It's also shocking how many "hot weather" plants suffer when it gets...hot. Well, less shocking than infuriating. - Dave, growing in sunny windows in Zone 6b/7a On Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 1:39 PM Shmuel Silinsky via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > I find that white pots are translucent enough to grow algae on the inside > of the pots. > Two things I have done to keep pot temperature down is to put a physical > barrier up - a strip of wood or a row of bricks. The other is to grow a > succulent that hands over and shields the pot from the sun. > BTW there are cheap thermometers with a dial readout on a stick that I got > from Amazon. I'm sure they are not totally accurate but gives an idea of > what's going on down there. Shocking how hot it can get. > Shmuel > Jerusalem Israel > Zone 9b > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…