We grow a lot of cilantro and what we do with it is make Pesto....well technically it would be Pistou as we don't add the pine nuts. Yes I know pesto is made with basil but can be made from cilantro as well. You just add the cilantro to a food processor and drizzle in olive oil until it is a puree and add garlic as well and salt and pepper to taste. We dose it out on cookie sheets by the cupful and freeze it then bag it up. You can use it many different ways in cooked dishes or by itself. If you want cheese in it wait till you thaw individual portions. Try it, and you will love it. We do the same with basil in the summer.

It will bolt much more rapidly in summer conditions, but its hard to say exactly how long, because growing conditions have such an influence. I guess the best way to explain it is to say that, the more stressed the plants are factors such as heat or drought, the faster they will bolt. Shade in the afternoon would definitely help to delay bolting. Shaded cilantro also is, IMHO, somewhat better for certain culinary uses, because it has very tender stems. Sounds like you're doing this for commercial purposes -- you may want to check out a few of the improved varieties such as 'Santo', "Leisure", or "Slow Bolt" which were bred to be slower to bolt.

Thanks. You can grow anything you want indoors but with limitations. Indoor lightning is nowhere near as strong as sunlight, so plants tend to become etiolated----abnormally tall and lanky, often referred to as "leggy". You definitely would need shop lights. There is an entire forum on Growing Under Lights here at Garden Web if you want to read up on it. Even in the summertime, I think results indoors might be a little iffy. It would depend on several factors. How much light the plants get is only one. If you put the plants in a sunny, south-facing window that isn't shaded or partially shaded by trees and where the light isn't filtered through curtains, the plants might get enough light to grow. I'm not sure though. You'd need to keep your house's thermostat set low enough to keep the indoor temperature at or below 75 to prevent bolting. If the sunshine coming through the window shines directly on the plant and its container, the sunlight might heat up the soil in the container above 75 degrees. See how complicated it can be? If I were going to attempt to row cilantro indoors in our house in the summertime, I'd probably put it on my light shelf in front of an east[facing window. I'd leave the curtains open so it could get morning sun, but would turn the light on mid-day so it got light from the light shelf for the rest of the day. The combination of morning sun with artificial light during the hotter part of the day might be enough to keep it growing well without bolting, but I'm not sure as I've never attempted it. I just grow cilantro in the cool-season and culantro in the warm-season. I find it easier to work with the weather we have than to try to totally circumvent it. Remember that you also can grow cilantro outdoors in the fall, from a late-summer sowing. You can grow lettuce and other greens indoors in summer, so I imagine cilantro would do as well as they do, but none of them will get the size indoors they do outdoors because of the weaker light. The way around that is to continually cut them off slightly above the soil level and let them regrow. This is called the cut-and-come-again method. I never cut 100% of any plant with the cut-and-come again method, harvesting only part of it at a time so there's foliage left to conduct photosynthesis in order to keep the plant growing and to keep the cut-off part regrowing.

Plant LOTS of it, and harvest several plants at once. Cilantro works best with multiple plantings a season, like this. http://www.sunset.com/garden/flowers-plants/better-way-grow-cilantro