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Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

I know they say red is good for tomatoes? This year I grabbed some rose colored bubble wrap out of the trash at work. I made my little greenhouses out of it. Compared to the clear, the rose ones have grown twice as much and are healthier and happier looking plants. The leaves are a darker shade of green. We will see what happens!! Shannon

5/21/2001 10:25:28 AM

Herndon, VA

The only thing that multi-colored plastic could do is filter out a particular spectrum of light. If your tomatoes grow better with the rose plastic, then the plastic may be filtering out a spectrum of light that they don't like. It could also be that the slight shading of the plastic was beneficial to the plant by keeping it cooler, with the actual color having nothing to do with it.

Was your clear plastic really clear, or was it a white or opaque color? Do you happen to know if there was a difference in temperature between the two greenhouses?

I have access to the plastic you are describing, and if I could use it instead of the clear it would save me the cost of buying 6 mil plastic every couple years. I am very curious to see how your plants develop. Good Luck. --Bruiser.

5/21/2001 11:53:57 AM

western Kentucky

the green light in the color spectrum is very deadly to plants, or at least that is what I have heard, so you probally should NOT use green plastic because all light except the green would be filtered out.

Then agian I am 15 and this is my first year at growing giant pumpkins, my view point is probally skewed, or different compared to the perspectives of the real Giant Pumpkin growers.

justin

5/27/2001 9:02:53 PM