| If the rest of the cultural conditions are similar - temperature and humidity for example - I don't think this would be a problem at all. I grow my phals under shop lights and then take many of them over to my mother to enjoy during the bloom period. Never had a single bud/bloom drop from changing conditions. I think changing home conditions are a lot less severe than commercial growers to store to home conditions - which causes problems. Also the wintery weather conditions are significant issues in transferring blooming phals from place to place. In purchasing a plant from a local grower they didn't want me to even carry the plant 100 feet in the cold winter weather to my car unprotected for fear of bud drop. I had to drive my car practically to the door of the greenhouse and scurry the covered plant into my heated car! Many phal growers are now selling them wth towers of clear plastic up and over the blooms/buds to protect them from the chill of their surroundings - often they are placed near store open doors, near produce sections, etc. and within even hours are suffering. Many of our home grown phals will be blooming as the weather starts to warm just a bit which can take the edge off the temperature fluctuation issues. I'd say - go for it. Don't get your phals too close to the T5 bulbs - they can overpower a phal if you are not careful - you might think of starting around 18 inches away and watch the coloration of the leaves. Good luck - mike  |