Move it or leave it?
The light debate. I know this is a topic that has a lot of different opinions, but here goes. I have this one phal that seems to be more sensitive to light than the others. We have been having a stretch of really sunny weather in the Highlands (I know, RIGHT?!) so my chids have been getting longer exposure in the SW corner of my conservatory than usual. I use a south and SW exposure because the conservatory is very greenouse-lke in summer, and in Scotland, you don't get high light conditions like, EVER (except this week). They get the more direct mid to late day sun in their current location.
So this one little rescue phal has the telltale purple tinge, which I don't so much mind (many of my plants do and are thriving), but it seems a bit more sensitive in that it is a bit yellowing (hard to see in photo). It wasn't the most healthy-looking plant to begin with (kind of thin and weak looking), but it has been plugging along, and I had been kind of waiting for it to drop the rest of its blooms before I did anything too radical. It is starting to make a new root though (even while in bloom), so I'm sort of inclined to leave it where it is, occasional bursts of direct later-day sun and all.
We have clouds again today anyway...is it okay to let them bask in the occasional burst of hot and sunny weather, even if it is intense?
Sorry, the attachments seem to always attach themselves upside down and sideways, even when they look upright on my computer. Must be because i used my iPhone.
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