Re: [tomato] An interesting question....at least for me...
Orchid (Tomato@GlobalGarden.com)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:13:53 -0500
?<< Unfortunately, the gro lites don't
give appreciably more light than the plain old cheap cool whites. Stick to
the lower temps and you will have stockier, better transplants
When I said gro light, I meant any good light.....as far low temps and
basements.....well, that is something you generally won't find in Florida,
especially South Florida. We don't have cool rooms, (a/c generally set no
lower than 70 degrees), and we don't have basements because of the water
table. God forbid for a tornado, we don't have a basement). But in our
favor, I've got tomato plants with green fruit growing right now, and my
wife just made a stir fry dinner with snow peas we have growing in our
garden. No place is perfect.......it's easy to create a small heated area,
but it's not easy to CREATE a cool growing area in the sixties or lower.
Pete, South Florida, Zone 10
-----Original Message-----
From: ChuckWyatt/Md/Z7 <ChuckWyatt@compuserve.com>
To: INTERNET:Tomato@GlobalGarden.com <Tomato@GlobalGarden.com>
Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [tomato] An interesting question....at least for me...
>Hi Pete,
>
>>>Ahhhh, so what you are saying is, that the tomato plant doesn't require
>lower temperatures, the lower temps are suggested as a way to prevent leggy
>plants. But if we immediately put the seedlings under grow lights, do we
>still need to lower temperatures?<< Unfortunately, the gro lites don't
>give appreciably more light than the plain old cheap cool whites. Stick to
>the lower temps and you will have stockier, better transplants.
>
>As a parallel, have you ever seen a sapling spindle toward the sky until it
>breaks out of the cover? This is what the tomato seedling is trying to do.
>
>Good gardening,
>Chuck Wyatt
>