Too cold for orchids?

[butterfly_muse]

Originally Posted by katrina

Is it 48 in your house? Probably not. I have the windows open too and it's only 43 outside right now. The room itself was 62 before the lights came on. The lights have been on for about an hour now and it's already 68 in there...even w/a couple of windows open.

With all of that said, I have 2 windows where I have some warm/hot growers hanging and I do close those windows. If I only had intermediate growers in this mount area then I'd leave the windows open until it's even colder outside but w/those warm/hot growers...I don't want any 'too cool' breezes blowing directly on them all night long.

That's the long way of saying...as long as you don't have any icy wind blowing directly on the orchids all night long then they will be fine. As a matter of fact, it's better for the orchids to have a day to night differential in temps vs a constant temp 24/7. Some orchids need that day to night differential in order to bloom.

No, it wasn't 48 in my actual house - but the orchids sit in the window sill right next to the open window, so..I figured that they were probably experiencing the 48 degree outside temps. =\

But it's good to know that it won't actually hurt them. I went back to sleep and then had a bad dream that all of their leaves fell off :O!! I was worried about them, lol.