it doesn't seem to matter because soil temps are much higher than the air temp. During the day, the air temps in the greenhouses are well into the 90's on a winter day, and the heat and humidity keep everything blooming and happy. I do open mine up daily to air them out but close them up again before it starts to cool off in the late afternoon. I think it would be unnecessary for you to heat them during the day.

Here's a picture of one that I just took for you. The screen is ripped on this one. I think I accidentally stepped on it a couple of times. My extra one is on the right.