Wattage of light bulbs
Posted: Feb 02, 2003 6:57 pm
ok, so I thought I was make a change for the good, now I am double thinking myself..
Last year I had a 2-shelf set up (made ds's old changing table into growing station)....had 2 grow lights 33watts each. One light over top of each shelf.
Well the problem was, I found that one light didn't seem to give enough of a lighting range..meaning that I had to rotate plants every 1-2 days (or at least I felt like I had too) because I had areas on the stand that was less bright than the middle of the stand.
So this year (today actually), I decided to use them both on one shelf..spread apart of course to cover more of the shelf.
Now my question...is this going to be too much lighting for seedlings? will it be too warm? it will be basically 66 watts.
I have reflective covering all around station (aluminum foil)..should I still use this or take it down so that it won't hold too much light ? or reflect too much light?
TIA..
Last year I had a 2-shelf set up (made ds's old changing table into growing station)....had 2 grow lights 33watts each. One light over top of each shelf.
Well the problem was, I found that one light didn't seem to give enough of a lighting range..meaning that I had to rotate plants every 1-2 days (or at least I felt like I had too) because I had areas on the stand that was less bright than the middle of the stand.
So this year (today actually), I decided to use them both on one shelf..spread apart of course to cover more of the shelf.
Now my question...is this going to be too much lighting for seedlings? will it be too warm? it will be basically 66 watts.
I have reflective covering all around station (aluminum foil)..should I still use this or take it down so that it won't hold too much light ? or reflect too much light?
TIA..