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Lemon tree lighting

last year

I brought my Meyer Lemon Tree inside recently. It is loaded with lemons, but they aren’t ripe yet. I want to do everything I can to get them to ripen. I hung two grow lights over the tree - a Spider Farmer sf600 and a Feit “3 ft. 120-Watt Heavy-Duty White Full Spectrum LED” (model GLP36FS/V/120W/LED). Is this adequate lighting or should I add more? I have them set for 12 hours/day.

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poncirusguy6b452xx
last year
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looks really good to me. I live in zone 6b and here is my setup for a Meiwa kumquat tree

can you plant inground. My tee has 4 layers of glass with 5 layers on top. I heat it with lights that ore controlled by a 35F Thermo cube switch
vgkg Z-7 Va
last year
^^^ That's a nice set up. I did something similar to my outdoor Meyer lemon tree with 3 100w lightbulbs to keep it warm. Sadly, we lost power in Feb at 3am one night when the temp outside was 5 degrees F, the tree was dead the next morning after just 4 hours of no power.

As for your lighting set-up tim, it seems ok but if it's not enough light then your leaves will let you know soon enough. (turning yellow/falling off)
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