For house plants to thrive in artificial light, they need light of a certain color, brightness and length of time.
Light color is important when plants are growing under artificial light.
They need light in the blue and red portions of the color spectrum. Common incandescent bulbs don't have enough blue, so plants grown under them have long, weak stems, few leaves, and are usually pale green. Ordinary fluorescent lamps don't have enough red. Plants grown under them are shrubby and have unusually dark leaves. Plants grown under artificial light will grow very well under a mixture of light from cool white fluorescent and incandescent lamps.