day to night temp change and indoors growing

[nogreenthumbs]

For folks that grow indoors, how do you manage (or do you) the temp change that so many culture sheets seem to advise? Do you really let your house go from 75° during the day to 65° at night?

I'm in Houston. I feel pretty lucky that right now our night time temps are in the mid 70s. There have been years when the temps at midnight are almost 90 (obviously, that's an extreme).

On top of the fact that the temps never get low at night, we have someone in the apt all of the time, so we don't let the temp go up a lot during the day. Our temp change in the apt is maybe 3-4 degrees.

I mostly keep the plants on an east facing windowsill. I'll do the same during the winter, and hopefully, at night, it'll be a bit cooler near the windows than in the middle of the apt and that will help.

What do you do to accomplish a large temp swing?