{"id":2923,"date":"2010-05-22T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2011-05-28T20:49:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T04:49:04","slug":"morning-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/22\/morning-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some varieties of orchids need direct morning sun to grow well and bloom. Morning sun is better than afternoon sun because the afternoon sun is usually hotter, and also dries the air more. Dry air can stress orchid plants. They can make better use of the cooler morning sun for <a href=\"http:\/\/grapevine.net.au\/~grunwald\/une\/KLAs\/science\/photosynthesis.html\" target=\"blank\">photosynthesis<\/a>. For the same reason, if it&#8217;s an unusually hot or dry day, it&#8217;s a good idea to shade the orchid from any direct sunlight, and pay extra attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/humidity.html\">maintaining good humidity<\/a>. Common varieties that enjoy morning sun include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">Cattleyas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cymbidium.html\">Cymbidiums<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">Dendrobiums<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/epidendrum.html\">Epidendrums<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/odontoglossum.html\">Odontoglossums<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/oncidium.html\">Oncidiums<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/vanda.html\">Vandas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Move plants into brighter light gradually. To prevent sunburn, slowly introduce plants to morning sun over 2 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some varieties of orchids need direct morning sun to grow well and bloom. Morning sun is better than afternoon sun because the afternoon sun is usually hotter, and also dries the air more. Dry air can stress orchid plants. They can make better use of the cooler morning sun for photosynthesis. For the same reason, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}