Today is the day for lights! Still deciding between two choices. Also will need to get a sheet of drywall to put up the closet to divide the space in half. Whole thing is about 17' from one side to the other with two sets of doors and about 4' in the middle (approximate numbers - have not measured). About 2.5' or so deep, and 10' high. As we WANT to be able to use the closet as a closet too, we'll be using half to grow and ~half for normal closet use. Our tarantulas live in the closet as well and I doubt they'd like the high light conditions!

Pics up later. All but three are growing beautifully. The snapped-stem baby is still recovering nicely. I think once it's rerooted properly it will explode like the others are. The two that had their casings taken off (one for sure by hubby, one likely when dug out of the dirt since it was too far down - confirmed by husband as well) are both struggling. One has baby real leaves that are SLOWLY growing, and the other's cotys are all dried up but have teeny tiny regular leaves. Fairly sure that one will die, but we're hopeful. I'm considering putting in a bit of growth fert in with that one to help it out since the feeder leaves are gone. I'll let you know my results.

Because of not wanting to keep buying from elsewhere longer than we have to (REALLY great price IMO, but still), we're thinking about switching them to 12/12 shortly after the recover from being topped. We'll top them once after they get their 4th set of leaves (we can see the baby set of #3 on some!), and once they are recovered and growing a bit they will be put onto 12/12. For now they are on regular outside light but will be moved to between 18/6 and 20/4 tonight. Even with the switch, we should have enough medicine from the smaller plants to last until the next harvest.