Ooops....

9 years ago

Well, I put my succulents outside on the weekend. They are in a temporary small greenhouse, since I live in coastal Nova Scotia and we can still get frost for a few more weeks. My greenhouse is covered in shade cloth for the first few days, and then uncovered. I open it during the day for airflow. This has worked well in the past for me. My greenhouse location does not get direct sun until about 2 pm.
Yesterday morning I checked it before I went to work, and it was about 5 degrees Celsius. Outside temperature was 2 degrees C ( this was about 8 am) and rainy. So i decided to leave it closed and have my SO open it when he got home at around 3:30. It continued to be a cool dreary day... At 6 when I got home, my SO said "It wasn't too cold in your greenhouse when I got here, just 45.9 degrees!!!"

I cannot believe it got that hot that quickly, I am hoping I didn't cook anything. Everything looks okay so far...I have mostly mesembs, echeverias, various Crassulas, small Aloes and miscellaneous other small suxx... Forgot to add the humidity was 99%....steamed vegetables anyone?

I have not experience with temps like that, what should I expect? am I likely to see ill effects from this high temp event?
And I am heading out right now to open the GH for the day, cold outside or not ( they are quite dry)

Cheers,
Breton

Comments (6)

breton2
Original Author
9 years ago
Meant to add I do not know offhand what these temps correspond to in Fahrenheit for the Americans reading this! Perhaps Jeff can translate!!!
Spider1943
9 years ago
The temperature conversion is 45.9 C = 114.62 F
9/5 plus 32

This post was edited by Spider1943 on Wed, May 14, 14 at 12:11
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cactusmcharris, interior BC Z4/5
9 years ago
B,

Double the Celsius and add 30 and it's around that.

Wow, let's hope you didn't boil them!
breton2
Original Author
9 years ago
I'm certainly hoping I didn't! So far all i have seen is a bit of scorch on an Echeveria 'Lilacina" that was pretty ratty looking anyway.

And they are calling for frost here tonight! Fortunately everything is good and dry...

Crossing my fingers!
cactusmcharris, interior BC Z4/5
9 years ago
We got snow on May 6th, but I think spring/summer's here to stay - plants are going out this weekend (no greenhouse, only a shaded table).

That Ech I always, always, always (in San Diego, even) found a challenge to grow. BTW, I think it's a species.

This post was edited by cactusmcharris on Tue, May 13, 14 at 23:30
breton2
Original Author
9 years ago
Ha! According to Google, it is an actual species! At least the garden centre got the actual names right, even if they did have Lilacina in quotation marks!
Interesting that you found it hard to grow in San Diego...

The greenhouse is nothing special, a cheap walk-in model from Princess Auto, of all places...But it serves its purpose for me!

Happy growing!

And thanks to Spider 1943 for the temperature conversion!

This post was edited by breton2 on Wed, May 14, 14 at 7:02