RE: no greenhouse question
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  • Subject: RE: no greenhouse question
  • From: &* B* <g*@netsurfusa.net>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:50:38 -0500
Usual stuff on using the lights, Kitty
	16 hours at night. Position the lights just above the plants for
heat and light. Do not burn.... Raise the light as the plants grow. You
already know all that "stuff" See if you can locate the bulbs with a strong
blue shift for most sturdy plants.
	
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens,LLC
www.munchkinnursery.com
Garden Writer - Photographer -  Lecturer



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Kitty
I do have a shoplight above them, could use some new bulbs.
What, maybe 16 hours a day?  Distance?

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Bush" <genebush@netsurfusa.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 7:03 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] no greenhouse question


> Kitty,
> Since your are always playing nurseryperson, why not purchase an
> inexpensive shop light and replace the bulbs with something like grow
> lights. Not all that much money involved and easy to change your
> circumstances with the plants. Will be there when you need it next and for
> seedlings.
> They may still get somewhat leggy, but they can be safely cut back
> and restarted when you have more light available. Although, depending upon
> what is naturally available in late winter...early spring...is seldom 
> enough
> for good stocky plants.
>
> Gene E. Bush
> Munchkin Nursery & Gardens,LLC
> www.munchkinnursery.com
> Garden Writer - Photographer -  Lecturer
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
> Behalf
> Of Kitty
> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 1:40 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: [CHAT] no greenhouse question
>
> Don't ask me why I did this, I had a reason.
>
> I ordered thirty  #1grade Sherbet Cocktail Phlox which arrived the other
> day.  I thought perhaps they'd hold a few weeks in my cool garage, 
> guessing
> 45-50 degrees but, no, when I checked yesterday they were poppin'.  So 
> this
> morning I potted them up in quarts (they were smaller than the #1s I've
> gotten from other suppliers), gave them a gentle watering in and set them 
> on
>
> the counter in the garage in front of the only window, which faces south.
>
> It's 26 degrees out, will be 14 tonight.  This is too cold for them to go 
> in
>
> my Florida room.  It's one of those old aluminum frame jobs with storm
> windows.  Drafty, cold as the outdoors except when the sun shines.  In 
> March
>
> I hope to put some risers on the cement floor and move the pots out there.
>
> But for now, is there anything wrong about keeping them in the garage? 
> Will
>
> they get scraggly without a lot of sun?  How soon, at what day/night temps
> would it be safe to put them outside?  If they do ok I hope to bump them 
> up
> to trade gallons at the end of March.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
>
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