Tropicals do well in my growing conditions if they have sufficient water. It's odd, really, how well they do. I think the key is that tropicals handle consistent warm nighttime temperatures and a lot of temperate plants do not. Temperate growers like warm/hot days w/cool nights and here they get warm/hot days w/warm nights. I call them 3/4 growers. They do well fall through spring, but die in summer. Lots of plants that theoretically should do well here don't survive our summers. Tropicals don't mind those warm nights. They would be great plants to grow if they weren't so sensitive to the cold. I guess they would be reverse 3/4 growers - spring through fall. They are, to an extent, water hogs. I catch water and recycle what drains out of containers to a large degree in order to keep what I use affordable.
