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Hello
 
my seed starting table is 4 feet long and about 2 feet wide.  I wraped it in plastic to form a sorts greenhouse.  The lights I have are two shoplights pop-riveted side by side with 2 GE plant and aquarium bulbs and 2 GE chroma sun-light bulbs all 40 watts each.  The chains that support the lights have s-hooks so I can adjust the hight of the lights.  My seedlings that I start in there do just fine except some tend to get spindly and leggy.  Other than that I have not had much problems.
 
Dwayne
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Charlie- Thanks for the info on lights. I just finished constructing a new seed-lighting table and will replace my 25-watt bulbs with 40-watt'ers for this spring.
 
bill missen.
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Well my continuing saga of what do for seedling lights is done. I have
brought 3 additional shop lights (I already had one) from wallyworld $7.45
ea. As far as bulbs I finally settled on gro-lux wide spectrum tubes from
Lowe's, they were $4.54 ea which made it slightly more than the 1 warm-1
cool I'd been considering. These bulbs are purported to last thirteen years
based on four hours a day so I figure 50 days at 16 hours a day they'll last
24 years (in other words they'll last longer than I will). Here's the
breakdown for the total light setup.

 4 shoplights.........@ 7.45ea = $29.80
 8 gro=lux tubes......@ 4.54ea = $36.32
40 ft of chain........@ 0.41ft = $16.40
Swag hooks & misc hwd............$11.00

Total............................$93.52

This should accomodate around 100+ plants.

Charlie


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