On May 4, 7:07 am, John Bachman
wrote:
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

23 watt (100 watt incandescent equivalent) CFLs work great.
23 watt PAR CFL reflector floods work even better, putting all the
light on your plants instead of burning your eyes. The enclosed
design is safer, too, reducing breakage and containing the
tiny little bit of mercury in case they _do_ break.