wendyjcs

Thanks for the replies! Right now outdoors it's 80's and quite humid, but since it's Wisconsin, I'd hate to acclimate the poor thing to outdoor conditions and then drag inside and force it to reacclimate yet again, in September, to overdry "winter in Wisconsin" indoor conditions... I'm sad to remove it from work because I really love to have plants at work and it IS sending out new shoots, but since today is the 4th, I'll bet tomorrow it will have shed more leaves since the office was dark. So I guess I'll disrupt it again, take it home, and hope it doesn't hate me too much. I could try the north window (it's huge, but unfortunately has 2-foot eaves) and a grow light. The room that faces north has our hot tub; it oughta like that humidity. (Unless it hates the hot tub smell. we'll see, I guess.)

OR... We also have an angled skylight on the other side of that room (totally away from the window), but it's rather small and the actual light-emitting opening is a ways up (a good 6 feet or so). The tree wouldn't get direct sun most of the time, but it might get a bit on long summer days. If I put it under the skylight, I'm not sure where I could put a grow light. Would it be OK, d'ya think, to have a grow light coming at it from an angle, at a lower height than the tree itself? Or maybe I wouldn't need one?

Whattaya think, north window with eaves, or skylight? All the other rooms in our house are too small (already crammed), and tend to have fans going year-round to help keep hot air/cold air mixing.

I really wouldn't want to give it up... all the people I know are less plant-oriented than I am, and would probably kill it... I feel like I've picked up a stray puppy or something, ya know? ;-) I've already become quite fond of it--temperamental or not. It actually seems to have a fair amount of spunk; it started putting out those new shoots only a few weeks after it was moved to my office.

Thanks and wish me luck.