From: Christine Weiss (bewise_at_hypertech.net)
Date: 10/02/02
Message-ID: <006901c26a5f$15fd89d0$3b0d1d0c@t3f2i7> From: "Christine Weiss" <bewise_at_hypertech.net> Subject: Re: Omega Garden - High-density gardening for small spaces/urban farming Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:00:09 -0500
> > And then, I'd like for this whole (aquaculture/hydroponics) thing to be
set-up
> > beneath a "greenhouse dome" -- Christine
> One of its basic principles is that all light comes from a fluorescent
> tube located in the center of the drum. I wonder how natural light
> would influence the growth, since it WILL overpower, by many
> orders of magnitude, the artificial source...even given its close
> proximity to the plants. -- Chuck Knight
One thing to consider about this, what we have here in the Ozarks during the
"autumn/winter/spring" season is a "sunlight drought."
Not that we don't have nice sunny days, but the number of crude hours of
sunlight are usually insufficient to produce vigorous "sunlight loving"
greenhouse crops without supplementing the ambient light.
:-)
Christine
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