are plants able to grow in presence of fluorescent light instead of sunlight?

Answer 1

My wife grows her "baby" plants in the presence of Florescent Light, including ones she snips in the fall and over winters. It is the only light these plants get since she keeps them in the furnace room.

In the last year she bought a special fluorescent growing light. Ya always wonder if what makes it special is a different package and a heftier price. The light from the two types, which are side by side in the fixture looks exactly alike to me.

She uses a plain $10 shop light with two fluorescent bulbs in it and it is mounted so it is about 6" from the plants.

Answer 2

yes, they will work fine as grow lights for bedding plants. i start my seedlings in feb. and grow them under these lights til i plant them out in may. i use ordinary fluorescent tubes (not the expensive gro-lite tubes which i did use once and noticed no difference). dont know how well plants would do permanently under these lights, but some people in windowless offices seem to be able to grow decent plants with just fluorescent fixtures. a little natural sunlight would probably help a lot.

Answer 3

Yes, absolutely. The lights you can buy especially for indoor plants provide full spectrum lighting, mimicking natural light. These are more expensive, but in a two tube fixture, you can subsitute one cool light tube and one warm light tube. This is cheaper than the special lights and is just about as good.

Answer 4

They do particularly nicely actual. If the fluorescent has a blue tint this is much extra useful. in fact, there are particular "enhance lighting fixtures" that are blue mild bulbs marketed exceedingly for that.

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

Yes,they can.