With the seasons changing soon and winter on the way, it is time to start setting up the grow room. That way I can get a jump on growing for next year starting some seeds early. In the next few months my many pine seeds will be ready for sprouting. And they will be under these lights until I can move them outside next spring.
Other seeds will be started around January to get ready for a early spring planting, and other seeds will be started closer to February or March depending on how long it takes for plants to grow.
I have a bunch of florescent tubes I hung up under shelves. I can grow seedlings up to around a foot tall before they touch the lights, usually just big enough to be ready to go outside in the spring.
These lights are not the best way to do this, I could buy some nice LED grow lights. But I am using what I had laying around instead. When these burn out I will probably do that.
It is so nice having a spot to do all this in, where I lived previously I took over the food pantry to start seeds. With more space now I can do this in the basement in the utility room without taking up important kitchen space.
Soon we will be filling trays with seeds and probably all of the space will be filled with seedlings.
With so many kinds of lights, some the mogul base CFLs other are tube types. Just things I had left over.
Hopefully all of this will be running on solar, so its just free energy to me to run all these lights indoors. During the winter we should be using less power so I think its possible. But my grow tent uses a lot of power, so we shall see.. I am sure it wont cost that much to run them even if we dip into a grid a little.
Nice start there. Do the LED lights mimic sunlight enough to be effective? I have wondered that. I know you can change the temperature of them, but I didn't know if that actually helped with the growing.
Yeah I think so, they make some specialized grow lights for plants using LEDs.
Interesting. I just assumed the UV wavelength was different between incandescent and LED, but I don't know for sure, so I could be totally wrong.
Seedling is good for new plants for the coming winter season.
Yep, cannot let the winters slow me down.
Wow, you are so determined to get your targets in winter.
Sure looks like you are wow! love it!
Hah yeah man getting r done
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STOPI really like your shelves.
Those must have been expensive with all that wood.
There's nothing wrong with using what you have. Though LEDs would use less power. It's fine to slowly replace them as you can. Especially if you find something on sale!
Oh thanks, they came with the house luckily.
Yep that is the plan.
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How great that you are preparing everything for the seed sowing season. You have an excellent planting location, which means that you will have a good production of vegetables.
It is a good idea to replace the existing lights with LEDs. I think you will have a better yield.
I wish you much success.
I am going good thank you, yep it is time to prepare. Thank you
You can grow a lot of plants, nice set-up.
Our bathroom has a huge tub that nobody uses, my husband set up an area to start plants from seeds in it, he used a metal shelf that he hung lights from then he used insulation board, the stuff that has a foil look to it on both sides, he enclosed it in that stuff. He made one side a door. He had started a lot of plants from his little set-up. He also took fans out of old computers and rigged them up to blow into it.
Thanks, oh cool yeah that works. I would use computer fans as well for many projects. Used them in a car project to cool down some car amplifiers once. Its nice when the car runs on the same voltage and on DC just like the fans.. lol
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Your plants will be excited about the area.😊
hehe I think so
They will.😁😁
Now that's one interesting room to spend time in! Love how seriously you take your job in there :)
Yep, during seed season I spend about 30 minutes to an hour in there a day keeping up with all of them.
thanks
Nice!
The preparation is enormous and with so much on ground already, the plants will get on to a very good start.
Are you a full time gardener?