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Old May 13, 2015   #18
crmauch
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I should say I do fertilize almost every watering, but w/ extremely weak solution (1/16th?)

Also when they first come up, I suspend aluminum foil from the edges of my lights. This (I believe) has two affects. Increases the light on the seedlings (reflection), and warms the trays up some.

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I think lower temps might have impacted my germination (I keep the house around 66 and since the forced air vents run through the basement, it runs about the same temp). However I haven't had the inhibited growth (and now the house is much warmer here). As to stand for my plants I have good sized metal shelving unit, Each shelf (in theory(except the middle shelf)) could hold 2 standard plantrays (they do hang slight off at the ends, My lights (shop light) are suspended from the shelves above (I drilled holes to support s-hooks, in which to have the shop light change suspend from.
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