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Re: Starting seeds indooors.

Greetings, all happy gardeners again.	

	I have really appreciated reading all the replies to my original question on how to start seeds indoors. Now I am even more puzzled than before because i just can not figure out what I must be doing wrong. Like all of you have said, I have likewise used the standard florescent 48" lights over my plants and like I said before al the seeds have always germinated easily.  All my plants seem to grow as normal for the first few weeks, gaining their second and third sets of leaves, etc. However, when the plants reach a height of about 2-3", then they just stop growing, and in the next 2 months, they don't get any larger.  This has been true of Salvias, marigolds, tomato plants, pepper plants, broccoli.  The only plant that has ever grown well for me was the squash. But everything else, has always remained very spinally.

	I had thought that it could be my lights, and someone told me that I ought to be using regular blue grow lights, but then someone on the list here shot that theory and said the type of lights really did not matter.  

	I had thought that maybe I should be using a little fertilizer, so I used a weak solution of miracle grow, and the only miracle that I seen was, they did not die, but they did not grow either.

	Totally perplexed ????   But thank you all anyway for you responses.   

	Denny
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