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["Dave Griffin" <griffingardens@earthlink.net>]

Mark,
  I agree completely, especialy with the fluorescnets lights fading over
time. This doesn't show up visually until they are very weak and who
remembers when they last replaced them. You'd have to do it every season.
  I don't have my plants under the lights for long as I move them out into
the sun porch after they sprout, but I'm going to add some of your CF bulbs
to floor lamps out there to increase the backside light. I like the fan
idea too.
  Thanks.

Dave


> [Original Message]
> From: Mark Lee <markl@nytec.com>
> To: <griffingardens@earthlink.net>; North American Fruit Explorers
<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 2/21/05 11:59:59 AM
> Subject: RE: [NAFEX] indoor lighting
>
> Dave,
> I use the clamp lights that Tom Olenio described in a previous post.  I
> don't know why the standard shop light fluorescents didn't work well for
> me.  One thing is I think they fade over time.  Another problem is the
> long tube fluorescents need to be an inch or two above the seedlings
> which was hard to do as the seedlings grew more than a couple of inches.
> My tomato seedlings were doing OK but not as well as I wanted.  I can
> cram a lot more lumens (light) into the same space with compact
> fluorescents, and the seedlings I have produced this winter really seem
> to be thriving on this simple set-up of only $7 per bulb.  I would like
> to have a 1000 watt halide system like Bernie, but I would also like a
> $1000 greenhouse.  Right now I am keeping my system cheap.  One thing I
> am going to try is Doreen's suggestion of adding a fan.  The seedling
> response to movement should contribute to hardening off the seedlings
> under the lights.
> -Mark Lee, Seattle, USDA cold zone 8a, AHS heat zone 3
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>Dave wrote . . .
>   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.
>
>
>
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