If the room is dark, little-used, and temporary, consider a nice artificial plant. Check out places like Michael's, Hobby Lobby, or online like Wayfair.com. Surely, it would be less maintenance?

I agree on the artifical plant. It would provide the "look" without the frustation of maintenance and I honestly don't think any plant will look good in such dim lighting conditions for long.

Planto

bob131313 said:... Also if they do get sun which will grow faster and taller? ...

My last post was in response to that question.

Sorry I've been sorta lerking in the shadows.



A sunleaves is a high output strip light. I use one for my bird of paradise and my other plants its about 4 foot by 2 foot wide. .

Yeah I love mine works like a charm.



About the poster I think he is long gone by this time, hopefully he wont go out and get plants to die for that space.

That Sunleaves looks a lot like the 6-bulb, T5H fixtures I use.

I think it could be the same thing or maybe just a different model, i guess.

Where my T5H fixtures use individual bulbs, yours use tandem bulbs, two ties together at one socket. I think that's what you have. Your fixture with only a pair or bulbs is far more expensive than my 6-bulb fixtures and mine has more lumens, a lot more.

I have 4 bulbs on my T5 light, they alernate. one red, one blue, one red, and one blue. Not sure the amount of lumens they put out but i can easily read and see well in nigttime wih just the light on.

Are they individual bulbs or tandem bulbs, paired in two's? That's what I saw when I went to the Sunleaves site. I can't remember whether they listed the K numbers or the lumen numbers though. Perhaps you have another fixture I didn't see. One thing's for sure. Our T5 fixtures, and I don't know whether your bulbs are HO or not, put out a heck of a lot of lumens compared to T8 and T12 bulbs.