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Originally Posted by naoki
Camille, when I was in Lyon 2 years ago, it was hell hot. Well, I guess that it was more of cultural differences; warmer soda, no ice in water at the restaurants, higher temp set for the AC (or no AC) etc. But I guess people in the US waste more energy, and we are wimpier. But I enjoyed great food there!
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Indeed, that's the normal summer weather. Hardly any one has AC in their homes unlike in the US, and though we are used to it, oh how we suffer! On very hot days it would still be 100F in our apartment at midnight, and opening windows would do nothing, not a breeze to be felt. And we don't even use fans. We don't have 'cooling centers' like they're been during during the recent heat wave in the US. We suck it up. And you're right, no ice. You can't even buy bags of in the supermarket like you can in the US.
I'm mostly living in the Netherlands now, and there is no summer this year, again (and it's only marginally better in france). We get a week of 'summer' per month it seems and the rest is rain or clouds! That's why I'm convinced that my Phal pallens responded to the Epsom salts, and not the light. I think that if it had been light it would have responded much sooner, as all the other Phals started their growth in early June, which was a bit sunnier. I watered twice with Epsom salts in the space of a week, within 10 days of second watering the leaves lost their yellowness and the crazy growing started.
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