Here in NJ (latitude about 40 deg N), I keep them indoors till the end of May.
Then, when night time temps are high enough (> 55F = 13C), they go outside under shade cloth for about 8 days.
Then I remove the shade cloth = full sun, but I let a sprinkler run 15-20 min every 6 hours (9 AM, 3 PM, 9 PM & 3 AM). With this regimen, I get minimal sunburn, but optimum growth & blooming.
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Kim (Fair Orchids)
Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
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