My greenhouse setup during the Colorado winter! The water straight from the tap here gets brutally cold this time of year, which isn’t great for my tropical Nepenthes (they hate root shock from icy water).
So for a few months in winter, I fill the cold tap water into this big tank first to let it warm up a bit inside the greenhouse. I don’t have a water heater; it just warms up from the ambient temperature. Then I use a booster pump to distribute it throughout the whole setup. The Sarracenia don’t mind the cold water as much (they’re tougher North American natives), but this keeps the tropicals happy.
Anyone else dealing with super cold tap water in winter? What’s your workaround?
by jeremiahsplants
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Outdoor Unheated greenhouse sarracenia get ice melt from my rain barrel, if they’re lucky and I remember. Everything else indoors is getting RO from a bucket, so it has time to warm up first.