I too have seen fruit trees that will grow and fruit indoors with out signifigant changes in temps and under artificial light. In I can think of a plant in the Mulberry family very closely related to figs and hops(a good one to throw at rednecks who "only drink beer" that actual produces better fruit in artificial light than natural light. However apple trees will not, they need chilling hours as do a lot of fruit bearing plants in the rose family as most plants in this family occur in the cooler parts of the northern hemisphere. Plants and animals are more closely linked than you think I have used plants in my animal set-ups for years that are indigenous to the regions they come from as guage for conditions.If the plants do well the animals inevitably will as well.I mostly do it with chameleons daygeckos and skinks but with enough effort it can be applied to monitors as well. although working with plants from the australasian archipelligo is a little more difficult than other areas the greater Sunda landmass is particularly tricky. Madagascar and South Africa are much easier and of course working with south american stuff is just downright easy I good reproduce a south american rainforest habitat in my sleep or a cloud forest or a pantanal type enviroment. You should stick with reptiles btw. I have probably forgotten more about plants (Fruit trees in particular)in the last 5 minutes than you have ever learned. You are definitely out of your league here. I think about you when I pick my next carambola from a tree growing 50 miles out of it's normal range (in Florida) and I'll eat it uner a Delonix regia tree growing 150 miles out of it's range.

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