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    This was sent HTML and now I'm resending it "normal" style, sorry for
the mistake gang!


    Some tips for flourescent lights:

    (A) Leave them on 24 hr. a day and rotate plants under for 12 hr..
shifts.
    The bulbs and ballast last longer by as much as 35% if you don't turn
them
    off and on every day. This also lets you have more plants at on time.
You
    can make a cart with castor or use a wagon to take the hassle out or the
    shifting.
    This is also a good way to root cuttings... I've had decent luck using a
24 hour light box made with a 4-bulb garage fixture, enclosing it in
reflective mylar, and setting the cuttings in clips or rockwool cubes in a
growing solution set over a bubbler and a supporting grid made of the old
plastic grid you used to find on cheesy fluoro fixtures in offices... the
idea is you keep the rots partially suspended in the oxygenated solution,
and the lights stimulate the plants to set roots, so I heard... anyhow, it
worked nicely, especially if the cuttings were taken from soft stock. Still
have to set one of those babies up here tho, so I'll keep y'all posted as it
progresses...

    Diane

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