Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Smokin' Joe

ever heard of grow-lights?


3,101 posted on 10/05/2014 9:50:18 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3077 | View Replies ]


To: maine-iac7
We had a relatively small tobacco crop where I grew up (About 150 miles south of the Mason-Dixon Line).

It only covered five acres.

Now, put all that under grow lights and pay the electric bill.

The further north you go, the longer you need to run the lights this time of year.

Where I live now, you can get nearly 16 hours of daylight in midsummer (48 degrees North), but in the depth of winter, those 16 hours are dark, and the sun never gets overhead. It is always in the South. That doesn't deal with heating the building, either.

3,103 posted on 10/05/2014 10:00:25 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3101 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson