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["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hello,

You know those shop "clamp" lamps that have a round, metal, bell shaped,  
hood?  You can clamp and direct the light most anywhere.

I just took a 4' dowel, screwed the butt end into a piece of scrap  
plywood, added a clamp lamp and viola, an adjustable height grow lamp.

Image of simple clamp lamp;
http://sargentwelch.com/images/200/WLS40768-A_EA.jpg

Later,
Tom

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 09:17:13 -0600, Dave Griffin  
<griffingardens@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Mark,
>   As I understand it, these are the ones that fit into a socket such as  
> you
> would have on a desk lamp. What sort of fixture do you use then that  
> would
> put the light immediately above the plants in a long bank of flats? I am
> thinking about something that would  replace my four chain-hung shop  
> lights
> in a double row 8' long.
>
> Dave
> central MN
> where good grow light op's abound.
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Mark Lee <markl@nytec.com>
> > To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Date: 2/19/05 6:38:50 PM
> > Subject: [NAFEX] indoor lighting
> >
> > A recent post talked about indoor lighting for seedlings.  I thought I
> > should share my experience with plants lights.  Sometimes my fruit
> > exploring projects take place indoors as I try to propagate cuttings and
> > seedlings during winter.
> >
> > Last year all I had under the lights was tomatoes.  I have fluorescent
> > tubes meant for plants.  The tomatoes were leggy and took quite a while
> > to adapt to direct sunlight.  Last fall I started to experiment with
> > various cheap sources of light to improve my chances of success this
> > spring.  What has worked best for me are compact fluorescent bulbs, CF,
> > the kind that replace the standard screw-in incandescent bulbs that you
> > see everywhere.  These CF bulbs are cheap relative to bulbs marketed as
> > "plant lights".  I just bought a 23W CF bulb today for $7 that puts out
> > the equivalent light energy of a 100W standard bulb without wasted heat.
> > I also saw one the puts out the equivalent of 150W standard bulb.  These
> > CF bulbs are really cranking up the lumens in my seedling nursery.
> >
> > Seedlings that are doing well with the high light output of these cheap
> > CF bulbs include honeyberry, figs, citrus, mountain ash and black
> > cherry.  I even have a fig cutting that rooted last summer that is
> > setting a fig under these lights.  I look forward to seeing how my
> > tomatoes do with these lights.
> >
> > -Mark Lee, Seattle, zone 8a
> >
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