- Cinquefoil
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Is it bad to frequently move plants indoors to outdoors?
I have an indoor parlor plant that's not getting enough sun, so I was wondering how it'd cope if I moved it outside either occasionally or on most weekdays.
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Houseplants are moved out for the summer with huge success, especially in places like the Pacific Northwest, where our winter days are so short. It gives our plants a chance to really grow and be a little tropical, but they are acclimated. People spend a week getting the plants use to the sun and the outdoors, but taking them out for a short time and increasing till they are out all day. They stay until the weather is too cold again. To move a plant to a new spot daily, would be very hard on it. If you had a plant in bloom, you would loose the blooms doing this. It's just going to make your plants fussy and confused.