Tropicals & Tender Perennials: overwintering the tender ones, 1 by PedricksCorner

PedricksCorner wrote:
I am going to be trying this myself this winter! As before reading in the forums here, I would never have even considered the possibility of growing fuchsias indoors.
But allot of people have, and they have been successful. So I am hoping they will come and leave some advice for us here.
Personally, I am going to use the same conditions that I use for my other indoor blooming plants. Such as dendrobiums, gloxinias, and fibrous cane begonias.
Of these three, the begonia is the one I have to be most careful with, as if it stays too wet, it will rot so fast it isn't funny.
I make certain that all of my indoor blooming plants get at least a couple of hours of direct sun every day. I even have 2 little coffee trees and 2 hoyas in a southern facing window.
Since we are in the northern hemisphere, a southern facing window will get the most sun of any window in your house. During the summmer, this can be too intense for many plants. But during the winter, it can not only mean they survive, but thrive and bloom.
Now, I just have to decide which varieties to try and set up an area by the one remaining southern facing window with no plants yet ;-)
I believe hummer_girl has quite a set up using flourescent lighting in her basement. I am looking forward to seeing photos of it.
And I will do the same, as soon as I get mine set up.
Meanwhile, this window faces east, but it is on the very corner of the southern side of the house, so it actually gets full on sun all the way up until past noon. These are my dendrobiums. They bloom like crazy starting in Febuary.