Quote Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
If anyone has any ideas as to why my fluorescent tubes keep doing this I would be grateful if you shared. If I unplug the light and plug it back in, the lights go on again and everything is fine for a day or 2.
It kinda sounds more like an issue with the ballast or fixture itself, rather than the bulb. I had a fluorescent fixture in my kitchen that started doing something similar, and it turned out that the contact pins on the tube weren't always making full contact with the ballast and completing the circuit. Mine was probably about seven or eight years old, though.

There's a lot of cool information at this site, and some resources to help you troubleshoot: Lighting Resource Maybe that'll give you an idea what you're dealing with.

And those mothers look fine! Luckily for us, these hardy plants can also tolerate absentmindedness from their gardeners. May they give you abundant clonage! :jointsmile: