Beginner Gardening: Please critique my setup, 1 by Suze_

Suze_ wrote:
IMG tags don't work here. To share pics, you have to upload them directly from your computer, and one per post. You will find the place to do this below the posting window (Image: and then Browse for what you want to add).

I did look at your pics though, by pasting the links between the IMG tags into my browser and/or going to your album.

You have major problems with the seedlings in front (looks to be your tomatoes) and this is because they are just too far away from the lights. Lights should be no more than an inch or two from the tops of the plants. Another problem is that they aren't directly under the lights either. Dropoff of light even just a few inches past floros (either from above or to the sides past the footprint of the fixture) is extreme.

What you show needs to have at least two fixtures to cover the area, plus plants need to be arranged from tall to short and the shorter ones propped up with something to get them close to the light.

Much of this stuff should really be restarted in my opinion, especially the tomatoes. Just too lanky to salvage, even if you were to bury stems and pot deep, etc.