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Old September 25, 2006   #69
feldon30
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Originally Posted by sirtanon
My setup currently is (3) standard 4-foot double bulb fluorescent fixtures.

Each fixture has one Phillips Cool Blue Plus bulb and one Phillips Daylight Deluxe bulb. The light spectrum seems pretty good and the plants are growing nicely.
Same here. 2 fixtures with a blue and daylight light bulb in each. Once the tomato and pepper seedlings were out of here, I started 2 4' long planters of lettuce which are producing very well under one of the fixtures (the other fixture is put away).

Very cost-effective. Just keep the fluorescent lights VERY low, so the leaves of the tallest seedlings are almost touching the bulbs.
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