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I live in Beijing, in an apartment. I currently have my plants outside in a window basket hanger. However, I was thinking about dormancy... Beijing is cold winters and hot summers. The winters regularly get below 0. My apartment however gets cold as hell. I would like to keep these on my windowsill for the winter, I have heard that this works. Will this work?

(also, I am sorry for not posting this in the dormancy thread. For some reason this site takes so long to load in China. A page takes about 5 or more minutes)

OMG. 5 minutes. Why is your Internet so slow?

Where I live in winter it can go -20 -25 -30 Celsius. I just put my plant near a hot sunny window in the morning. Strangely, the sun is shining on weekends and dark the morning in week. Sometimes it looks like it is the night but it's 6:00/7:00am And it's getting dark really fast in evening. It's already dark at 4-5 o' clock PM

VFT plants get in dormancy when the temperatures are cooler with shorter days. So yes.

What about artificial light?

I live in USA in Colorado where the winters get cold and summers are hot too, although not sure how our temperatures compare to yours. Last winter I put my VFT in my kitchen windowsill and it worked great for dormancy.

If in winter your window get minimal hours of light (where you live I know that should be ok) and the temperatures stay around or below 50F (10C) then dormancy there should be fine.