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Rookie mistake quickly corrected but...

dhromeo
13 years ago

Hi, This is my second attempt in as many years trying to grow my own starters from seed. Last year I started my seed in only a sunny window, and I started them the last week of April.

After that massive failure, This year I purchased a 4' Fluorescent fixture and 2 40W gro-lux bulbs. My broccoli made it up quickly, as did my lettuce and cauliflower, but they got tall and spindly very quickly. I recognized this as too little light, and I bought a second set of 40 Watts, and lined both fixtures with aluminum foil to reflect more light. I used toothpicks to stake some of them, but I am wondering if the tallest are salvageable?

I think all but one of my lettuce starters are toast, they are growing upwards, but the stem takes a 90 degree bend to get the leaves pointing up. I have stared more broccoli and cauli and lettuce seed, and after 3 days a couple of the broccoli is up. Should I scratch the spindly ones and restart the seed?

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