Re: Pumpkin Lighting
Frank,
Never had any results one way or the other. The lights are extremely hot
as you might imagine. As I recall, I had them about 6 feet away from the top of
the leaf canopy. The bulbs were 1,000 watt coated supermetallarc . Lighting
experiments are not for the faint of heart (moneywise). As I recall the bulbs
were 75 dollars each and special fixtures are required (2or 3 hundred each).
One of my wild unproven thoughts was that by altering day length, I might be
able to ward off maturity in the fruit. The lights were fitted with a photocell
to come on during very dark, cloudy weather and also at night for a few extra
hours.
Wayne
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