Re: [CH] yellowing under artificial light
Love2Troll (Love2Troll@kc.rr.com)
Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:56:40 -0500
Karen,
More info from you is needed, but without more info, I can only guess. Am guessing that they don't have enough light or are drowning in too much water.
Are these plants that you took inside that had already been growing outside.
Did you repot w/new growing medium?
What brand, what wattage & how many of the lights do you have on?
6' away sounds way too far away for fluorescent lights unless you have many of them. That far away usually requires Metal Halide and/or High Pressure Sodium bulbs.
Do you have a fan?
I've grown under lights in my basement with and without a hydroponic setup. Not an expert, but am aware of the basics.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Stober" <kstober@us.ibm.com>
To: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 7:51 AM
Subject: [CH] yellowing under artificial light
> I bought the florescent bulbs that mimic the Sun and put muskmelons, basil
> and peppers under them. They are in the basement where very little natural
> light hits them. They started turning yellow after two weeks. I
> fertilized them. I leave the lights on even longer, twelve hours now, and
> the yellowing happened even faster. The basils and muskmelons appear to be
> lost. What am I doing wrong? The lights are about six feet up on the
> ceiling, the pots are on the floor. The melons also got a case of powdery
> mildew which didn't bother them to much.
>
> I lost a number of chiles. They just dropped leaves and never recovered
> when I brought them in. Also, two of the three Kaka Beaks withered and
> died within two weeks of coming in.
>
> Karen
> kstober@us.ibm.com
>
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