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Biggest problem for indoor plants is lack of light. Get a cheap photometer and check. Eyes are terrible at judging light intensity.. if the plant never gets light sufficient for basic metabolism, it will die sooner or later. Bare minimum full shade is like 10000 lux.. indoor lighting often doesn't get above 1000.


And the good news is 4 foot LED tube lights are cheap, inexpensive to run and easy to mount with just two-sided tape. It’s a simple DIY project to mount LED tubes on the underside of a table and put that table on top of another table…and you can grow whatever you like. Plants won’t just survive but actually thrive and flower. Doesn’t look half-bad either.




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