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[INDOOR-GARDENING:175] Re: New Atrium garden needs big help

Wanda,

One of the first things you're going to have to work out is your light
problem.  Not enough light and plants "will lean" toward the light, trying to
get the amount they need to develop into gorgeous specimen plants.  You can
read a plant just like reading a palm.  They're trying to tell you something.

For instance, we grow mandevilla in the greenhouses in full sun in mid winter.
"Under your stairs" needs much more light for almost anything I can think of.
The obvious reason most of you plants look thin and spindly is due to
insufficient light.  We use fluorescent lights against walls in our
greenhouses.  For maximum growth and plant health these light are only a few
inches above the tops of the plants.  Your light being some four feet from you
light garden and with not much light from your northwest, indirect lighted
windows is in all probability just not doing the job.

Warm Regards,

Jim McKinney, McKinney's Glassehouse
Gesneriads, Begonias, Orchids, Diminutive Terrarium Plants, Terrariums, And
Other Rare and Exotic Tropicals
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