Climbing spinach is up and so is vanilla grass and also fountain grass,
still waiting on others to sprout.
Wilma
Seeds are up
Wilma, what kind of lights do you like for starting from seed?
Shannon
Shannon
I just use natural sunlight,
Wilma
The best kind. Our south-facing window is partially shaded by some evergreen trees, and it's not sunny here often enough anyway. Although, my one brug seedling seems to be making do, so far.
I think I'm going to have to knuckle under & buy some Floralight wide-spectrum tubes. Not the stands - those are too darn expensive for me right now....can probably rig up something home-made.
Good luck with the seedlings!
Shannon
spklatt, I grow thousands of little plants under lights in my basement, and I use regular old 4 ft. fluorescent fixtures and bulbs. I keep them close to my domed flats and run them about 18 hours a day. They do just fine until I can get them out to the greenhouse in late March or early April.
Good to know... I thought you had to have a wide-spectrum bulb, or at least a combo of warm & cool. Regular fluorescents would be great.
There may be some benefit to full spectrum. I use a big haloid for my begonias, etc., but for seed starting, the fluorescents seem to work fine, and they are much cheaper. I have 48 4ft. fixtures which means 96 bulbs. I could never afford full spectrum lights for all those.
and does your local hydro company come check out that you're only growing these plants and nothing illegal? LOL
No, our light bill goes up from $230 to $300, and they don't think a thing of it!
geez, around here the cops come looking for a gro-op if the hydro company sees a spike in hydro use.
Holy Crow Weez! I love your set up. Please keep us posted with pics as they grow. Joelle BTW have you started everything, or more to come?
I've been working my seedlings this way for the last three years or so. It's a juggling act to get them up to size, then out to the greenhouse, then out to the coldframes, then out to the tables. If all goes well, they are ready for local customers to buy and take home to plant without hardening them off. At some point in the operation, I start to get a bad case of anxiety when I see all those little plants waiting for transplant. A container that is 4"x7" can become 3 or 4 flats really fast.