Many garden vegetable necessitate six to eight hours of full sun each day to boom , flower and do fruit . Reproducing the effect of this amount of sun with hokey light sufficient to develop tomatoes , capsicum pepper plant or eggplants is closely impossible – and prohibitively expensive . Leafy green vegetables like boodle , spinach , microgreens and mesclun mixture grow in less than full sun , as do smaller , swiftly - spring up root harvest like radish and baby beets or turnips . These low-toned - light vegetable crops can all be grow under artificial lights under the correct conditions .
Step 1
Place one warm and one cool florescent tube-shaped structure in each florescent lighting fixture . Hang the fixtures from adjustable string over waterproof shelving in a location that will remain at a temperature of at least 65 degrees F throughout the day and night .
Step 2
secure all of the florescent sparkle into a multi - plug electrical outlet reference , and plug the extension into a light timer .
Step 3
Mix 4 parts potting medium with 1 part well - aged compost . Water well with rainwater until it is a crumbly texture . bestow 1 tbsp . powdered kelp to each gallon of pot mixture .
Step 4
occupy come tray and 1 - gallon glasshouse pot lightly with pot mixture . Do not thick grunge . Let the soil settle in the containers over night , then top off the containers with additional dirt intermixture .
Step 5
Plant ascendent crop vegetable seeds in 1 - gallon containers , to the depth recommended on the seed packets but at only two - thirds the recommended horizontal spacing . Plant leafy veg seed in ejaculate trays at the depth and space recommend for each mixture on its seed mail boat .
Step 6
site the containers on the shelves , putting all the seminal fluid tray on one ledge and all the 1 - congius container on another . rate clear plastic seed tray insure over the trays and clear shaping food shop or take - out food container spread over over the 1 - gallon pots .
Step 7
Adjust the florescent igniter fixture so they are as close as potential to the container cover without touch them . employment shims to raise the container if you may not get the lights close enough . flex the brightness on and leave them on 24 60 minutes a daylight until the come germinate .
Step 8
Carefully slew the trays and container out from under the lights every third Clarence Shepard Day Jr. to irrigate them . Use rainwater to avoid salt physique - up in the grime .
Step 9
Set the light timer to keep the light on 16 hour per day once the plant shoots emerge .
Step 10
Remove the covers when the veggie plants gain the top of the clear plastic covers . Water as necessary to preclude the plants from entirely drying out . Raise the brightness level as the plants grow , keeping the florescent tubes as close to the tops of the flora as possible .
Step 11
Transplant leafy green veggie to individual 4 - inch pots when they are about 3 inch tall . fertilise all your indoor vegetable seedling with Pisces emulsion or compost tea leaf once a week .
Step 12
Harvest all vegetables uprise under contrived lights at the baby point – when root vegetable are about 1 inch to 2 inches in diam and leaf vegetable flora are about 6 in high .
Tip
Use contact report or non - toxic pond sealer to cake your indoor vegetable grow shelves . shelf that have not been waterproof are likely to collapse at some point in the growing season . Select vegetable varieties with very light growing seasons noted on the ejaculate packets . Short - season and fast - spring up miniature variety do best indoors .
