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- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Growing lights
- Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 15:03:29 -0400
After years of screwing flourescent lights to the bottom of
old closet doors and stacking the doors with various spacers, I realized last
year that the new metal shelves (like http://shelving.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=WSS/CTGY/WS-S) I
got are a wonderful size for 4 foot flourescent fixtures. I cut about 4 inches
on one end of the flared hood to get them to really fit, but much less messy. In
fact, I moved seed starting up into the dining room. I hang 3 fixtures from each
shelf, then put flats crosswise. You could do two fixtures and put two flats in
lengthwise. Little metal shower curtain hooks work well for hanging the
chains that suspend the lights.
Though we think of flourescent lights as being "cool", the
ballasts actually give off heat and I put seeded flats on top of the ballasts
for warmth. Works well.
Last year I also splurged on high end UltraSun metal halide
lamp. Don't waste your money. The instructions that came with it were much less
optomistic about the area it would cover than the sales description had been.
The plants didn't do particularly well under it. I didn't bother to set it up
this year.
Beth Spaugh
Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY
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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Marty Kraft Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 12:56 AM To: Market Farming Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Growing lights Marty
On May 8, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Michael Libsch wrote: Hello All, |
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[Market-farming] Growing lights,
Michael Libsch, 05/08/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Growing lights,
Marty Kraft, 05/09/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Growing lights, Beth Spaugh, 05/09/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Growing lights, Tom, 05/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Growing lights,
Richard Robinson, 05/09/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Growing lights, Thomas P Hurtgen, 05/10/2010
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- Re: [Market-farming] Growing lights, Mac, 05/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Growing lights,
Marty Kraft, 05/09/2010
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