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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] seed starting
  • Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:11:18 -0500

Here's my question:

This year I have a heated greenhouse to start in. Previous years I've started under lights and then moved to a hotframe in the hoophouse. My question: now that i can get intense natural light from dawn to dusk, is there any reason to apply artificial lighting to get the 16 hours of light that starting-under-lights programs usually recommend? Or is the 11 or so hours of real sunlight sufficient?
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Subject: [Market-farming] bottom watering and seed starting
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For a friend of min, Some of his early flower starts have not held up well to watering and inspite of continual misting, he's had some cells dry out. Bottom watering seems to be called for in both these cases.

Last year, I bottom watered by putting two inches of water in 25 gal. horse watering tub and setting 2 flats at a time into the tub and then coming back in about 20 minutes when the water had been wicked up.

I assume there is an easier, more effecient, way of doing this. Before I actually go through the pains of thinking, I wanted to ask how others handle bottom watering on a farm-scale plant starting effort.

Thanks

-Allan
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Del,
Understanding, NO try a little common sense to know that one should stay on
subject instead going into the far left field. There are those who should
not have computers.
Patrick in NC

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From: "Del Williams" <delannw AT dlogue.net>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fwd: NY Times ad against the war


Patrick,

she is new and there have been several OT's here this winter.

How about a little understanding here?

Del




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