You're right about plants down south having different needs than further north. It's been almost twenty years since I left Alabama, but thinking back, I definitely remember that if the plant tag said "full sun" the growers were thinking of, like, Ohio full sun and not 'Bama full sun. :P~ I learned to treat "full sun" as "partial to full shade" and if said it it was a shade plant to start...probably best to just keep the damn thing in a sunny window indoors and only put it outside (if at all) in the early hours before it got too hot out, haha
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Exactly. I received the petunia in mid-July, which is WAY too hot for most cultivated plants down here in Florida. Humidity in the upper 90s or sometimes even over 100% (yep that's possible, you may have even experienced that in Alabama), temperatures in the mid and upper 90s, and a heat index from 100-112 every single day this summer is just too damn much for most ornamentals.
So I bought it a grow light based on recommendations from a petunia-specific group on facebook. Then posted a photo of the plant with said light, and got chewed out for not buying a strong enough light. A bunch of grow light snobs came and were like, "You need at LEAST xxx ppfd, and if you're not spending $80 at least it's a waste of time," etc etc. And I'm over here like....YOU PEOPLE are the ones who told me to get this specific grow light.....Then I posted a picture of my healthy and green plant, and several people told me that I "should" acclimate it outdoors. I kind of looked at the weather and the heat index was below 100 for the whole week, so even
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So I bought it a grow light based on recommendations from a petunia-specific group on facebook.
Then posted a photo of the plant with said light, and got chewed out for not buying a strong enough light. A bunch of grow light snobs came and were like, "You need at LEAST xxx ppfd, and if you're not spending $80 at least it's a waste of time," etc etc. And I'm over here like....YOU PEOPLE are the ones who told me to get this specific grow light.....Then I posted a picture of my healthy and green plant, and several people told me that I "should" acclimate it outdoors. I kind of looked at the weather and the heat index was below 100 for the whole week, so even ( ... )
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