Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Grow Light Source ???, 1 by 8ftbed

8ftbed wrote:
Jeanette this is an unfinished basement. Central air is down there and there's a register on the duct work but I usually keep that closed. I haven't taken a temp but I'd say it stays in the mid-low 60's year round and a little warmer under the lights when they're on. Once I get something sprouted, they grow fine down there with the light. BUT it's cool enough that I've cultivated tons of moss and gray fungus. Underneath the main table in plastic trashcans/bins are cannas and dahlias. Even sitting on the cold pavement in what I think is total dark... there'll be foliage all mashed up against the lids when I open them. I haven't taken my first peek yet this winter.

Well I smell like bleach from cleaning pots. Shirley, this may be the lone survivor from your seeds and he's looking pretty good now. He was from the unknown cross batch.
(the dates are from Birch trees started last winter. planted 12-26, sprouted 1-18)