Growing under LED light

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Tomato fruiting - with led shoplights

A few months ago there was a discussion here as to whether we could use the BOX STORE - LED SHOP-LIGHTS to get veggies past starter plants. My experiment was to determine if we can do this through a New York City winter . I used 4 48 inch Home Depot LED shoplights that I had (4200 Lumen/4000Kelvin $29.99 each). I re-purposed an old plastic shelf unit. The seeds were panted on December 15. The varieties are : Early Girls and Gardner’s Delight Cherry Tomato. The lights are on 18 hours a day. …