About house plants: would be ok to leave them outside for 5wks during summer while travelling?

...Or should I find someone to look after them? I'm thinking of my Christmas Cactus and a small crassula.

About house plants: would be ok to leave them outside for 5wks during summer while travelling?
my mother always left her house plants outside in the summer . wow did they grow and looked very healthy
Reply:Crassula and Christmas Cactus are actually plants that enjoy heat and summer temperatures out of doors. They grow wild in Italy!


They require relatively little watering and the odd shower will be quite sufficient to keep them healthy. I would not leave them in the bath as they might rot, whilst they will thrive out of doors. Mine are out all summer. The only thing they hate is frost.
Reply:My house plants spend the whole summer outside it really perks them up .


The only thing that would worry me is if it doesn't rain at all they could die ( but then if your in the UK i can guarantee it will rain ) other wise cant you get a neighbour to water them over the wall
Reply:It would be much safer to take them with you.
Reply:id leave them in the bath wheres theres some light from the window- wet a towel so its soaking and the plant will drink when it needs to
Reply:High! oosoart here, both your plants are classed as succulents,meaning that have fleshy leaves and store a lot of water for dry times, part of the cactus family.


Leave them in a lightly shaded spot,not full sun and if you can sit them on a tray of some kind with an old towel folded on the base to sit your pots on next to the tray put a bucket of water and the get some old sheeting or towelling long enough to reach from the bottom of the bucket and over the side down into the tray,the water should then soak up sheeting and down onto the towel in bottom of the tray just giving enough ,not too much to your plants.


Make sure the towel in the tray is wet to start with and the sheeting is wetted and twisted,should be fine.


Hope you understand all of this. Good luck, oosoart.
Reply:It would depend on the plant, and your weather in the summer for 5 wks. Some houseplants could not take the sun for that long, You would also be hoping that mother nature watered your plants, could your plants handle it if there was no rain for the entire 5 wks you were gone?or how about 5 wks of to much rain? the other problem that presents itself is that you will be gone for 5wks. If you have a plant sitter come into your house or apt to check on your plants they can bring in your mail pick up your newspapers,etc. Make the place look less deserted,and maybe less attractive to a burglar
Reply:If you get wild rabbits in your garden, it will take them 5 minutes, never mind 5 weeks to demolish your plants!
Reply:Some people recommend leaving house plants outside in the summer as it does them good. I am going to try it this year.
Reply:no, get some one to look after them,