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Re: Help -- what to do about my sprouts??

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You know if you use the idea of the fan, that might cool things down too,
plus toughen those little guys up.

I can imagine you might miss Oregon.  My dream!

Peg
-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia J. Santhuff <psanthuff@mindspring.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Thursday, September 02, 1999 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: Help -- what to do about my sprouts??


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>Peg -- Yes, I'm familiar with Sunset, having lived in the Emerald City
>(Portland) for three glorious years. (After 14 years away, I still miss it
>if I let myself.)
>
>>I read in a Sunset periodical (I don't know where you live, so I don't
know
>>if you are familiar with Sunset magazine, it is a bible to my friends here
>>in California)  anyway, they said that "seedlings get spindly if grown too
>>warm; they do best at about 60 degrees."
>
>Oh, brother, maybe that's it! It's cooler in here in the house, but it's
>certainly not 60 degrees. More like low 70s.
>
>>I don't know what to do to fix the problem.
>
>Me either. Find a nice cave somewhere perhaps?
>
>>Maybe you can try taking a sacrificial few and transplant like you would
if
>>they were doing fine.  See how they do.
>
>That's what I think I'll have to do -- just go ahead and plant them.
>
>Thanks bunches for researching this for me! I may try to move them to the
>basement (after I buy said gro-lights) where it's a few degrees cooler. I
>don't think the family would let me make the whole house a cooler for the
>sake of the seedlings.

>
>Patricia S
>
>
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