{"id":834,"date":"2007-10-19T01:12:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T05:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/10\/19\/time-to-bring-the-tropical-plants-indoors\/"},"modified":"2013-10-11T19:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T23:44:40","slug":"time-to-bring-the-tropical-plants-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/10\/19\/time-to-bring-the-tropical-plants-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to bring the tropical plants indoors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>It&#8217;s cooled down here in Toronto quite a bit over the last week.  In fact, some night&#8217;s have started to get close to freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>So, I think I&#8217;m going to bring all my tropical plants indoors again.  I did put all the tropicals like the passionflower vines, the jasmine, ornamental peppers and so on inside the enclosed back porch a couple of weeks ago.  We even put two tomato plants that had been growing in large pots inside the porch too.<\/p>\n<p>The plants have all done well in there and the tomatoes have really taken off and have produced a number of green tomatoes.  Most are large enough to begin ripening and as far as I&#8217;m concerned that&#8217;s just in time as the porch will be too cool soon for the tomatoes to survive.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>I think that I&#8217;ll bring the tropical plants inside and place them in our sunny spare bedroom upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>I do this every year, but I&#8217;ve found that not all of the plants make it through the winter. We have a humidifier that we use upstairs in the winter time, but I think that the plants find the air too dry even with the extra humidity we try to put in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we&#8217;ll get another humidifier or vaporizer to put right in the room with the plants.  That will certainly increase the total humidity upstairs!<\/p>\n<p>They have to combat dry winter furnace heated air and the occasional white fly or other pesty bug attack.  I do give the plants a spray with a mild soapy water solution occasionally.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>Anyone have any other tips for me as to how I can make sure my passion flower vines and other tropicals make it through the winter inside the house?<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<br\/> <br\/>\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_underpost_300x250 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0957462354\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<br\/>\r\n<br\/>\r\n\r\n<?php if ( is_search() || is_single() || is_page() || is_paged() || is_category() || is_archive() ) { ?>\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\nch_client = \"dragonden\";\r\nch_type = \"mpu\";\r\nch_width = 468;\r\nch_height = 250;\r\nch_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\nch_color_title = \"FF9B00\";\r\nch_color_text = \"333333\";\r\nch_non_contextual = 4;\r\nch_vertical =\"premium\";\r\nch_sid = \"gardengrows_betweenposts\";\r\nvar ch_queries = new Array( );\r\nvar ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));\r\nif ( ch_selected < ch_queries.length ) {\r\nch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];\r\n}\r\n\/\/--><\/script>\r\n<script  src=\"http:\/\/scripts.chitika.net\/eminimalls\/amm.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br\/><\/div>\r\n<?php } ?>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cooled down here in Toronto quite a bit over the last week. In fact, some night&#8217;s have started to get close to freezing temperatures. So, I think I&#8217;m going to bring all my tropical plants indoors again. I did put all the tropicals like the passionflower vines, the jasmine, ornamental peppers and so on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39,47],"tags":[690,693,95,556,101,102,105,742,295,164,180,6029,110,113,3657,1801,204,205,6060,1511,285,121,212],"class_list":{"0":"post-834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-autumn-tasks","7":"category-home-and-lifestyle","8":"category-plant-health","9":"tag-back-porch","10":"tag-enclosed","11":"tag-flower","12":"tag-freezing","13":"tag-grow","14":"tag-growing","15":"tag-house","16":"tag-humid","17":"tag-humidity","18":"tag-jasmine","19":"tag-passion-flower","20":"tag-pests","21":"tag-plant","22":"tag-plants","23":"tag-soapy-water","24":"tag-temperature","25":"tag-tomato","26":"tag-tomatoes","27":"tag-toronto","28":"tag-tropical","29":"tag-vine","30":"tag-water","31":"tag-winter","32":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}