Market Farming

[Lova Andriamanjay <lova.andriamanjay AT gmail.com>]

Good morning,

this year we have to start quite a bit of early transplants. I have a
brand new (to me) greenhouse but don't want to start it before mid
april (30x100 is costly to run). Last frost is usually around mid may.
When the greenhouse is started I want to have healthy tomato and
pepper transplants in 4" pots. Right now I have a fluorescent setup
(three shelves of 4 tubes/4 trays) but I definitely won't have enough
space under these when I pot the greenhouse tomatoes up to 4" pots.
How large of an area could I cover with a combination of a 1000w HPS
and 1000W MH for transplants growing? Would I get better results with
those lights or should I just add more fluorescents? I feel HIDs might
be better because it would be a lot less work to manage the height of
the lights and they are not too expensive when bought second hand
locally.

Regards,

Lova Andriamanjay
www.jardinchezjulieetlova.com
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