I think/hope I am only a couple of weeks away from moving my tropical plants out. I still need my oaks to leaf out. They are loaded with buds and leaflets, but there's no canopy for shade yet. Experience tells me that the staghorns/plumeria/fiddle leaf ficus will go out first, since they are hardier. The plumeria are all potted up and will transition from my porch, getting some early morning sun, into my "seedling" GH with some shade-cloth, and then into full sun. Next will be approximately 175 bromeliads. Bringing up the rear will be several hundred orchids. I will wait until the nights get no cooler than 50 F for those.
I don't know too much about phal. since I only have a few dozen of them and I only grow some because people like to purchase blooming orchids, and in late winter/early spring, that's all I have that blooms. To me they are very easy to grow, bloom at an early age, and the blooms last weeks if not months. I have already spoken of the problems buying them in big-box stores, so won't waste anyone's time in the re-telling.
I think we here in NE Mississippi are finally done with winter.
The long-range forecast (10 day)shows one more morning in the upper 30's and several mornings in the 50's. Thus my moving-out plans.
