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Bulletin #2751
Grow-Light long description
 
This drawing shows a grow-light frame built of three-quarter-inch PVC pipe. The base is a rectangle. The long sides of the rectangle each consist of a four-foot-two-inch length of pipe with elbow joints at each end. The short sides of each consist of a four-inch segment of PVC pipe, followed by a T-joint, a six-inch segment of PVC pipe, another T-joint, and another four-inch segment of PVC pipe. These short sides attach to the elbow joints of the long sides to form the rectangular base. Rising from each T-joint is a vertical two-foot segment of PVC pipe with an elbow joint on the end. A four-foot-two-inch length of PVC pipe connects these elbow joints together, across the length of the base frame. A shop light is suspended from each of these two segments so that the lights hang above the plant trays, which are inside the base frame. The lights hang two to four inches above the tops of the plants.
 
 
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