Beginner Gardening: Starting seedlings inside under grow lamps, 0 by sevseasail

sevseasail wrote:
Hi all !!

OK, this is my first time trying this.
I'm starting some vegetables from seed. This year I thought I start early as in previous years regretted not doing it. We have an empty room in the basement which is used for storage and I think it will work great for this. The room is heated and it has a ceiling fan to create air circulation.
I set a table using some old door as a base and hanged a shop light over the seedlings. The lights of choice here are some 48 " fluorescent tubes, the daylight kind, or 6500 Kelvin. The lights are on a timer which is set at 12hs on and 12hs off (Also read people having the lights on for 16 Hr a day).
Doing some reading learned that I might have to add another fixture next to the only one I have now, and also that I have to bring the light closer to the plants, but I don't know how close to the plants, can anyone tell me??

Please, I appreciate every and all comments as I do not have any experience on this. I'm attaching a picture so you can see what I have so far.

Thank you !!!
Willy.