Gardening Question - poorly Hosta, help needed

Factual Questions
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My poor Hosta needs help do I deprive ot of light or heat ?

Background
We had an exceptionally mild February … my dormant Varigated Hosta started sprouting, even went back outside. Then a cold snap, below freezing so she had to come back into the flat. Problem is it’s a ground floor flat, the shutters are shut while we’re out at work all day - the Hosta was in the toilet (no not in the toilet!) where there is a window but high up looking out onto a tiny dark courtyard.

So the spikes kept growing but slightly spindly and etiolated. Now it’s getting warmer again so at the weekend I put her outside during the day bringing her in at night but it’s still not as mild as it was and some of the leaves have gone droopy. They’re a tad greener but droopy, spikes frmo 5 - 15 cm in height.

What should I do ?
1 - Put her outside when I leave for work in the morning even though it is only about 2-5°C knowing it will get a lot warmer during the day? I’d bring her in about six thirty, six forty five in the evening when it’s starting to get cold again. There’s ‘bubble wrap’ around the pot itself and I can balance a loose cone of it around the leaves too but I can’t close them in.

2 - Leave her is ‘half-light’ for another week, or two, hoping that she’ll recover from the lack of light later in the season ?

Any and all advice welcome. Thanks.

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Lots of things shoot up early. I never brought them in. They are concerned with soil temps and the am’t of daylight. These triggers them to pop up.

Wherever you bring it, make sure it has lots of light. I’d leave it outside.

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Hostas are very hardy, when in the ground; mine survive winter just fine. However, in a pot, the answer might be different. Your choice is between keeping it in the dark for another week or two and putting it outside in the cold. Either way, you’ll lose some leaves. Did it successfully winter over in the pot, outdoors? If so, put it back outside.

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She’s back outside and looking greener - somehow the lack of woody structure makes me think Hostas aren’t hardy. Thanks for the advice.

I’m still new to this ‘gardening’ lark (‘garden’ comprises 6 or 7 pots hanging off window railings) and tend to over worry - the scene when Mum was persuading me to prune the fuschias hard back ! (They’d managed to produce new growth all winter until they got badly frosted in a cold snap.)