Re: no greenhouse question
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  • Subject: Re: no greenhouse question
  • From: &* <k*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:07:37 -0500
Gene, thanks for your input. For the time being I dropped the existing fluorescent to a few inches above the plants. However, I just made the BOLD move and ordered a HID lamp. This one uses either HSP or MH, the MH being what I plan to use for now. Kind of excited. Makes me feel like I'm playing w the big boys now. Well, kind of, it's just one lamp. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net> 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] no greenhouse question



Thanks Gene; I appreciate your help.
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Bush" <genebush@netsurfusa.net> 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:50 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] no greenhouse question



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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