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I have a small greenhouse set up in the corner of my room where I am keeping tropical sundews and two Nepenthes, miranda and ventricosa. They had been outside all summer, but it has gotten too cold to keep them outside. I occasionally mist them with distilled water and have two lamps flanking them. I walmart lamp with a 1600 lumen cfl bulb I got from walmart and that did quite well last winter when I brought my plants in. The other is in the upper left corner and is a dayspot incandescant bulb providing a little heat and more light. I got it from amazon and have no idea the lumens or color temperature, but the description on amazon sayed it was great for houseplants and orchids and it had favorable reviews. I am not looking for the perfect environment, just one to last till spring. Is this all right?

As far as I know, incandescent aren't what you want to use. A CFL will probably be better for providing usable light. "Plant lights" aren't much better than an incandescent, IIRC.

For heat, though, and incandescent will do nicely since you can leave it on at night, and it won't mess up photoperiod.

The main worry about incandescents, especially in an enclosed space like that, is that they will raise the temperature too high for the plants. Keep a close eye on the temperature in there and switch to a CFL if it gets too hot.