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Seedlings can be grown well indoors
Last year about this time I wrote
a series of articles about how to
start flower and vegetable seedlings
yourself indoors. And since it’s get
ting to be that time again, I
thought I would run them by you
again. So, here's the first one.
Many of you have probably
wanted to have the pleasure of start
ing your own seedlings indoors and
transplanting them into the garden
later. Some of you may have al
ready tried it, but with only
marginal results. Well, there is
good news-you can get a jump on
spring, for seedlings can be suc
cessfully grown under fluorescent
lamps if the right conditions arc
met. Eliot Tozer, writing in the
February, 1985 edition of Country
Journal, tells how.
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Meek
Candace Marie Meek was bom
on January 8 at Perry Hospital to
Brenda Gail and Frederick L. Meek
Jr. of Warner Robins.
Glasscock
Jake Edwin Glasscock was born
on January 12 at Perry Hospital to
Karen and Gary Glasscock of Perry.
Grandparents are Sevcrne Reed of
Valrico, FI. and Paul and Lurlcne
Glasscock of Robbinsvillc, N.C.
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Sendek on Gordon
College Dean's List
Joseph Steven Sendek of Perry
was recently named to the fall quar
ter Dean's List at Gordon College
according to Dr. Jim Richards, vice
president for academic affairs.
To be named to the Dean’s List at
Gordon College, a student must
maintain a 3.5 higher G.P.A. and
be enrolled in 12 or more quarter
hours.
Gordon College, a two-year unit
of the University System of
Georgia, is located in Barncsville.
Rackley and Lowery
on GC Dean's List
Ginger Marie Rackley and Anna
Mittuch Lowery, both of Kathleen,
were named to the fall quarter 1992
Georgia College Dean's List, Dr.
Ralph Hemphill, vice president and
dean of faculties, announced today.
To be selected for the Dean's
List, a student must earn a mini
mum 3.2 grade point average on 12
or more hours of work attempted
for the quarter and have at least a
2.5 cumulative grade point average.
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serve our
nation
Army deploys
Gloria Pitzer
to Virginia
Marine Pfc. John H. Pitzer, son
of Gloria A. Pitzer of Fort Valley,
recently participated in a pre-de
ployment exercise with 3rd
Battalion, Bth Marines, 2nd Marine
Division, Camp Lejeune, NC.
The three-week exercise, con
ducted at U.S. Army Base Fort
A.P. Hill, VA, was designed to
prepare Battalion Landing Team 3/8
for their upcoming Mediterranean
deployment. Pitzer took part in the
training, which included extensive
live-fire training, land navigation,
patrolling and individual fight
ing/survival skills.
The 1992 graduate of Perry High
School joined the Marine Corps in
November 1991.
First, he says, let's dispel the
"sunny south window" myth.
Plants on a windowsill receive only
about a quarter of the outdoor illu
mination. This is not enough to
grow vigorous, healthy seedlings.
Secondly, since the sun's rays enter
the window at an angle, the
seedlings lean toward the light and
thus must be turned every day to
keep them straight. Also windows
don't provide much space.
A better idea is to use artificial
light and set up the temporary gar
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den on a table or bench. Put the
set-up anywhere you like-the
basement, kitchen, guest room-as
long as you can maintain the right
growth conditions there.
You probably recall from high
school biology that plants carry on
photosynthesis, a complicated pro
cess in which plants take chloro
phyll, light, carbon dioxide from
the air, and water from the soil and
make glucose, the plant's food. The
rate at which photosynthesis oc
curs, and thus the rate at which
plants grow depends on three
things: (1) the kind of light (its
color or wavelength), (2) its inten
sity (how bright the light is), and
(3) its duration (how long the light
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is available to the plant).
Photosynthesis is stimulated
most by light in the relatively short
wavelengths, which are blue, and
by the longer wavelengths, which
are red. Plants grow best under a
combination of red and blue light.
If you are thinking of using regu
lar incandescent bulbs, which are
strong in red radiation, and standard
fluorescent bulbs, which arc strong
in blue radiation, think again. The
problem is that incandescent bulbs
have some drawbacks. First, they
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are inefficient, only about eight
percent of the available electrical
energy being converted to light.
Most of the rest of the energy is re
leased as heat, as we'll see later,
temperatures must be carefully con
trolled to ensure good plant growth.
Also, incandescent lamps shatter
when splashed with water and arc
relatively expensive.
Fluorescent lights alone can be
utilized satisfactorily to produce
good plant growth. How? Stay
tuned next week for the answer.