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Perpetual Novice
Join Date: Jun-2003
Location: Bridgewater, NJ
Country: United States
Posts: 1,367
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Quote:
Originally posted by TreeBay
I lost a very nice one under similar conditions, so in retrospect, I would be very careful to keep it warm enough.
I would run the lights at night, simply to keep the temperature up. During the day can be the plants' night.
Also I'd concentrate on maintenance and health for the first couple years, over leaf reduction and styling or anything else!
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Couldn't agree with you more! There's a reason that not many northern nurseries that sell tropicals do not have buttonwoods, and that is the difficulty of getting the tree to survive, let alone flourish.
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