[Community_garden] flluorescent bulbs

[Mike McGrath]

He's right (or at least I agree and that's what I do)--but those tubes 
should really be actually touching (the lights are cool) to an inch away, 
tops.

                                                            ---McG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Shear" <s_shear at yahoo.com>
To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] flluorescent bulbs


>I just took a seed starting class at the University of Connecticut.  The 
>instructor told us that he uses shop lights that hangs from chains and 
>reguluar flluorescent bulbs.  He said the key was to keep the light 3" from 
>the top of the seedlings (thus the need for the chains) because light that 
>is too far away from the seedlings causes spindly growth.
>
>  - Susan
>
> Mike McGrath <MikeMcG at PTD.net> wrote:
>  I just use the cool whites as I'm mostly doing it to grow nice big starts
> for transplant. Theoretically, you should mix for flowering plants--but I
> have to say that mine flower great under just the cools...
> ---Brightly lit Mike McG
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Diana Jancek"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:00 AM
> Subject: [Community_garden] flluorescent bulbs
>
>
>>I know this info was posted some time ago, but could anyone tell me what
>>kind of fluorescent bulbs are used in grow lights? A friend told me that
>>they use one "cool white" and one "warm white" bulb in pairs.
>> Thanks,
>> Diana Jancek
>>
>>
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