Al Dykes wrote:
|If I start cherry tomatoes in a 5Gal pot in the basement how do I
|light it ? I'd buy a 4 ft fluorescent grow lamp, put it vertical and
|rotate the plant every day. Do I need two lamps

Well, I just germinated two whole packets of tomato seeds overnight, and
all of the sprouts seem to be poking up green enough under ordinary
"cool white" fluorescent lights.

Are "grow" lamps really necessary for raising tomatoes?

Right now, the tomatoes enjoy warm temperatures because I made my
own miniature terrariums (terraria) out of clear transparent plastic
bottles, and the light comes through their walls where beams of light
are presumably captured in the high humidity of the terrariums.

At least for germinating tomato seeds, warm and humid is more important
than having fancy kinds of spotlights.