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Get a Start on Healthy Seedlings with a Fluorescent Grow Light

I hear it all the time from gardeners disappointed in the size of their tomato plants mid-season. You can’t blame them. Fresh tomatoes are the highlight of the growing season, so it’s natural to get impatient waiting for them to grow and bloom. It’s also common to be a little disappointed if your tomato plants don’t produce the yields you’re expecting, especially soon enough for an early seasonal fresh salad. The key is to start growing seedlings early, well before planting season. A f Finish Reading this Post

Growers Face Tough (But Fun) Decisions

Volumes have been written about the hows whys and wherefores of indoor lighting for growing. Growers of all sorts of plants all swear by different sorts of bulbs and configurations. For those who are looking to buy light bulbs for indoor growing, here are is a basic primer on the different types of bulbs. Fluorescent lighting. These bulbs emit very little heat and a clean white light that is fuller-spectrum than incandescent bulb. Because the spectrum is broader and they are much more energy eff Finish Reading this Post

Electronic vs. Electromagnetic Ballast

For commercial and industrial use, fluorescent lighting has long been the standard because it burns cooler, uses much less power, and throws of a fuller spectrum of light than incandescent bulbs, which is much easier on the eyes because it is closest to the natural spectrum of the sun. But for all their efficiencies, fluorescent light bulbs do require extra equipment to regulate the flow of energy through the bulb that causes it to illuminate. A fluorescent light ballast regulates energy flow to Finish Reading this Post