N. glabrata recovers from high temps

[Ludwig]

This nearly died during 100F+ temps last summer. Here it is, responding to low temps again.

[artificialive]

Ludwig,
seems like ur glabarata is recovering well
What is the temperature exactly u are providing?

[Ludwig]

About 80F daytime, and mid 40s to mid 50s every night. The plant sits in full sun and has a nice breeze most of the day. You can see the opening of the swamp cooler in the photo which provides rapid air movement most of the day.

[rainforestguy]

Ludwig,
Perhaps air conditioning at night could help, but ouch on the electric bill. I have heard of some greenhouses using air conds to chill working on a cycle timer where it turns off for fifteen minutes every six hours, and this supposedly reduces the electric bill. (note: cycle of time may be somewhat off, but this is the general idea).
An orchid grower friend of mine tells me he cools his greenhouse down at night by using some gizmo which makes ice, then turns off and runs a fan to chill his greenhouse and the cycle continues again. His inside temps run about 70 degrees days and 50's at night.

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[Ludwig]

I was running the swamp cooler at night for a while, but a hectic schedule gets in the way of remembering...my thermostat only has one setting and it is set to 80F so when daytime temps rise it kicks on. In order to run a cooling schedule at night I have to manually turn the thermostat down each night. It sounds easy enough but if you walked a week in my shoes you'd wonder how I got anything done!

Thanks for the input, it gets me thinking of a solution. As far as my electric bill, it's like running a light bulb day and night. It uses amazingly little power! My computers use more energy than my swamp cooler (as I discovered recently when benchmarking my utility usage).

[nep369]

I love hearing of new ways of night and day cooling, always opening a new door to something else.