Tropicals & Tender Perennials: A Cool House for my Brugs, 1 by GordonHawk

GordonHawk wrote:
yes...that red spectrum was a consideration also.. like an intense fall.. but if a plant gets too much red light, it will become tall and spindly. Blue light regulates plant growth, which makes it ideal for growing foliage plants and short, stocky seedlings.
Yes. I can stucco it or paint it to cut down light transmission.. but both would bond the pannels to the frames..and make it less able to be disassembled..
I know of light transmission of plastis.. basically fiberoptics.. [ but this pannel seemed so opaque..] I made [ OH..the 60's again ] a four poster bed..with the posts and the top rails of 4" square...solid clear acrylic.. the side
edges were roughed up..sanded... and I got the light to travel and glow along the roughed sides.. and the posts were compleatly clear through the oher two opposing sides.. Gells got the bed to glow in anycolor .. along with being also clear.. and I varried the strength of light with a rehostat...[dimmer]..the double bed and all sat on a chrome base.. This was designed and built an alternative to the clients request for a neon .. 4 poster bed...when I convinced her she didn't need 10,000 volts just an arms throw away.. in a moment of passion.. and it had a better quality of light...spacier.. and less honkey [tonk ] and we could easily varry the color of light.. It didn't occour to me then that I might be making her spindley also.. I think we were shooting for lucky...
just what ammount of light ..discounting color of light...should I be concerned with.... inside a dormant area... if I kept it a cool say 38*-48*F.. and should I be also concerned with color... at lowlight levels

the Flava x's are funny..both basically the same cross...but one has the fuzzy leaves of the sang genes..and is doing much better in the cold.than the same basic cross..but with the smoother leaves of the other parent.. The fuzzy seems like an insulating fur coat ot the Brug.
pictured is the flava cross with the fuzzy leaf..scarcely a yellow leaf where many the other brugs and the same cross with the smooth leaves.. have some mushey leaves from the 34*F w/wind that we've had outside here so far..

This message was edited Oct 31, 2008 9:17 AM