On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 06:12:03 -0500, Jim and Phyllis Hurley wrote:

Rodney,

You have added another piece of information. I had never heard a number of
hours of light needed. Where did you get the figure? Many of us have tried
holding hyacinth over the winter, only to lose them slowly, even in warmth.
Perhaps longer artificial light would help us. Any other gems of WH
knowledge? Or resources on line?

I thought I got it from this group :-)

If not it would have been in the Practical Fishkeeping magazine in the
UK. Wherever I got the information from also said that you needed very
bright artificial lighting to overwinter it. I suspect the 14 hours is
for the UK and if you are further south and get brighter sunlight they
may need less. I think they also need six hours direct sun a day to
flower (at least at our latitude) and we don't get that here due to a
30 foot cherry tree.

Longer or brighter lighting may well help you to overwinter them but
they do need a lot of it and it's likely to cost a lot more than
replacing them every season although some T5 fluorescent tubes may not
be too bad to run.

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