Help!!! I'm moving.
Arnold (Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:07:05 PDT)

Jenn:

Nebraska?, I grow some bulbs under High Intensity Discharge lights. I
had a stainless steel tray made about three by four feet with a 5 inch
side. I put a drain spout on one side of the tray and placed a cork in
it so I could drain the tray if that was necessary. The light
manufacturer will tell you how far the plants have to be from the
lights. I doesn't seem that the light is to expensive to run. We
purchased a new refrigerator at the time I purchased the light and the
saving on the new refrigerator was about what the light used. The
larger the light (watts) the greater the growing area. I use a metal
halide bulb and there is also a sodium vapor one. The colors are
somewhat different and the manufacturer can educate you on that.

I keep the light on ten hours per day and water so that the water runs
through the pots and two inches of the stainless steel tray are filled
with gravel. So it is a very big pebble tray. I have had narcissus
romieuxii flower as well as various tender arums. The arums were
somewhat of disaster due to the scent when the flower opened.

Arnold