You are probably not following the same cultural methods as the commercial guys you want to emulate. Commercial growers supply PLENTY of light which solves much of the "stretching" problem. They pinch their plants at the right time or use chemical growth regulators (on certain plants) in a drench or spray (like B-Nine or A-rest) to keep the plants from getting too large for the final sale size. AND they fertilize with almost every watering by means of a fertilizer injector putting liquid fert. of the correct proportion into the watering system. The one with which I am most familiar is a Scotts product and the proportion and frequency will frequently vary depending upon what plants you are growing. You can get your own proportioner, although not as wonderful and expensive as the big boys use, but nevertheless very adequate and it's called a Hozon. This little baby screws right on to your hose bib and gives you a 16 to 1 mix. On the Scotts bag the correct mixing is written for the Hozon in the printed instructions so you can't go wrong. The Hozon will cost around $20 depending on where you purchase it and is only completely effective when the hose you are using is 50 feet in length or less. I see them advertised in various catalogs. Assuming that you are using a top-quality growing medium with the information I have given you here you should have no big problems achieving your goal. It would help you a bunch to do whatever it takes to educate yourself in plant propagation and cultural techniques. That would be a lot quicker and less expensive than learning from experience. Does this help you any? Bob

"Dilly mentioned that you can clean and disinfect the disposables- you should clean/disinfect daily regardless ifthey are disposable. However, it does not extend the life of the lens. 2 week lenses are just that, monthly lenses last a month, etc" Not true. Do you not remember the contact lens scandal back in the 90s? It was revealed that daily wear and extended wear disposables were the exact same lense - just priced differently. An optometrist broke the info to the public. "If you still need to take them out and clean them everyday, why get disposables? " Because you can wear them again instead of tossing them in the garbage. Disposables are cheaper than buying the expensive ones they sell and they are the exact same lens. Which would you rather do buy $600 lenses and clean them every day or buy $5 lenses and clean them everyday? The people that sell them used to try to tell consumers that the expensive ones "were more sturdy" and hold up for a longer time but they were the exact same lens. Soooo, some people bought *daily disposables* at a cheap price and tossed them after one use, and others bought the SAME lenses for gobs of money and scrubbed and disinfected them. http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/1999_07_09/noDOI.8539564656493553240 From article: A great example of pricing strategy being used brilliantly comes out of the Bausch and Lomb contact lens scandal. It turns out this company was selling two identical contact lenses at two completely different prices. They were selling "daily disposable" contact lenses at about $5, while selling the exact same lens as their extended wear lens, for about $60. It caused a huge scandal, but, when you think about it, who would trust an extended wear contact lens that only cost $5? And who in their right minds would pay $60 for a disposable? Read more at this site: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=207583 Here is a link that might be useful: Scandal

I apprecite the time y'all are taking to answer me. I will ask him about the additional cleaning to make sure it's fully ok. It looks like it is. I've now seen on another website (sorry, I don't want to be talked into disposable! I was merely curious for personal experience. Looks like I stand alone.), there is no degredation for a lens by the hydrogen peroxide cleaning. It won't work for disposables because they're so thin, it'd cause wear on them to give them the same regimen as daily wear. Daily wear are much thicker. They don't tear and degrade like disposables and can withstand the cleaning regimen. I will tell you, there's nothing going on with my eyes. Cheap materials are cheap materials that make for flimsy contacts. It's just my experience. They're not nearly as good as daily wear. Period. Conversely, if you ever want to give daily wear (permanent) lens a try, I am finding that the gel drops, give it that fresh out of the box, silicone hydrogel feel, without the poorer quality of disposable. But that's just my opinion. :)

The technology age may be a factor, Mary. I can't access places on Houzz from our older desktop. I certainly can't upload photos from it. Our computer is about the same age as yours. It was a cutting edge Mac at the time. Ha, ha. My husband ran Logic software and recorded music with it. Now it sits around and roars like a T rex, but my husband can still do music production, send emails, etc. There is a Houzz phone number you can call, too. I posted in on "[How to Contact Houzz Support Directly[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/how-to-contact-houzz-support-directly-dsvw-vd~5356515?n=8)." Our desktop runs on Snow Leopard. I think that one is too ancient for Houzz. Carol