I just use 1 - 4' shop light per shelf which holds 2 - 40 watt bulbs - 3200 lumens per bulb. I also have the entire setup wraped in mylar, except the top to vent. i only use the top 4 shelves, due to this setup being in the basement. The bottom shelve i think gets too cold. I keep extra supplies down there. I have each shelf filled with plants. 90% japanese maple seedlings, dianthus cuttings, impatien cuttings, and some startings of hosta and other seeds. I am not using it to grow veggies. I made a mistake of cold stratifying the maples too early and i had to grow them thru winter... I can say they are not doing too well.. after about 4 months under these lights.. only about 25% have 6" of growth of more. The other ones are about 3" or less. I dont know if it has to deal with the ones growing more being more centered in the light or not..this is the first time with japanese maple seeds, so i have nothing to compare to. But my goal was just to get it thru winter until i can bring them out in a month or two. If i had the choice or the money, i would put a second 4' shop light. It seems like there is no such thing as too much light.. maybe too much heat..but in the winter, i don't think you would have that problem

Thanks writersblock - that's a great point. I'd planned on going stainless in the master but suddenly it started sounding a bit gray or something. Dull might be the word I wanted. I just ran so far away from chrome 10-15 years ago that it feels odd to be going back to it! :)

I'm always hesitant to download FF add-ons because I've had some cause browsing issues at certain websites. I'm curious about Stylish though, I've seen that you can change to some predetermined style that someone has created and I'm not interested in doing that with my page. All I want to do is change the font to something more pleasing to the eye and change the background color to tone it down a bit. Can I do that with Stylish? I've looked at a few videos and all I see is some format choices that I really don't want to use. Could someone tell me how to use Stylish to make my own choices of fonts and background colors?

I made Chicken a la Mer on Sunday to celebrate Marti Gras and served it over Dirty Rice. I cheated and used the boxed Zatarain's dirty rice. The Chicken a la Mer was enough work by itself. The Chicken and shrimp/crab sauce turned out great which was somewhat surprising since it's only the second time I've made it and the first time wasn't so great. Here is the recipe if anyone is interested. Chicken a la Mer