[Community_garden] flluorescent bulbs

[Susan Shear]

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" 
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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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