Cymbiums have large pots and the grass like leaves hold a few cups full of ice cubes. I just pour the cubes on the plant at night when it is the coolest and it takes hours for that many cubes to melt and in turn cool the roots. The Prags are much smaller and the fans are above the media and could get some damage from that much of the applied ice temp's so you may not be able to apply as much cubes. You may be limited to placing a handful making sure they do not touch the fans, so maybe you could also place the pot into a larger saucer bowl with more cubes which would cool the roots and if planted in cocoa or spag would absorb the cool water from the bottom creating cooler media. I do this for my cymbidiums for about a month a few times a week, but never did this for Phrags since our winter nights drop into the upper 40's for at least 3/4 of January. I use several small fans to create air movement and have very few rot deaths you get from Phal and slipper crown rot which can be common if moisture is left in that area when the nights get cooler.

The duration of light is probably not as important to plants as the quality of the wave lengths. Some street lamps affect plant growth much more adversely than others. The attached link describes some of the problems associated with some street lights. Photoperiodic response in plants varies from species to species. They will fall under one of three categories: short-day, long-day, and day-neutral. Those that are short-day plants respond to nights longer than about 12 hours (thus, short day). Those plants will be induced to flower under those conditions. Long-day plants are triggered to flower when the nights are shorter than around 12 hours. Day-neutral plants don't respond to the number of hours of darkness, but will bloom according to other requirements. You can look up any plant on the internet to find out its photoperiodic category. And hybrids can certainly be long day plants. Or short day or neutral. Here is a link that might be useful: Effects of street lighting

No. It may affect blooming in the few species that are day-length sensitive. Linda

The first house I lived in was on the Salt River Indian Reservation in AZ, just a wooden cottage raised up on concrete footings. Some years later - my Mom and Dad bought a brand new rancher in Phoenix- this was late 50's when the 6 story Westward Ho Hotel was the tallest building in Phoenix. Our house, as most were in the area, was a pink cinderblock built on a polished concrete slab. No two story homes or basements. The older areas had a few 2 story homes but that wasnt the norm,that was old Phoenix money or the Wrigleys! We had vinyl tile, popcorn ceilings and wool avocado wall to wall in the living room.Later shag rugs in the bedrooms!( pink and red for me!) When I was a teen we had a decorator that chose traditional furniture with a mediterranean Spanish flair and used pecan wood tables.All of the windows had WTs that would keep the sun out. Some people used to foil over their windows.I never heard of a roller shade until we moved back east to MD. Also never encountered stairs, except in the old Montgomery Ward store which was a story and a half balcony! I think we leaned traditional with a Spanish flair because my Mom grew up in a huge Victorian with land in the Maryland countryside and my Dad grew up in a big house in Mass,in a clapboard center hall colonial. I still live in MD in a small colonial revival house built in 1923. My taste has changed from Colonial Williamsburg to "cottage whatever". I think it is more comfy for us. and vintage thrift stuff mixes well with family pieces -the real colonial antiques and the victorian antiques. My neighborhood is mostly colonial revivals, quite a few Queen Anne Victorians as well as some gothic victorians. There are also quite a few 4 squares. Most all of the houses were built in the 20s with a few in the 1880s. Traditional decor seems to be the norm and seems to be age related- Potterybarn-esque for the younger crowd to Wiiliamsburg traditional and a couple -make- you -gulp Victorians( and not in a good way) Unfortunately the trend here in the last 10 years has been huge great room add ons- so you have many houses built in late 1880s early 20's with monstrous things sticking out the back. Definitely not in keeping with the vintage of the house. Inside, these rooms are beautiful but lack the charm that is found in the rest of the house.Crossing into the great room is like entering another country, one that has little to do with the rest of the house.Looks like they all use the same floorplan. Predictible. Talk about stereotypes, Aunt Jane and Lynne no offense, but when I was growing up, to us Arizonians ya'll were Easterners to us! Bit of snobs we were. Still am as far as Mexican food! LOL I equate the Kokopelli Southwestern style of decor with the big hair of the 80s! Never saw any of it growing up in AZ, just in the East and thought who are they fooling with that fake stuff?