• DIY

    DIY Grow Lights

    By Dave Prochnow Posted on 1.15.2009 35 Comments

    As you huddle inside your home this winter cursing the gloomy darkness, remember that you’re not alone: The season has an even worse effect on your plants. Many common houseplants need far more hours of light than they get naturally in the middle of February, especially if they don’t have direct exposure to a sunlit window. Although the incandescent and fluorescent bulbs most people have in their homes will keep plants alive, they don’t emit light that’s within the temperature range necessary for optimal, or even adequate, foliage growth in light-hungry plants.

    2.1.2009 at 08:12pm - Comment by stanhbaker

    Great project idea. Why incomplete information? s/Stanhbaker

  • Science

    Juicing 3.0

    By Posted on 7.14.2008 8 Comments

    7.20.2008 at 08:35pm - Comment by stanhbaker

    No need for so called athletes to take the drugs. Make the awards annually to the drug producers the have the most performing enhancing products in each class for the previous year. Why have a performance contest of juiced up drug addicts putting on a show. How silly can the public become? s/Stan



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