Orchids at this point 2 ▲ Yunzi's Blog 1 hour ago · Life · hide · 0 comments This summer has been brutal, amongst others, I grow a fair number of cloud forest orchid species in a grow tent in my garage. This summer got hot in May and stayed hot until about a week ago. Normally in UK summers I can ride out short periods of temperatures above the low 20s (°C of course, I don't use the ridiculous US measurements). By giving the plants high air movement and high humidity. This year however, things started well above 25° in may and reaching well into the 30°s inside the tent on very regular occasions. Combine that with the fact there was little nighttime temperature drop meant a lot of very unhappy plants. I've lost a few of the cloud forest plants, roots have died and taken down the plant and most are looking very unhappy. As things cool down going into winter, I've also had my main grow light fail and needed replacing, on the plus side, it also runs cooler than the old one. The plants remaining, I've started to repot a few now and ensure good new media and pots… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.