"George Shirley" > wrote in message
...
> Pete C. wrote:
>> Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>> "Bobo Bonobo®" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>> On Mar 19, 11:13 pm, Cindy Fuller >
>>> wrote:
>>> snip
>>>
>>> To tell the truth, I've never been great at gardening, but the idea of
>>> growing my own food has always been darned near an obsession. The new
>>> LED grow lights offer the promise of practical basement gardening,
>>> especially raising tomatoes and chiles for future transplant. I also
>>> bought a rosemary plant for my garden. Fresh rosemary is so much
>>> better than dried.
>>>
>>> Michelle, you rock, and I hope you can inspire people to grow
>>> veggies.
>>>> --Bryan
>>> What LED grow lights? I'm still working with the florescent ones from
>>> the
>>> 60's.
>>> Janet
>>
>> LEDs are less efficient than fluorescent lamps too. There is some myth
>> out there that LEDs are more efficient, based probable on the lower
>> typical power consumption for the available units, however the fact is
>> that the lumens per Watt are lower for LEDs than fluorescents.
>
> I've been using fluorescents for years, they're on right now starting
> veggie plants for our garden. I use a Kitchen and Bath tube with a
> daylight tube to imitate actual sunlight and it appears to work. Read
> about it in Organic Gardening years ago.
I dropped my subscription to Organic Gardening years ago, so I'm not aware
of your configuration. Please explain how Kitchen and Bath tube
benefits/differs from the florescent lights. Thanks.
Janet