Interesting question, growing herbs inside. As you noted, the grapefruit did well in summer but remained in stasis in winter. If you want to raise herbs in door year round, you can do it, the issue is one of proper light. As we all know, florists force blooms on poinsettias and other plants for certain seasons. They do this by fooling the plant into thinking it's the real time to bloom, grow, whatever through the process of putting them into dark places, and then lots of light. If you use a grow light, you can give the plants plenty of light so they can successfully grow in the fall and winter. If you do that to your grapefruit tree on a regular basis, you can force growth in the winter for it too. Freowyn
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Out of curiousity does anyone know if that would work for other plants besides pointsettas? Putting them in a dim dry spot (because damp would cause all kind of fungus growths and kill the plant) for a portion of the year and then bringing them into regular light? If the plants have been adapted to dim lighting would winter light suffice, or would it stunt the growth of the plant? It works for pointsettas, but is that partially because of the plant's design; that they actually require less light? If anyone has any kids who need science fair topics, suggest an experiment on these lines so you can then post us the answers! :)
elisa
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