How long can a plant live without natural light?

As you might be able to tell from the pic, we don’t have particularly good lighting for growing plants in my office. There are no windows. I don’t think they’re ever given fertilizer. As far as I know, the only attention they get is a chick that comes once a week and waters them. We could do this ourselves I’m sure, and I assume we pay this lady, so I don’t know why we don’t just dump her and do it ourselves, but regardless, can these things survive? They’ve been here since before I started, so I have no idea how old they are.

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wheeties

Considered grow lights? I've tried the no natural sunlight thing, and it didn't work out well.

ericpratum

At my own place, I have a grow light for a miracle plant, but at work, I guess my office is the plant where plants go to die since they've never bought a grow light.

kel

dump her

princessmag

Nice post, there are plant that can live long without water and sun like the cactus..

Silver

I just recently did a project in school about plants growing under different types of light. We found out that plants can grow almost as well under florescent lights as they can under sunlight. They may be a little smaller and less healthy, but they can grow easily.

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