[Community_garden] flluorescent bulbs

[Mike McGrath]

what Ken said.
                                    ---Mike McG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Hargesheimer" <minifarms at gmail.com>
To: "Susan Shear" <s_shear at yahoo.com>
Cc: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] flluorescent bulbs


> "Cool white" works perfectly and I keep them 1 inch above the plants. 
> Just
> move the links in the chain as needed to raise the light as the plants
> grow.  I saw some tomato transplants one time that were 18 inches tall and
> only a few leaves right at the top due to the light placed too high and 
> the
> plants were trying to get to it.
>
> Ken Hargesheimer
>
>
> On 3/31/07, Susan Shear <s_shear at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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