About a year ago @alifeeney and I got this tropical plant from a neighbor. It had been brightening up our dim room with its tropical leaves, but it loves sun, and our cloudy Brooklyn apartment does not provide, so its been dying/shrinking and has a mould from not enough light.
After trying little cheap led lights for it, I decided to use some of the giant tubes I got in NC and make a light for it. This is about 12-18 feet or so of 20mm mercury rose pink. I think its between 4- 6 pounds of glass. It puts off a lot of light, is really easy to light up (large diameter tubes have less resistance) and you can look right at it without it being too bright.
After about an hour of being wrapped in the light, the plants leaves started perking up a little :) I plan on making an acrylic trellis with stuff scrapped from Manhattan ad campaigns so I can make a few more coils for it.
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