Re: Any experienced Metal Halide Users
- Subject: Re: Any experienced Metal Halide Users
- From: h*@open.org
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:47:09 -0700
Andrew:
>Anyone have any experience with Metal Halide lights for growing
>seedlings?
You've gotten some good advice on using a lighting system for your
hostas, but I have another question - why all the effort? May years
ago I tried growing lilies and daylilies indoors during the winter in
the hope of speeding up their flowering. Basically, it didn't make
much difference.
The way I see it, the lights are going to cost you anywhere from $500
to $1000 to run for a year and chances are most of the seedlings you
will be growing will end up being turned into compost anyway. That
makes from some very expensive compost. From a practical point of
view you can only grow a limited number of hostas under lights. You
can grow thousands of times more seed outdoors and with decent
fertilizering and weed control you should be able to do a decent
selection after the first year. Growing the seedlings outdoors may be
slower for what you want to do, but you compensate by growing a lot
more seed and after you get the cycle growing there won't be any
difference between growing them outdoors and trying to force them
indoors.
Joe Halinar
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