"George Shirley" > wrote in message
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> Janet Bostwick wrote:
>> "George Shirley" > wrote in message
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>>> Pete C. wrote:
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>>> 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.
Thanks for the info, George. I'll investigate further. My setup uses two
florescent and 3 regular 40-watt bulbs.
Janet