I would say that with so many people growing under lights these days indoors they may not take notice of the thin line the plants always cross. Get some Sun
The deflator index for 1994 is 73.865 and for 2013 it is 106.59 (US Dollar Implicit Price Deflators for Gross Domestic Product 1929-2013, 2009=100, BEA). It follows that, with numbers rounded to two decimals:
12,000.00 US Dollars of 1994 are worth 17,316.46 US Dollars of 2013.