http://tomatolover.com/tomatoes-and-foot-candles/ Learning to Grow Tomatoes Thu, 17 May 2012 16:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://tomatolover.com/tomatoes-and-foot-candles/comment-page-1/#comment-2056 Cal Thomas Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:20:21 +0000 http://tomatolover.com/?p=1402#comment-2056 sally - tnx soooo much for the info. I am an avid gardener in central florida and want to find out the foot candle req for all common veggies as i am planning a hobby screen house . I have a good light meter left over from some indoor orchid days and i got some scrap pool type screen from a neighbor to play with tomorrow. It appeRs it reduces light transmission by roughly half. I do have some 70 -and small piece of 50 % shade cloths i have dabbled with. My tomatoes can get sun burned scalded and many ruined in both spring and late fall crops. Do you have any links i could search for lux or fc reqs for other veggies ? You have helped me a lot today and i kmo you did this info almost 2 years ago so hope you get this ok. Cheers and thanx for your humor and info . Ur pal cal sally – tnx soooo much for the info. I am an avid gardener in central florida and want to find out the foot candle req for all common veggies as i am planning a hobby screen house . I have a good light meter left over from some indoor orchid days and i got some scrap pool type screen from a neighbor to play with tomorrow. It appeRs it reduces light transmission by roughly half. I do have some 70 -and small piece of 50 % shade cloths i have dabbled with. My tomatoes can get sun burned scalded and many ruined in both spring and late fall crops. Do you have any links i could search for lux or fc reqs for other veggies ? You have helped me a lot today and i kmo you did this info almost 2 years ago so hope you get this ok.
Cheers and thanx for your humor and info . Ur pal cal

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