They grow great (if a little less vigorously) inside but have the same requirements as outside (don't like to be repotted, blossom best when neglected a little, etc.). They should do fine if the doorway you mention is around that full sliding door that's going to light them. In a more interior area they'd need some artificial lighting. My indoor/winter ones grow around a hoop under normal fluorescents and tend to twine back and forth around it several times. They're pretty messy indoors, so it helps to keep them contained on one manageable structure (not the easiest thing to do with morning glories). They seem to have eyes for anything within a few feet that might serve as a support for twining (other plants, especially), and I don't know whether they'd choke the other plants so I keep steering them back to the hoop. With tendrils free to grope along surrounding walls, etc., they'll be gorgeous, although they won't cooperate with any attempt to keep them out of the way of the door! Hope that helped...

All of those fiber/peat/cardboard pots that they say you can just stick right in the ground... you can't actually do that. We've seen multiple people here on the boards (including myself) that have dug plants up at the end of the season only to find the entire pot still pretty much intact. They simply do not rot away correctly. Down under the soil they are away from light and air, and all of the bacteria that would normally decompose them can't reach that far down. Roots will also automatically try to avoid any hard surface when they can, which means they'll naturally try to coil around in there instead of punching through. It just ends up causing more trouble than they're worth. Feel free to use them, just make sure you take them off before putting your plant in the dirt (easiest way to do that is to soak them real good and then just tear them apart in pieces).

Hi Limeinqueens. I am close to you in NJ if you are in Queens NY. It will do better outside in the long run. I am battling scale right now myself. We had such a long cold cloudy spring until now that my trees were not growing either, but during these last few hot sunny days they have really taken off. New growth is bursting out all over and many are blooming again. I have more than 40 trees and only the Owari Satsuma is still just sitting there inactive although it looks healthy. Several of my trees leaves got yellowish and spotty, but I think that was because they had a hard time absorbing fertilizer nutrients while it was cooler. Also, we just had weeks of cloudy weather here; no actual rain but it always looked threatening. Just days and days of clouds and hardly any sun. Now that it is sunny and hot for a few days and we have had one rainstorm the trees have really taken off. I have the problem with the ants farming the scale and some aphids, but I have been trying to get rid of them with water sprays, soap sprays, alcohol, and ultrafine horticulture oil, and fish emulsion. Usually I can just hook my miracle grow fertilizer attachment to my garden hose, fill it with fish emulsion (if you don't mind the smell) and just give them and all the bushes and hedges in the yard a good spray and it clears them all up. Not this year though; they are much more persistent. I think I have to find something that will get rid of the ants. Usually they are the little ones, but this year it seems to be much larger ants and nothing phases them. I have been cleaning my trees leaf by leaf and it can be very time consuming. Unfortunately I still have those pesky ants farming the scale mainly, but the trees are growing so fast I think they are better outside. Last evening I sprayed everything with Ulrafine or maybe it is called UltraPure hoticultural oil. Don't spray oils when it is hot or sunny or you will burn your plants. If you spray in the evening the oil will dissapate by morning and your plants will be safe if it is a sunny day. I have started to add Pro-Tekt, a Dyna-Gro product, which is supposed to improve heat and drought tolerance, increase resistance to environmental stress, and enhance growth for stronger, hardier plants. If your plants are healthy they can take care of disease and bugs pretty well by themselves. I have used it on my orchid collection for several years and I feel that the plants were more resistant to mealy bug and scale all winter when I used it during the summer. Nothing scientific about my experience, just my observation. I forget to use it last summer and then I seemed to have a buggy winter so I just started using it again. I mix it in with the Foliage Pro, but you can't mix them together or you get a precipitate. I mix the Foliage Pro with water and then add the Pro-Tekt and it is fine, just don't mix the two concentrates together first and then add water, or you will see the precipitate and it will not mix correctly. It says it on the label of the Pro -Tekt, but you might not see it. Don't get discouraged. Your tree will be taking off soon now. Don't forget to fertilize regularly. I think you have a Meyer Lemon from reading your past posts. You may have to feed it a little more than other citrus, I think because it is continuously blooming and setting fruit. Make sure your fertilizer contains the micronutients. Foliage Pro does. Many do not, and that might be why your tree is yellowing. But I think it is probably the results of the colder weather, cloudy skies, and it may just be the older leaves being drained of food as it is about to go into a period of rapid growth. I notice that happens with some of mine. Some citrus seem to be heavier feeds than others. Good luck with your tree and I hope you will soon be enjoying beautiful rapid growth and fragrant blooms. Cory

Hey yellow thumb, where do you put your Michelia Alba in the winter? In a sunny room??? Do you have to watch for spider mites? I hear they love that plant. I will give you my address if you don't have it. How is the jade doing? So good to see you. You have to make the time. You are so missed here and have so much to offer along with your beautiful plants. As for your trees, if you don't mind them slowing down or loosing their rich green color, those temps will be fine as long as you know you watch your watering and I already know you use very ood mixes. In fact, it's much better than being in a dry heated house this early...Just make sure to acclimate them indoors if that is what you plan to do. Are you going to put them in a heated home in a sunny window, or a cool place? If a cool place you will not have to acclimate them...