I have my few that can handle the sun until they're shaded by 1pm (including some smaller Echeverias and Adromischus cristatus). But I really just hope for the best because they're either in bright sun or complete shade in my backyard because I have nowhere else to put them out of reach of our big dogs.

Those that are fully acclimated to the sun - sure I do - they are succulents - that is what they are born to. The only exception is plants that were not ´born´ here - that have come from nurseries in cooler climes - I give them a month or so to adjust.

Well, yes - under 30% shade cloth during our very hot (some days 100-110+ deg F) southern Arizona summers.

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I live in Georgia and my succulents seem to do fine in full sun. I think that they struggle more with drying out in the heat.

I usually keep those in a place that gets bright light and only a little direct sun during the day. But I do have a few in full sun now, but it's not the blasting heat of summer yet. One thing that can help is put some object in front of the small pot to shade the pot only so roots don't get too hot.

We have extreme, dry heat. I put shade cloth for those acclimating to the full sun and for those that don't like as much full all day scorching heat, like some Kalanchoes, Gasteria, Haworthia and young plants. Babies I have inside near the glass door. All the rest go up in the full sun all day. More perlite in the mix for ones that don't have those big fat chunky leaves.

Mine stay outside in the sun all year long. Winters are dry and cooler. Summers are quite wet and hot, but rarely do we get to 100, just the high 90s. ( ha - just ) Sometimes they need to come in out of the rain, but generally using gritty mix helps prevent problems.

I do have a few plants that do not like full sun. A couple Haws, my Aeonium and for some reason a couple of my jades. I think these plants really hate the wetmess more than the sun. But pots of all sizes stay out there.

Crenda, my God, you could start your own greenhouse with all those little cuttings! Very nice.

Thanks to everyone else, It is interesting to see just how much sun or how hot many expose their small potted plants to. I never thought many small pots could take the sun that hot. I can not even imagine a 4 inch clay pot with anything in it, even a cactus sitting in their HOT sun all day long without shelter at all. At least many of mine can not.

For instance, I have a few on the top of my hot black flat roof, and the one cactus that opened flower, well that flower only lasted a day, not enough time for me to even take a pic, where as, the same exact one in part sun, flowered and here it is 3 days later still with flower.

It seems my Jades, if left in the real hot sun will grow at a much slower rate come the summer, like let's say when temps rise into the mid 80's while the ones in part sun grow rather rapidly all summer.

And then, the variegated cactus/jades that I have, the white parts will actually get burnt tips .

Others, by the time I get home, I have to water or they'd croak by the next day.

How anyone leaves their small potted plants in the sun hotter than mines is baffling!

I always though many southerners especially would not expose them to hot sun all day since they are better able to handle that kind of heat in the ground.

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I do not know what your set-up is like on the roof, maybe it is extremely hot there (a microclimate).

Temps here reach high 80-ties, and most of my jades are in full sun from sunrise 'till sundown. They grow best in that location, and get nice color.

Rest of my succulents get min 8+ hrs of sunshine - depends which shelve they are on. Very few are kept in spots that gets direct sunlight until about noon only; those are mostly haworthias.

Rina, you are right, it does get very hot up there! Beautiful colors by the way. That is why I will pull them down in a month before summer heat comes. Most of mine do well in full sun on tables though but I was always wondering if the ones that live much further south than us, as when the sun is over a 10 on the index scale fair with theirs . I have friends that literally find it too hot to keep anything in sun that hot in Arizona One of my friends said his Ephinopsis roasted in just one day on his lawn in a pot. The intensity of the sun up here is much different than in places south of let's say Virginia. It takes only 15 m minutes for me to get a sunburn down there and ten in Arizona verses over an hour up here in good ole Massachusetts, that is if I get any sun at all.

I wonder if your friend put his plants in very dappled but bright light for a week or 2, and gradually less and less dappled. Then where it gets half an hour early morning or late afternoon direct sunlight and increase about half hour each time. Or something like that.

He could try it on those that naturally live in those conditions and could put something to shade just the pot so the roots don't bake.

Just a thought :-;

Good point Helen. I myself have slowly switched from echeveria and aeoniums to sempervivum and hardy sedums. I cannot be moving my plants around when there is inclement weather. I just came back from surgery myself and with the sun baking everything in my yard to a crisp, the game switches gear to natural selection mode - survival of the fittest.

I’m also beginning to explore other plants that already thrive well in my area: heucheras and daylilies. Exciting times.

It sure is survival of the fittest lol. Sedum are great I reckon. Such a variety of types and colours too Like you said they're pretty tough and they seem do ok even with "wet feet".

Yes they are quite hardy, Helen. They are not very particular with watering. They’re not the primadonnas like the rest of my succulents. They take so much abuse and still end up looking pretty (unlike my scorched and discolored Echeveria). I have a dragon’s blood that I regularly assault with a weed whacker to quickly make cuttings and promote more plants. They come back with a vengeance each time. LOL.