Thanks Peter  Yes, good point about the better halfs inclusion in such experiments. mine hates to see things wither away and so is quite happy that an 8ft sprawling tree of a tomato plant is in that room. This year has seen just 1 room heater used in there, previous years have seen all sorts of blankets, window coverings and heating and such. It's been incredibly mild though - 50's and 60's Fahrenheit mostly....probably just as warm in Centigrade. All is quite silly, when thinking that the LED plants in the other room could have been kept in that room too ! but, we didn't know about the mild winter. The big tree (on the left of the LED's pic on the last page) has gone to a friend of my wife's, who has a heated greenhouse, so that's a great forwarding of that one. The apple tree has gone mad under the LED's and needs to be trimmed. I think it could survive outside but maybe when thicker trunked and such ? 1 of the lemon trees has the traits of the 2ft high one, it's now spreading along the underneath of the LED's. All in all, everything is better than the lanky traits of last year, with new leaves appearing all over plants. Interestingly, the Harbor Freight lights were set to red, but when changed to white the new growth appeared immediately and strongly..was surprised about that. Those in the red bucket were the ones that survived outside as basically sticks, with a leaf or 2 well into winter. Finally, no issues at all with powering. The 2 cellphone 5V 500mA chargers are cool to the touch all the time. Maybe all would run with the original 700mA on its own, but that is now in use charging lipo batteries.
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