Light in winter

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TerdalFarm
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Light in winter

Post by TerdalFarm » Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:21 am

Do you supplement? I don't, I just try to place potted plants in for the winter near windows. This clump (dominated by foxtail and traveler's palms) is by a sliding glass door, albeit facing ENE so no direct sun in winter. Seem to be OK, but no growth.
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Post by TimMAz6 » Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:01 am

my plants hibernate in the unheated garage which is typically in the mid to upper 40's unless there is a massive cold blast when it might drop close to freezing......not much light in there............plants seem OK as long as temps remain below 50F.
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Post by sashaeffer » Sun Jan 13, 2013 3:29 pm

I have a lot of my cold hardier palms also in a unheated, but well insulated garage and have two floor lights with a CFL bulb in each that is equivalent to 200 watts of light on a 14hr timer.

I have a spare bedroom that I keep other plants/palms/seedlings in that has a room heater to keep at 72deg and ceiling light bulbs(3) are daylight spectrum type bulbs.

All other palms are as close to windows as possible(mostly east/west facing) depending on type of palm and it's light requirements.

On a heat pump, so warm air isn't dry like regular furnace. Easy to keep house humidity at around 50%.
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Post by lucky1 » Sun Jan 13, 2013 3:51 pm

Interesting topic, Erik.

No additional lighting, except in the basement where I start palm seedlings.
Have one of those little red/blue light thingies over seedlings that have popped.

Your housesitter did a fine job; they look good.

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