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Bill,
I'm not Souliere
but since I have 4-4' fixtures and each one is supported separately it
should be possible to adjust each fixture to the proper
height.
Charlie
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Souliere- I found that I was seeding again after several weeks of growing
my tomatoes, etc. I could not get the lights down close to the plants like I
could for the first group (by then the first seedlings were several inches
tall). What do you do to get the light close to the newest seeds? Prop them up
on something?
bill missen.
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> My seedlings that I start in there do just fine except some
tend to get
spindly and leggy. Dwayne
There are a few ways
of helping this problem.
1) Keep seedlings as close to the bulbs as
possible. (a few inches at most)
Light energy falls off as the
square of the distance...blahblahblah, in
english,
the closer the
plant is too the light, the more energy it will receive.
This
should
help avoid being leggy. (won't prevent it, just helps)
2)
Rotate the plants around every day or so.
Plants will grow toward the
light source, if you rotate the plants every
day they will grow in
different directions, this will encourage better
development.
3)
Run an oscillating fan over the seedings for a few hours each day.
Plants
in nature have to deal with breezes and winds etc, they develop
thicker
stems and this also helps against some predators (Cutworm).
Some books
recomend touching or petting the plants to encourage
this same
effect. I find that the oscillating fan on a timer accomplishes
the
same thing and also helps a little bit with damping off. The
fan
does cause the medium to dry out faster, good at the surface
to
avoid damping off, bad if you let it dry all the way
through.
This works for me in my basement in Lincoln
Nebraska,
your geographic location and or weather means
what works for
me may or may not be appropriate for you.
- Ron
Souliere
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