So the grow lamp room was a fail. The papyrus is barely growing. The hyacinths have just held on and everything else that survived I've moved to a sunlite window. I was looking forward to bountiful verdancy in January, oh well. Metal Halide, or at least this particular metal halide...? doesn't work much at all. But perhaps I just got a crappy product? I can't imagine people successfully growing marijuana with this lamp.... (Not that i would, just that's what comes to mind most usually wtih grow lamps...)

When I look online there are endless companies selling grow lamps. But I can't find anything that has decent reviews or shows plants really actually growing well. (sigh), perhaps I just bought the wrong product. Perhaps I didn't search well enough.

But then perhaps it's the soil? I don't know.

Did successfully sprout avocadoes, mangos, pear, cherry and lemon seeds. Looks like they'll live although not growing a lot as they don't get a lot of sunlight. Grape, blueberry and blackberry sprouted and then eventually died.

Metal halide lamp is a bit of a fail. Cannot grow tomato plants. They all died. I think in part it got too hot for them? But at the same time wasn't enough sun energy. Catnip is about dead too. For the hell of it I tried some broccoli seeds and the same.

The lemon seeds came up nice but are just in stasis. And if I don't water a couple times a day, they quickly start wilting. The blueberry sprouts also going nowhere. And now the blackberry sprouts probably the same.

The papyrus plant is growing.

Been moving things to the window downstairs that gets some sunlight. It doesn't get a lot of sunlight as my state is very very dreary in the winter. But shall see if it manages better than the metal halide lamp. I guess though if I keep the window wide open to cool them down, while also putting the lamp much closer perhaps that might do some good....

Blackberry, blueberry, pear, and cherry seeds. All properly cooled in the refrigerator. Blackberry seeds soaked in vinegar for 4 hours previous. And all planted. One pear seed immediately sprouted. Nothing else yet. Will be annoyed if that's all I get.

Tomato sprouts seem to be dying/not thriving. Don't know why. Worry the light is too strong. Yet supposedly I'm supposed to be putting it closer to the sprouts than I am. I think not enough water getting down into the roots. Wife thinks I'm watering too much.

The 4 blueberry sprouts are growing so, so slowly. At this rate I'll have some blueberry bushes in 5 years. Only the lemon seeds came up nice. Although now, they don't seem to be growing anymore, just in stasis...

Dug up bamboo from a house up the road. Was very hard to do. Called a place in Alabama about ordering more as it's just too hard to dig up. They said it's too late to plant. Hoping it's just the suddeness of going from Alabama weather to WV weather. Hopefully these transplanted ones will do OK.

Grow lamp room. "The Tropic Room"?
Lemon seeds sprouting. Have cherry, grape and blackberry seeds in the refrigerator, that I'll take out in November. I guess I'll do something with the pear seeds also here shortly. Have my doubts about the blueberry seeds. Online it said to use a blender, but I don't think it means a vitamix blender. Suspect it destroyed the seeds... But then sprouting takes a while. So I'll wait much longer. Also planted some catnip seeds, nothing yet. Brought in some water lettuce and hyacinths. The hyacinths in the aquarium are doing very well though. Water lettuce wasn't though. Under perfect conditions they grow like crazy, but otherwise die easily. Doubt they'll do well in the ... "grow lamp room" either.

Need to bring in the papyrus. Haven't successfully got an avocado seed to sprout yet. (I need to eat more avocados...)

Eventually I want this room to just be teeming with verdancy.

...The Library, The Music Studio, The Swing Room, The Theater, The Pond, The Garden... should I buy a 12 foot long 6x6 today...? Still not sure.