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How to grow an Esrog plant in New York and cold climate areas
Ulli:
Heating mat:
jdl4ever:
I don't use a heating mat but simply use the room temperature of the house plus the special plant flourescent light gives off heat and heats up the mostly sealed fishtank at least another 5 degrees and it also is very humid in the greenhouse since it is mostly sealed. The 75 degree humid climate seems to be the optimum temperature for the seedlings since they are growing very fast and look very healthy. Soon I'm moving the seedlings out of the greenhouse since they will be too big and placing them in a regular room at room temperature with a regular 25W flourescent light on the ceiling on for 24 hours a day and hopefully they wouldn't mind the drier and cooler climate.
jdl4ever:
--- Quote from: Dexter on January 28, 2008, 10:26:25 AM ---Why do you call it Esrog ?
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I'm Ashkenazi and we pronounce everything wrong. :D We say Taf only if it has a dot in it. Otherwize, we say "Saf" and it sounds like "Samach".
Ulli:
--- Quote from: jdl4ever on January 29, 2008, 05:24:09 PM ---I don't use a heating mat but simply use the room temperature of the house plus the special plant flourescent light gives off heat and heats up the mostly sealed fishtank at least another 5 degrees and it also is very humid in the greenhouse since it is mostly sealed. The 75 degree humid climate seems to be the optimum temperature for the seedlings since they are growing very fast and look very healthy. Soon I'm moving the seedlings out of the greenhouse since they will be too big and placing them in a regular room at room temperature with a regular 25W flourescent light on the ceiling on for 24 hours a day and hopefully they wouldn't mind the drier and cooler climate.
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That your plants are fine is great. You should use a stronger light after you put them out of the greenhouse.
Look here this is great:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-vapor_lamp
It uses a lot of energy :( But is the best solution for healthy plants.
But you can do it with a regular fluorescent lamp too. But you have to put the lamp then near to the plants. Perhaps you can use a chain, which hangs from the ceiling. Then you are able to pull the lamp higher if the plants are growing.
Or put them near the window.
The plants need to are a few hours in darkness each day. I suggest you 6-8 hours.
But I never thought about using an aquarium for the first time. This is a great idea.
My neighbor has a store for garden articles. He told me that I have to wait up to two months until the grape-vine will grow.
I have grown until now black salsifies, artichoke, potatoes, grape vine (the cuttings are from the plant in my garden), tabacco (failed last year - the snails eat all little plants last year) and tomatoes (I had hundreds of tomatoes last year from only a few plants)
jdl4ever:
I like your plants. ;D I didn't think you could grow tobacco like that. I also grew tomatoes indoors but I found that they didn't transplant well outside since they suffered from climate shock due to the difference in climate and died outdoors; same thing happened with cucumbers so I buy the seedlings of tomatoes to plant outdoors since it is less trouble and I grow the cucumbers in pots outdoors and transplant them when they are big enough. The problem with the mercury lamp is that it is too expensive, it consumes too much energy. Flourescent lamps are the best to use as a 26 watt lamp produces as much light as a 100 watt incadescent bulb. I actually used only a 15 watt flourescent in the fish tank and that's how I grew the seedlings. Now I transplanted them to bigger pots with a 26 watt on the ceiling. Believe it or not, I had the best results this year since I never turned the light off but left it on 24 hours a day. The plants grew twice as fast. So I feel no need to turn the light off unless I want to stunt the plants growth when they get too big.
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