All of the "winter rest" 'chids I have get their food and water taken away the first week of November. They continue to get high light and just an occasional "barely-there" misting until the first week of March when they are eased back into their usual feeding/watering habits.
The misting is not directly on them...it's more of a carryover from the plants around them and I don't take my finger off the trigger while passing to the next section.
I have all mine outside. What do you do about rain? Should I put them under a shelter to keep them dry?
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This is a really old thread and cb977 doesn't visit the board anymore. I can't be sure where she kept her dens but I know she had a covered lanai so rain may not have been a problem.