Why does outdoor plastic tubing crack?
The sun causes the exposed parts of the tubing to become very brittle. This extreme brittleness is what ultimately makes the plastic crack.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Rigging up a temporary or makeshift shade cloth to protect the struggling plant.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m really wanting to get into ferns and monsteras and all that cool shit. But I’m lacking a lottttt of plant & gardening knowledge.”source ↗
“Do I put up this shade cloth you see pictured? Obviously I’m going to do it up better than this but for rn it’s just protecting my poor stump 😭”source ↗
“The exposed parts get very brittle and crack from the sun.”source ↗
Where this came up
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