I noticed tonight that we have several dead or dying plants in the Bio area.
I also noticed that a plant located where I put a sprig of chocolate mint is going crazy. Did someone replace the plant I put there, or is that the same plant? It has become leggy, stretching out into several long, spindly strands with few leaves. I don’t know what to make of that.
They appear to be suffering from insufficient light density and intensity. Leaving the light on 24 hours won’t help.
Light falls off at the square of the distance, so move it closer.
We use a light for a container lemon tree inside our house. We set it in a timer so that it does through a cycle of day and night. Would that be helpful the plants at the space?
I harvested the peppers from the tree/shrub. Dehydrated them and was going to bring back the powdered form for us to try out.
If the plant itself is in the way feel free to toss it. I have seeds to grow new plants.
I guess it is kind of dark in there. We could lower the light quite a bit:
How close could we lower it without burning the plants?
I’ve read that some greenhouses actually attach the LED grow lights directly to the leaves of their plants.
Here’s another view of the tray:
I don’t think it is in the way, but maybe we should find a better place for it?
We have some timers that Mr. Groves picked up for us, I just haven’t attached them to the lights yet because I haven’t had the time to do it.
The lights could stand to be lowered, but I am worried about burning things up.
I’ve started to have a real hard think about lighting and the more I read up on it and the more opinions I listen to the more inclined I am to just hijack a parking space outside once the weather improves and just aquaponic garden out there.
The sun is free and covers all the spectrum requirements…etc. I mean…they did evolve to grow under the thing.
Maybe the interior bio area will just be an overwintering zone? What do you think?
I get the feeling this issue just isn’t going to go away with the lighting. It’s the one variable I think is holding us back the most.
I wouldn’t move the HID light closer. It would get too warm. I think they get enough light and as above, a break of at least 4 hrs of dark(er) wouldn’t hurt them. I finally bought an LED grow light that gets good reviews and was not too expensive. It appears to be really well made. I’ll bring it up when I can. It is half the watts of the HID and puts out twice the lumens and supposedly in the so-called photosynthetically active region. And it has the same heat output at 1/2 inch as that HID has as about 3 feet, that is, no infrared.