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title: "A note on grow lights. This and a huge number of plants spent July…"
description: "A note on grow lights. This and a huge number of plants spent July 2023 until now under supermarket fluorescent lights. It was an important lesson in to help…"
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community: "Equipment & Materials"
author: "Dave_opuntiaface"
published: "2024-02-03T17:44:10.178015Z"
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# A note on grow lights. This and a huge number of plants spent July…

_Posted by Dave\_opuntiaface on 2024-02-03_

A note on grow lights. This and a huge number of plants spent July 2023 until now under supermarket fluorescent lights. It was an important lesson in to help my lighting paranoia. Did they thrive? I don’t see much growth on any of them, but some of the remaining blue columnar plants are still blue blue - a bit pale, but blue.

I spent some time reading about the lights I have in my kitchen, and with that, the lights are now on a timer, as well 💡

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## 2 comments

### Sunny commented on 2024-02-03

I’m always amazed that the plants in the store live on just fluorescent lights. I noticed how dark the indoor garden section of Lowes looked with the plants jammed together. The plants look good even in the dark corner and lower shelves.

#### Dave\_opuntiaface replied on 2024-02-05

I asked the garden area clerk about it last year because I assumed there had to be another system. Nope

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