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- From: Marty Kraft <martyk AT allspecies.org>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] grow lights
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:58:32 -0600
Find a company that sells energy efficient fluorescent fixtures and tubes and ask them to donate some old fixtures. Make sure you get the energy efficient ballasts and tubes. That way you have an ecological lesson in sustainability built into you seed growing. Mount three or four two lamp fixtures as close together as you can get them on a piece of 3/8 inch plywood. If you cant use chains, make the ply hang over the ends of the fixtures and use gallon paint cans to support the fixtures over the plant trays. Use 3/4 inch scraps to raise the lights as the plants grow. Be sure to keep the lights as close to the plants as possible to prevent them from getting leggy. They'll need all the light they can get.
Marty Kraft
Kansas City
On Dec 19, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Lucy Goodman wrote:
A shop light fixture hung on two chains with S hooks at either end. As
the plants grow you simply shorten the chain by moving the light fixture
up the links. can hang from a shelf or the ceiling
Lucy Goodman
http://boulerbelt.blogspot.com
Grow19 AT aol.com wrote:
anyone have simple designs for inexpensive 'grow' lights; not for_______________________________________________
hydroponics; for seed starting. something simple for use in a classroom
on top of a table.A shop light fixture hung on
thanks!
judy tiger, washington dc
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[Market-farming] grow lights,
Grow19, 12/19/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] grow lights,
Lucy Goodman, 12/19/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] grow lights, Marty Kraft, 12/19/2005
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- Re: [Market-farming] grow lights, tonitime, 12/20/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] grow lights,
Lucy Goodman, 12/19/2005
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