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How To Make Your Greenhouse Super Profitable

Whether you are using the greenhouse or plant-growing spaces. Basements, attics,
are growing plants in a special room or closets, windowless walls, utility
area in the home, regular attention is rooms-all become propagation areas when
essential to success with artificially supplied with fluorescent lighting.
lighted plants just as with sun-lighted These lights work on ordinary household
plants. current. However, before installing more
Try to keep daytime temperatures between than a pair or two of them it would be
70 and 75 degrees with the usual 10 wise to check with your electrical
degree drop during the night. Increase company to find out if your present
humidity by setting the pots on moistened electrical wiring can stand the
pea rock. Grow the plants in sterilized additional load.
soil. Water them regularly, according to If you need only a small additional
the needs of each plant. Spray plants propagation area, you may find it
with insecticide every second week, as a advantageous to buy one of the commercial
preventive. As plants grow, shift them to fluorescent light stands with two to four
the next larger sized pot. Leave the shelves. A model with three shelves holds
lights on flowering plants 12 to 16 hours two hundred 3-inch pots. There are models
each day; 4 to 8 hours per day for available with or without wheels.
foliage plants. PROPAGATION UNDER MIST
If the plants produce long willowy Plant physiologists have discovered that
foliage, they are too far from the a mist like fog of water keeps tender
lights. Set them on boxes or inverted softwood cuttings (cuttings from new
flower pots to boost them closer. If growth) in such excellent shape they
leaves turn yellow and hug the pot, "just have to root!" Under these
plants are probably getting too much conditions of either constant or
light. Move them farther from the lights. intermittent mist the cuttings don't wilt
With stationary fixtures, aim for 18 and there is a minimum of trouble from
inches between light tube and plant table fungus and rot.
to allow head room for plants in 4-inch There is a mist unit on the market that
pots. If you grow larger plants, fasten has been adapted from a larger commercial
the lights a greater distance from the mist-maker system. It's called the Mistic
table or, better still, operate them on a Bubble and is an excellent greenhouse
pulley so you can regulate distances to space stretcher. This is a system for
suit plants. rooting soft cuttings outdoors, in sand
As you experiment, you will find the under plastic with the use of
proper distances. Here ' is a rather electronically controlled mist. Harvey M.
general rule to guide you. Light-loving Templeton, Jr., Winchester, Tennessee, is
plants, such as gloxinias and many other the inventor of the system and the
tuberous gesneriads, cacti, coleus, and control known as the Electronic Leaf.
wax begonias grow best with about 8 With this portable system the plants get
inches between light fixture and pot rim. water automatically, as they need it,
African violets, rex begonias, and until rooting takes place. Then the
episcias, among others, thrive when space temporary greenhouse cover is gradually
is about 11 inches. Foliage plants, removed and the plants are thus hardened
philodendron, ivy, and cissus can be set to growing outside in the full sunlight.
18 to 24 inches from the source of light. The hemispherical shape of the Mistic
PROPAGATION UNDER LIGHTS Bubble is designed to let in light evenly
The most popular plants for propagating all around as long as the sun hits the
under lights are the gesneriads. Leaf cover. The plastic covering has a pigment
cuttings or plant divisions can be rooted cast into it to protect the cuttings from
by inserting them in your favorite excessive summer heat. The low capacity
rooting media-vermiculite, peatmoss, mist nozzle, using 1½ gallons of
sand, sphagnum moss, or a mixture of water per hour, keeps the leaves of the
these. You can speed rooting by putting a cuttings wet at all times, promoting very
transparent plastic "tent" over the pots rapid rooting.
or flats and placing them about 6 to 8 The Mistic Bubble is 4 feet in diameter
inches from the lights. Transplant the and has 12½ square feet of
small plants as they appear, which planting space-it will hold 1000 cuttings
sometimes is but a matter of 3 or 4 at a time. After they root the cuttings
weeks. can be sold or planted out to grow to
Tubers and rhizomes can be rooted by maturity. In the South, the Bubble can be
placing them on peatmoss, sphagnum moss, used throughout the year.
or vermiculite. Keep the medium moist and We are installing one of these units to
place the planting about 4 to 6 inches use for propagation of herbaceous plants
from the lights. As soon as sprouts show, and conifer cuttings, which we will plant
transplant the tubers to individual pots. out as a basis of a profit-making
Start any of the gesneriads from seed by nursery. We'll start by lining out
sprinkling the seed over sterilized, several hundred daylilies and iris plus a
milled sphagnum moss, sand, or few rows of evergreens. Later we may
vermiculite. Cover the planting with a include chrysanthemums (these too can be
pane of glass or slip it into a rooted in the Mistic Bubble), and a few
transparent plastic bag. Seeds will Azalea mollis, the hardy species, which
sprout in a dark, warm area (70 to 75 several dealers now carry and which can
degrees). As soon as you see the green stand our hard Minnesota winters.
flecks of new plants, place the planting I have described this system not only
as close as 3 inches from the light because I've had experience with it but
tubes. Here the seedlings will grow with also because its basic principles apply
amazing rapidity. By careful timing as to generally to mist propagation in the
fertilizing and transplanting, you can greenhouse as well as in a purchased or
have flowering gloxinias in 3 to 5 months homemade propagating case. Fog nozzles
and African violets in 4 to 6 months. for water lines are available for those
ADDITIONAL GROWING SPACE who wish to make their own setups.
If you want still more room, add Complete mist propagation kits are on the
fluorescent light setups to the dark market too.
areas of your house and turn them into




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