Fitolamp - pros and cons, my experience

By fitolamp I'm indifferent, the effect is like. In order not to get carried away, I'll start with the arguments against fitolamp.

Minuses

• Fitolampy take place both horizontally and vertically, and the sills in overpopulated seedling period.
• It is not enough to buy a lamp, it is necessary to think about fixing the system and connection timer. I have a shelf for "pegs", and if not so, the stand will take a lot of space.
• Obtain substantial additional heating from above (one on the windowsill Africa, be careful!) On my cool windowsill is a plus for the germination and seedling grown up to minus, it happened singe fitolamp crown ...
• Substandard fitolampy - continuous negative. Money spent, hoping, and zero sense.

I first bought fitolamp, believing that it is screwed in place of the usual. Like this:

It turned out that we can not. It was written in the instructions: no lampshades! We checked out really quickly and terribly hot. Immediately cut off the ceiling and it was like this:

Fitolampy I have only two. Second I bought, when she saw the effect of the first. That's what I did:

• Immediately after germination fell under fitolamp tomatoes, petunias, peppers and other seedlings, except for fans of short days
• After picking a special lighting were favorites, the rest of the residual accrue to the light.
• Grown seedlings have not placed under a lamp, because you need to have at least 25 centimeters has been to the top of the younger seedlings. But her side of the residual accrue to the light.
• In the first year included fitolamp every morning but sunny days, on and off manually. In the second year, I set a timer for 14 hours of illumination for most crops normally.

Pros of personal observations

• Seedlings long stretched, was strong. Only when I cleaned the more increased the seedlings on the windowsill began regular stretching, but the fortress remained, the backup is not intended. Still, it's not like before, when all the stems bent and swayed. And the days were sunny and longer.
• All kids (shoots) love the heat, so the first couple I did not just fitolamp and fitonyanya.
• Petunias bloomed earlier, fruited tomatoes abundant, compared with the seedlings, which just stood on the windowsill.

The most surprising observation was that the tomatoes with mycorrhizal feel bad after germination under fitolamp. They became purple (phosphorus deficiency) and lost cotyledonary leaves. With the flowering and fruiting were no problems, but those early days just shocked.

More I do not play in the mycorrhiza. 2 years with her allowance, the desired effect was not. I wrote about it here

Who gave an example to show the idea: fitolamp is positive stress for the seedling.

Prior to that experimented with fluorescent light, there was no sense, but read many reviews supposedly good seedlings under such lamps is obtained. I was the same with them and without.

Why do we keep back about fitolamp, and how to choose them here

And how do you feel about growing seedlings with fitolamp?

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