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Because of the occasional cloudy day, the south facing window I was using will likely not be as effective as a proper grow light station. I did not take photos of the process of making them since we can all do it whichever way we want, but here are some photos where I can explain how I did mine.
In this first photo you can see there is a piece of wood that the light fixture are bolted to, in that piece of wood are two hooks and a chain goes from hook to hook to make it easy to center the light fixture such that it is level. One link of a decorative chain that I had handy connected the chain holding the light to a rope. The rope is in a fixed tie at the back while the front is adjustable to raise and lower the light. right side of grow light
On the left side it is the same thing, this way I can raise and lower the right or left side differently. In some cases the tall seedlings are very different in height from the short seedlings so by having the left side higher than the right side the plants can be arranged accordingly. A further update that isn't in either of these photos is that I've put the shiny side of aluminum foil all along the back. Next is to add the foil to the sides and have a removable sheet on the front to reflect all of the wasted light back towards the plants. left side of growth light
So here is an image from after I added aluminum foil to the back. I still want to do the sides and front, but I hope to be taking these guys outside soon, so I won't bother until next spring. aluminum foil backing
Here I am showing you the small fan I have hooked up - this is to help harden the stems as there is almost always wind outside. The fan rotates left and right and is on the left side since the left side of the light is higher up and that is where the more mature plants go and it is the more mature plants that need the strongest wind. The power bar you see there has the lights and the fan plugged in, the power bar is now on a timer that is set to run 15.5 hours per day. fan at growlight station



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