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Can Fuchsia grow in tropical climate?

yeopaul
19 years ago

Hi everyone,

I fall in love with fuchsia when i visited Cameron highland of Malaysia. Cameron highland has a cool climate, therefore you can have different varieties of temperate plants there.

I just like to know is it possible to plant fuchsia in tropical climate where the temperature is always above 30 degree celsius?

thanks.

Comments (16)

  • fuchsiabonsailady
    19 years ago

    Hi Sunshine,
    30c/86f is rather hot for fuchsias, they prefer 18/20c - 64/68f, after saying that some varieties will tolerate 25c/77f, do you have humidity as well? - Kath:)

  • yeopaul
    Original Author
    19 years ago

    yes, we have a very himid climate too. does it affect fuchsias?

  • socal23
    19 years ago

    yeopaul, there is no way you are going to be able to grow any variety of fuschia at less than 3000 feet elevation at 5o north latitude. The problem isn't so much your daytime highs but your very warm night temperatures and the high humidity (evaporative cooling is inefficient with high humidity-think about sweating). If you had a very cool place to bring it into at night (less than 18oc), you might get one to survive but it would never thrive.

    Ryan

  • yeopaul
    Original Author
    19 years ago

    Thanks Ryan. It is a sad thing. i got a few of them planting in different conditions, it doesn't look good..just like what you said, it might survive but it would never thrive, i am going to believe that but will probably give it a few more tries.

    thanks for the advise.

  • socal23
    19 years ago

    If you've managed to keep them alive outside I'm impressed, how long have you been growing them?

    Ryan

  • DgreenR
    19 years ago

    You could try asking some local gardeners or a nursery if they have ever had any luck with any certain species of fuschia or a plant similiar to fuschia. Your best bet for growing them is probably in a shady area. Maybe you could grow them somewhere in your house where it is possibly cooler?

  • Heavenrse
    19 years ago

    Hiya all! We just bought a bunch of Fucsias at a local nursery here in Central Florida. We were told they were grown locally. :)

    It is rare down here though. We've always thought they were annuals and died, and I just learned that they "sleep" for the winter...

    I need to read up on these beautiful flowers!

    Pic attached of our find :)

  • Coralred
    14 years ago

    I went to Cameron highlands and bought back a red/purple Fuchsia too. The mother plant didn't make it but a cutting did. It's kind of slow growing under our 30C heat but I managed to propagate another cutting from the cutting I made earlier. At night it enjoy the air conditioning at around 24-25C. I hope it will flower one day for me.

    I have seen another person who grew it in the office aircon environment and it bloomed gorgeously.

  • alzubide
    14 years ago

    I live in a Mediterranean climate, the temperature during the day goes up to the middle of 30Âs and down to 20Âs during the night time, I bought three fuchsia in winter they were very gorgeous, two of them almost vanished and one of them still flowering, I keep them in the shade away from the sun, I was advised to cut back the other two to ground level hoping they will come back again when start to cool during the month of October

  • momiji79
    14 years ago

    I live in Thailand and fuchsias can grow very well in the highlands of northern Thailand. They can be found on sale in northern Thailand (in the lowlands) but I am not sure how well they do there. Anyhow, I bought one a few days ago and leave it in a shady place during the daytime outdoors and bring it into the air conditioned room at night. Lets see how well it does.

    Current climate in Bangkok : 27C -37C.

  • Coralred
    13 years ago

    Hi momiji79,

    Do feedback on how your fuchsia is doing. Mine is thin looking but still flowering.

  • ifraser25
    13 years ago

    Fuchsias do grow in tropical climates but only at altitude. Our local fuchsia (Fuchsia regia) is not found below 1200m altitude (3700 feet). I think this is about the height of the Cameron highlands also. I can grow it at lower altitudes (800 m) if it is sited with great care ie. in almost full shade. Another thing is don't be tempted, as you might be with Fuchsia, to keep it very well watered. They will only grow in the summer half and winter watering usually kills them or makes them leggy, at any rate very poor flowering. Keep them very dry at this time of year. A lot of fuschias do not thrive here.

  • rain1950
    12 years ago

    Perhaps this listing will help. From the PNW Fucshia Society

    Here is a link that might be useful: Heat tolerant Fucshias

  • jackieras2
    12 years ago

    You know I really get angry at my local nurseries. I lived for six years in Oregon and Northern CA and grew many Fuchsia. When I returned home to Houston, you all know how hot and humid the Gulf Coast area is, I knew I could no longer have them here. Yet, the darn local nurseries insist on selling them at a very high price. To me it is just a rip off of the local people who see the beautiful flowers and think they can grow them here. Shame, shame, shame on the greedy nursery people. End of rant,,,

  • shanddavies
    6 years ago

    jackieras rant all you like they deserve it. However having said that they do make excellent annuals in the dry cool season in the subtropics or even parts of the tropics when night temps drop a bit and day time feels like an English summer. You need to water quite a bit, but feeding and growing is easy for four months. Of course no one sells them at the right time of year. Jonlaug33 sounds promising. I couldn't help myself I bought one yesterday. I just love that combo purple and red.........I've planted it in the shade, who knows its rather delightful even if it last three days, it was cheap. They aren't fantastic indoors as its too dry but if you have a chilled green house with a misting system the sky is the limit, but who does. I know someone who grew clematis, hydrangeas, rhododendrons in a cool house in the lowlands of Borneo, they also had strawberries. All was going wonderfully until they had a week long power outage. Oooops all tuned to mush, air circulation ceased, heat and humidity rocketed, the green house turned into a steam oven. There is a lovely cool house at the Singapore orchid garden, part of the Botanical gardens, they grow highland orchids, shrubs, many altitude epiphytes, lovely things. Its a fine place to go to linger and refresh in the tropical onslaught outside. Yeopaul, no, sadly not without a lot of expense and effort and well when you can put a stunning orchid in a tree and sit back and let it do its thing.......

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