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Tomato seedlings not straight

8 years ago

Some of my tomato seedlings, especially ‘Opalka’ are not growing all that straight.

I thought it may be lack of light, But they are only about 3 inches away from the T5 grow light, and light intensity at plant level is around 3500 foot candles. Even right up against the tubes it’s not much better than that, in fact the distribution of light is worse, because you’re so close to the tubes, that the “in between” areas actually get less light than they do a couple inches down.


Basically because the cells don’t exactly line up with the tubes. I’m not sure if I’m explaining that well.

A few of mine did this last year, and they seem to end up OK in the end. Is there an actual cause for this? Or is it just something they do?

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