On Sat, 3 May 2008 11:36:12 -0400, Johnny Borborigmi
wrote:

On 2008-05-02 12:28:22 -0400, luckytiff02
said:


I have a bunch of plants on my room. this is the first year I have tried
to grow anything. so I don't know which kind of light to use when I take
them inside. I have a long hanging 'pendant lights'
(http://tinyurl.com/3rngzp) but I think its not good for my plants. I
really don't have much natural light coming through my windows. Also I
would like to know whats the best brands and others details about the
light fixtures.


Go to Home Depot or Lowes and buy regular 4 foot shop lights.
Inexpensive and it's all you need.

I used 48" flourescents for many years but last year tried the CFLs.
CFLs have a broader light spectrum than ordinary flourescents so I
thought that it was worth a try.

What I did not realize was that the smaller CFLs in a painters fixture
was much easier to get close to the seedlings. And when I have some
tall seedlings (tomatoes for instance) next to some short seedlings
(something recently started, I can direct one CFL down close to the
short guys and another close to the tall guys.

My results were excellent and I am using the CFLs again this year.

John