grow lights fluorescent
Can you grow fruit trees indoors with no access to windows and zero sunlight, but with fluorescent lights...?
...like a kitchen or bathroom fluorescent light bulb?
What bulbs would you need? Where would I get them?
(This question is being asked by a friend of this user.)
I expect you might be able to grow them if you wasted enough electricity on them, but for fruit trees the difficulty would be pollination - with no insects to cross-pollinate the blossom, no fruit would result.
One 'kitchen or bathroom fluorescent bulb' would not be enough to grow anything. You would need an array of daylight simulation bulbs and these are quite expensive.
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