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By Doublebass1985
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Thanks, Ya they are all typicals I'm trying to get them looking as good as they did last year like these here
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By CRS4
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Joined:  Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:30 am
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The pictures of your lighting setup caught me by surprise! : ) What made you choose to do that instead of using a T5 fixture (4, 6, or 8 bulb) or even shoplights lowered down?
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By Doublebass1985
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CRS4 wrote:The pictures of your lighting setup caught me by surprise! : ) What made you choose to do that instead of using a T5 fixture (4, 6, or 8 bulb) or even shoplights lowered down?


You know I don't know really why I chose to do it this way other than I wanted to experiment with a ratio of 1 light bulb per plant that way the beam angle from the light bulb is centered directly onto the plant and provides maximum lighting intensity across the whole pot. Plus I guess it gives me more opportunity to individually tune it up for optimum results. I've been pretty happy with how well it does make the vfts grow the only downside is its very easy to dry the vfts out from all the evaporation going on and completely burn up my collection. Ive had to throw away half my collection because I watered the plants 12 hours too late and they were burnt to a crisp and the ones I could save were cut down all the way to the rhizome and they had to suffer a huge growth reduction from stress. They are all slowly , but surely making a comeback it just takes a while to get the results I had last season.




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By CRS4
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Thanks for your reply. Your pictures from last year are phenomenal! - I hope you can get the plants back to that state. I have been running a 4 bulb T5 fixture and I have had problems with it damaging some of my Sarrs and VFTs as well. I have done the light calculation as mentioned in the CP FAQ that Barry Rice posted years ago: http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq3400.html
and it looks like my setup was running 200-400% of what Barry was doing on his indoor setups. Oops. So I think too much light was the problem, although I can't be sure my plant sitter didn't let them dry out briefly while I was on vacation. I have raised my fixture up 2ft above the plants to decrease the intensity. Fingers crossed...

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