Grgfinney grow blog 2013
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What kind of light is that? Lookin good 
Edit: I did just notice something in the thread
starting your plants under "lights" share your experience
In the most recent photo it's hard to see if those plants are leggy or not, (maybe you did the practice of planting the plant lower so some of the stalk becomes the root) but in a previous picture (the germination one) the plants look kinda leggy, did you use any kind of starting nutrient?
Edit: I did just notice something in the thread
starting your plants under "lights" share your experience
In the most recent photo it's hard to see if those plants are leggy or not, (maybe you did the practice of planting the plant lower so some of the stalk becomes the root) but in a previous picture (the germination one) the plants look kinda leggy, did you use any kind of starting nutrient?
grgfinney
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They have 17watt grow lights at walmart for 10 dollars ,it is hard to tell from pic plants are less than 1/2 inch tall, just the angle i took the pic from makes everything look big the lights are 2ft long and about 1.5 in from seedlings
Boboro
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The seedlings look very good. I always take the covers off the lites. Do those serve a purpose. If not I would take them off.
grgfinney
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I was worried about the moisture getting at the lights they are inside small portable greenhouse and there is a lot of condensation in there
Boboro
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When you open it up a little Id pull um off. They kill a lot of lite.
grgfinney
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Week 3 update plants growing good,finally got seed for harrow velvet,big gem,md609 and got them started
grgfinney
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Received ytb and seed for growout got them started,ergo,poquonock and if I believe it said higo ,i know ergo is a burley and poquonock is a lab created conn shadeleaf but i cant find anything on higo what is it?
Looking good sir! One thing to note, I'm not sure how much of a problem you'll have with them. But I used the pots like you are using in years previous. When I'm hardening off my plants late spring with a fan running, those pots wick off moisture from the soil and can dry the soil out pretty quickly.
grgfinney
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I,m not going to leave them in there, going to transplant to dollar store styrofoam cups. I hope the permafrost melts pretty soon would like to start tilling
styrofoam cups will work well. i used them last year. and good thing removing them light covers,
i grew mine under the lights in the cups, till they got quiet tall.
here they are from last year, after they come out from under the lights, i like to introduce them to sunlight gradually, thus the one sided plastic, on my '' redneck greenhouse''
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i grew mine under the lights in the cups, till they got quiet tall.
here they are from last year, after they come out from under the lights, i like to introduce them to sunlight gradually, thus the one sided plastic, on my '' redneck greenhouse''
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grgfinney
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I may need to build one of those this year couple hundred plants growing
grgfinney
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I will be transplanting into plastic cups this weekend. I was thinking of mixing miracle grow potting mix, peat and a bit of manure.will this work well or not?
Seanz
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Is that a bit of overkill on the nutrients? Potting mix and manure. Not 100% but doesnt miracle already have a slow release fert in it Can you have too much goodness?
Read stogies 2012 grow log or look at Fisherman's grow log where I posted the excerpts from stogie's log. He trimmed his leaves instead of repotting and he even shows a side by side comparison of trimmed plants vs repotted plants several weeks later. It starts at post #31. It will save a ton of work and alot of money in soil.
grgfinney
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I think i did read that but we have long time before we can put them in the ground they will outgrow tee planting trays
bondo007man
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Love the grow log! I do have a question, How important are the grow lights? Will sunlight from a windowsill suffice? thanks for the help.
bondo,
If you have a southern exposure that actually gets a half day of direct sunlight, then the windowsill is adequate. A southern exposure with a shading overhang is not.
Bob
If you have a southern exposure that actually gets a half day of direct sunlight, then the windowsill is adequate. A southern exposure with a shading overhang is not.
Bob
grgfinney
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Been a busy weekend I got the old dodge pu running, staked out garden to find out how much room i need for 225 plants, transplanted 28 burley,28 keller,27 virginia gold, 22 bss,19 mcy and i had to get another little portable greenhouse to put them in i will have to take a pic of that someday
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