BIG problem

I have been putting my plant outside for the past 2 weeks and today when I brought her in I checked the soil temp, it was at 120 degrees! She isn't showing nay signs of stress yet because it's only been a few hours at that temp, and today has been the hottest of all summer. btw I'm in TX. Will she survive?

a few ideas to proceeed with....

Wrap the pot in fiberglass insulation/duct tape...covering that with some white plastic....and then try to sheild the dirt from direct sun....

sit the pot on grass or in the weeds...not on a patio/on concrete or anyhting else that will absorb heat.

cross your fingers

good luck

bt dt

Put up just about anything to keep shade on the pots (not the plant just the pots).

Well unfortunately I can't put them anywhere but on a tin roof for privacy. and I can't cover the dirt because the plant is on LST and it's so low that covering the dirt means covering the pot.

Put something under pot to limit the ambient heat coming from the tin.
Like a rubber mat (1/8"-1/4" thick).
Or some plywood.
Also the bigger the pot the better off you will be.

I'll try using a block of wood since the the pot is a 1 gallon, and the roots take up about a third of that space since I only transplanted last week.

That should help a good deal.
I would feed and water right before night fall or dark cycle intead of during the day.

Can you put it on a south facing wall?

I always water right before the dark cycle, how would facing south help heat?

Well now I have more problems, but this could be caused by the heat on the roots. It also looks alot like a nuitrient burn but I've only used bone abd blood meal mixed into the soil.




I keep pulling one of these off about every day now.