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I live in Northern Wisconsin, and winter is not a great time for growing things up here. I have three small ficus trees and one schefflera, all ones that my Grandpa started from cuttings. Two of the ficus trees started to brown up a little bit and lose leaves. One of them has lost almost all of them! I was guessing that they weren't getting enough natural sunlight with the angle of the sun and the direction my windows are facing so I bought a grow light.
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It's a two foot fluorescent grow light. I have it running 15 hours a day on a timer. Do you think that is enough artificial light for a ficus? I've heard they need lots of light. I had to move them away from the window to get the grow light set up so they are not getting really any natural sunlight. Any advice helps!!

Hello Delta263

First of all I'm not an expert but I also use a growing lamp.
I bought it because I like cooking therefore I like my herbs fresh. I live in London (originally not from UK) so the light conditions are poor during autumn and wintertime. Or when the weather is rubbish...
A year ago I've got my ficus and couple of month ago a P. afra.
I also use the lamp to support them with light and it works. Both of them growing and healty and they don't really get natural light at the moment.

I have an LED lamp: Excelvan 14W LED Plant Grow Light.
225 LEDs: 135 Red & 60 Blue & 30 White

Probably I could get better but it was cost effective and working fine.

I hope we get some proper answer what is the reason for the browning leaves.
Last time when had this sort of problem with my ficus it get cold air unfortunately.
Probably others can give proper answer what else can cause this problem.

My opinion is that the lamp helps.

I personally only have a grow lamp for my pepper seedlings. All my more mature plants just sit inthe window, and do OK-ish for the 4-6 months indoors, then break away with growth come summer. But I am a sucker for saving energy where it can easily be done.

I have been growing my orchids under T12 (shop lamps) for a while, they love it. They flower every year and are healthy. I live in Michigan, and even my south facing window wasn't producing enough light for my bonsai (a Brazilian Rain Tree). I leave it in the sun for the few good hours it gets. For the rest of the day it goes on the gravel trays with the orchids under the light. Seems to be doing fine. I got an app on my phone to see how many lux of light and the temperature (K) it is. That might be helpful to you to put things in numerics.