Posted by Gus on 11/10/2008, 8:16 pm, in reply to "Re: Please help with my Eucalyptus Globulus" Link: Eucalyptologics: E. globulus varied photography and informations
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There we go again 
Don't worry, hopefully these ramblings of us can be useful to some future reader too, so it is worth the time
Full spectrum light kits could be quite useful, but the effect on a plant that size is unknown to me. For small seedlings grown during dark winters indoors it would be a very reasonable choice, as these can be placed close to the lamps so to capture as much light as possible. But your plant is 2 meters Plus, besides light, it would still need temperatures above some 10ºC all day long (and better above 15ºC for a part of the day) to grow. What is pretty sure is the light would not harm.
About flowers, the problem with E. globulus flowering is that it very rarely blooms while yet on juvenile leaf stage. It can take some more years before it happens. And that means at least a small tree (or most likely something big!).
Which also means it tends to happen to planted out specimens, with the limitation that the crown must not be severely damaged by frost during all that time (so the branches are old enough as to keep the tree well fed enough as to produce flower buds and take them to flowering stage). They do or could flower relatively easily in the milder areas of the UK (roughly all the southern coast, from Cornwall to the Thames, but also in coastal spots along the Western coast of Britain, and in Northern Ireland), in as frost free areas as possible.
A single frost event between -5º and -10ºC can toast huge trees. And if they do not die, they take several years to recover to blooming stage. As long as no more events like that happen too soon. I am sorry to say the chances of it surviving in the long term as a planted out tree or of blooming in the Midlands are very low or even nil. But I'd be very happy to be proven wrong.
I think it is not a nonsense to grow E. globulus in your case, considering the limitations and the way you are doing it. It will work for a time. Whatever happens, just remember that as long as the root collar area and the root system do not die, your E. globulus will keep "resurrecting". It is in its genes
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