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Artificial light and plant growth

Question:  What color of artificial light works the best in plant growth?
Lim

Answer:  Generally, a mixture of fluorescent and incandescent light 
sources works very well.  This produces a pretty good dose of all 
of the important wavelengths.  Either alone does not work as well.
Brian Schwartz

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