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Very well done, show us your green thumb.

Freedom

THAT IS SO COOL !
I read somewhere that plants love music and someone to talk to them.

You have done a sterling job.

love
mezz

PS: imagine if everyone had a garden in their homes/units etc.... shit! maybe then we would all be free

What are you growing instead of what we call head lettuce? I'm going to start a few plants inside soon so they will be ready for the first of May.

Peace

What about the electricity bills? Why would one need to garden indoors away from windows anyways?

I guess if you can afford the electricty and you want to by pass Monsanto and have no garden or patio then why not.

That's good going Len, I've been looking into setting something up like that myself and have done a fair bit of reading into it. The winters here where I live are quite cold and long and the thing I miss most is my fresh organic tomatos. I simply love tomatos, I can eat them 3 times a day with every meal if they were fresh from the garden. I have to wait over 6months between our summers before I can harvest any after the season ends. Even though I pay top dollar at the greengrocer in winter for what we call 'Truss tomato' it's simply not as good as what I grow myself. I'd be happy with a patch of tomatos and some lettuce on the side for winter. I will look at setting one up after I leave the place where I live at the moment, which will be soon.

One thing I discovered when looking into this was that many emphasized that one should NOT allow the air in the grow room to remain stagnant, which makes sense. Recommending an oscillating fan in the room to move the air around and another smaller fan to continually pump fresh air into the room and a conviently placed outlet or exhust to take the (used)air out of the room. Thereby providing continual fresh air which drammatically aids plant growth and minimizes the risk of infective/destructive insect buildup in the room and on the plants.

I use to build photometric test equipment for testing all sorts of light fittings, better known as Luminaires. I was amazed to realize that even clear lense covers on fluorescent fixtures like the ones you have filter out over 20% of the output of the lamps. In some cases over 30%. It may pay you to remove those covers and leave the lamps directly exposed to the plants. Just a thought. Another thing that all commercial growers do is use HighPressureSodium lights instead of Fluorescent, they say it's much better for plant growth. They also say that when using Fluorescent lamps for growing plants that one should change the lamps every 3-6months because their light output drops dramatically after that period. One should keep away from so called 'Energy Saver' light fittings because all they do is use weaker transformers/running-gear that draw less current and provide LESS lumen output compared to normal running gear. In a way that is deceptive becuase you would think that Energy Savers only effect the power input of the fitting, but they also effect its output adversly.

Good going, you've done well.

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Nicely done, brings me back to my days growing marijuana indoors. Looks like you have a pretty good set up going there. Here is a little trick I picked up get a cup with vinegar than on top of the cup put a piece of cardboard or whatever with baking soda on top of it with a string or a wick going down from the card board into the vinegar. this simple yet effective apparatus will give off a steady supply of CO2 into your garden and help your plants grow big and strong. Throwing in an rotating fan wouldn't be a bad idea either like TJ said. but other than that looks like a pretty sweet garden you got there.

You will probably be ok with the Florescent lights you just may need to add more in the latter stages of growth. Adding an HPS of MH light would not be practical for your set up they give off a lot more heat and you would have to by a ballast and figure out a sophisticated cooling system if you just want to keep things simple and cheap stick with what you have they can do the trick your plants just won't be as large as if grown under HPS or MH light but the cost to run them is a far more expensive and you would have to change the lay out of your room.

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Excellent work congratulations, here is the light you really need though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwHrCa3ie88

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Hello Len.

Looks as though you have a jungle there ... Is there any room for u ?

Nice.................looks great, the plants look good.

Let me know how they taste.