Janet Bostwick wrote:
> "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:
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>>>> 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
>
>
It's the combination of the two Janet, a Kitchen and bath tube combined
with a daylight tube. Neither contains all the components of real
sunshine but the two together do. At least that was the theory and it
has worked for me better than just two daylight tubes. I tried that one
year to get some real data on which was best. The plants under the K&B
plus daylight tubes, grew quicker and more robust than those under the
plain daylight tubes.

In addition neither type of tube costs very much whereas the so-called
grow-light tubes are fairly expensive, or were when I was shopping for
them some time ago.