Re: Light for Seedlings
- To: <propagation@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Light for Seedlings
- From: "* T* <t*@sprint.ca>
- Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 14:04:05 -0500
Good Idea, Thanks for sharing your
"Shift Work"
Penny
-----Original Message-----
From: raydale@kanservu.ca <raydale@kanservu.ca>
To: propagation@mallorn.com <propagation@mallorn.com>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: Light for Seedlings
>At 09:00 AM 07/02/99 -0500, you wrote:
><snip>
>>I'm going to have to start a lot of flats in the next couple of weeks.
>.... or can anyone suggest another way of getting strong light to a lot of
>plants in a relatively small space?
><snip>
>
>Alan,
>I don't have any design suggestions but, I can suggest a way to get twice
>the amount of space out of whichever plan you settle on.
>You'll probably smile ... it's so simple many of us miss it until it is
>pointed out :-)
>
>Put your flats of seeds/seedlings on shifts.
>12 hours of light for each shift.
>
>I leave my lights on 24 hours/day and check my seedlings twice a day. As I
>check for germination and moisture levels I change shifts. If you're a bit
>muddle headed (or have an uninitiated helper) you can always put the night
>shift in black trays and the day shift in white trays.
>
>Simple but, effective!
>Dale
>
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