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Waquoit Mass

any suggestions on how to stop my new seedlings from gettin leggy in my greenhouse

4/6/2006 9:45:33 AM

Western NY

they need a light breeze to stay stocky.

4/6/2006 9:46:38 AM

[email protected]

Supplemental lighting & a fan.

4/6/2006 10:22:18 AM

Shut that crap you call music off!

4/6/2006 11:15:08 AM

Waquoit Mass

have lighting in the greenhouse no fan though huh will see if it works thanx skip you schmuck

4/6/2006 11:30:04 AM

Rhode Island

Hammer,
a little trick we use when they get a bit leggy is to either transplant into a bigger deeper container so that we can build soil up under the seed leaves or lacking larger containers you could wrap newspaper or heavy paper, etc, around the peat pot and fill again as mentioned above.

thanks for starting the seeds for our meet and greet.

Dick

4/6/2006 11:53:52 AM

Cologne / Germany

Where is the light? Should always be an inch or 2 above the seedlings (works best with a neon bulb, no big heat from that one). Never had leggy plants since.

4/6/2006 12:06:00 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Yes, getting the light close to the seedling is critical. Light falls off in intensity based on the distance from the light, to the square of that distance. Or in other words, if you have the light 2 inches from the plants in one case, and four inches from the plants in another, the plants at 4 inches are getting only ONE FOURTH the light intensity that the plants get at two inches!

I've found, over a long time, that for flourescent tubes, 2 inches distance is great. If you have big heat lamps, no...

4/6/2006 1:53:52 PM

SW Mo

you also have a measurable difference in intensity from middle to end of fluorescent bulbs. Middle is brightest.

4/6/2006 2:18:07 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

As an interesting thought, consider how seedlings come up when they come up naturally in your patch. The seed leaves stay very close to the ground, almost hugging the soil.......

4/6/2006 3:50:24 PM

Waquoit Mass

fluoresent light 4 inches from plants will put closer dave

4/6/2006 4:26:19 PM

Indiana

ask one of them brokeback boys how to do it Dave

4/6/2006 10:37:18 PM

Greene R.I.

your gay

4/7/2006 4:35:15 PM

Rhode Island

Dave your in a greenhouse...why do you even need lighting??

they're reaching for light...Just give em the natural they'll love it! Oh ya do what PAP said too!

4/7/2006 5:47:16 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Been watchin' some movies there, Tom? I don't know what your
problem is, maybe because I didn't want to give you my
500 Beauchemin? At any rate, respectable business people
shouldn't go throwing around bigoted and false remarks. At
least if they want people to do business with them...

4/7/2006 9:38:22 PM

Waquoit Mass

its ok beach i know your comin out of the closet as for you macari id get stuck in a line shack with you any day lol

4/8/2006 8:46:04 AM

Indiana

I wrote 11 words, and I get accused of watching movies, being mad about a trade, being a bigot, and making false remarks.....this is laughable


Big Dave....LMAO

Tom

4/8/2006 1:03:03 PM

Waquoit Mass

almost time to drop the seeds beach then it will all end

4/8/2006 1:45:09 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Tom,

According to your email to me, I guess this is some inside
joke between you and some others. OK, fine. I'm sorry.
This indeed was my mistake to react like this. It won't
happen again.

Cliff

4/8/2006 2:24:24 PM

So. Maine

Hey Dave, if your growing this year which seeds R U putting in ?

Al

4/8/2006 9:36:36 PM

[email protected]

Thoundth like big Dave ith full of Beachy theed!

4/8/2006 11:04:04 PM

Rhode Island

dont ask , dont tell lol
pap

4/11/2006 7:26:58 AM