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harvesting A little harvest and starting off next years seedlings

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alistair

The last of the summer's pods:
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Serranos, Scotch bonnets, a rocoto, 'sizzler', aji rojo, aci sivri, cuban seasoning

Some of my plants have begun flowering now that I've moved them inside, and the 'holy mole' has 6 new pods growing.

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And as of this morning, this cupboard has 4x trinidad scorpion, 8x bhut jolokia, 8x chocolate hab and 8x peach hab. The lights are 2 18W cfls and the led growlight i made last year... we'll see how they get on.
 
I too concurr that those lights need to be A LOT closer to your seedlings :D

I wish you nothing but success alistair!
 
Go the chocky hab they have been neglected and bypassed too long.
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Nice set up dude but yes bring your lights right down or your plants right up and they will love you long time.
 
Or if you dont fancy moving the lights down due to them being screwed in place - move your prop up.

Dvds are pretty good for this.

Chris
 
Thanks everyone, and good spot with the lights being screwed in place Chris :)

I'm not sure I will do any moving closer to the lights though. The thermometer in the cupboard reads 26-30C which I'm happy with, so heat is not an issue.

And I'm not convinced by the 'light falls off as a square of distance' argument in this case. I shall now go into a long explanation of why & might be wrong ;)

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So we've got a big brown propagator, two bulbs, the 1st horizontal is the LED panel I made (which is mirrored perspex), and the middle horizontal line is an elevated position for the propagator.

Now, light from a point source falls off as 1/(r*r) because the surface of a sphere is 4*pi*r*r, as the distance is bigger the surface of the sphere expands etc. But the important thing (I think) is how much of the sphere's surface my propagator intersects, and the fact that the cfl tube is not a point light source.

The light I get with the propagator in the lower place looks like it gets about 50%-65% of the light the middle horizontal gets. So far, moving closer is good!

But if I add something reflective down the sides, then the 50% of total light lost there is back in play... and should lead to a more-than-doubling of light on the plants?

Light doesn't get absorbed by air, the light from the bulbs is just more spread out, so adding something to bounce it back again should be more effective than moving closer to the source?

The cupboard it's in is painted with highly shiny white gloss (doesn't come across in the photo), but something more reflective might help (I had foil last year, but it's a bit of a pain)

So, the long and the short is I'm gonna struggle on with my 'too far from the bulbs' approach and see how the plants do :crazy:

Of course none of this means I'm right, and thank you all for your help and advice!!!
 
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