A big upgrade

on Fri, 02/05/2016 - 23:07

So this year I decided to put in a big upgrade to my seedling growing setup. I've been very successful ever since I added a nice big grow light over my seedlings. That led to a lot more extra seedlings, which meant a good amount of sales of my plants. Last year was a very good year, which meant some money left over after paying for all the expenses related to growing the plants. As such, I decided to put that towards an upgrade in my system.

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I've now bought a nice heavy duty shelf, three smaller grow lights, and a daisy chain cord so that I only need one power cord for all three lights. This will allow me to have a setup on the dining room table under the really big light as well as three shelves of trays. Each shelf will fit at least 4 trays, if not more.

I'm so excited about this setup, as it means all of the plants will have good access to light instead of me having to regularly rotate them so that they all get some time under heavy light and some under the outskirts of the light. The plan is to get this set up in the next week or so, as I'll be starting the peppers, tomatoes, etc. later this month. This will allow for even larger seedlings than I've been able to grow before, which would make them even hardier and more likely to better make the transition to outside.