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  • From: Curtis Millsap <cmillsap1 AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] lights in hoop house
  • Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:26:07 -0800 (PST)

Joe, I never use supplemental light, although I expect I would get better growth if I did.  I suspect that in my case, soil temperatures are a bigger limiting factor than light, but I do have pretty slow seedling growth in February. 
Curtis
 
Curtis and Sarah Millsap
Millsap Farm
Springfield MO
C 839-0847
www.millsapfarms.com


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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:39:45 -0600
From: Joe Tittiger <joe AT tittiger.com>
To: Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Market-farming] Lights in hoop house?
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I have always started plants inside under lights and used 12 hours of
daylight.
This year I have the luxury of a hoop house and wonder if at the latitude of
37 N
(Springfield MO) in February if lights would be beneficial?

Next week day length will be 11 hours so I am inclined  to think that lights
will not
be necessary this time of year.  Does anyone use lights in a hoophouse if
say you were
to start plants in Dec or Jan?

Thanks for your input!
Joe - Seymour MO
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