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As I haven't a greenhouse, here's my grow box and my collection of Lithops and other Mesembs I've managed to gather since seeing Terry S on GW.
I can only apologise for the picture quality, it's quite apparent my hand shakes a lot when taking pics
My short day plants are the ones in the shoe box

BryanW wrote:...I can only apologise for the picture quality, it's quite apparent my hand shakes a lot when taking pics...

You need to invest in a tripod. Bryan, or use a fast shutter speed.

Rod, I need to invest in a Camera first, those pics were taken on an Amazon tablet

BryanW wrote:Rod, I need to invest in a Camera first, those pics were taken on an Amazon tablet

Ah right. These things are almost impossible to keep still when taking a photo.

I managed to find out my old HP camera, pics are a lot clearer but still not the best

I also took a side view showing the elongated/etiolated Lithops I acquired

Thats a nice little set up you have, looking very good.

Tina wrote:Thats a nice little set up you have, looking very good.

Hi Tina, I think there were around 86 pots in there at the time those pics were taken and about 100 plants.
I should be able to fit in around 200 plants once I get square cornered trays, there's still a lot of unused/wasted space, which the seedlings will fill no doubt.
The way it's going I'll probably have another 2 of those boxes filled by this time next year

I didn't realise keeping plants could be so addictive

Looks more than just good Bryan

What kind of light setup you have?

Hi Anttun,
I currently have 2x 45w LED panels covering the Lithops and an 81w LED strip bar covering the winter plants.
There are 3 aluminium encased power supplies for the lights and all are sitting on an additional heat-sink outside of the box, inside the box there is a fan keeping everything cool.
I paid around 25euros for each panels and about 39euros for the strip.

Since putting the plants under the LED lights they look more healthier than they did on the window sill and some of the Lithops have coloured up more. I have also put some seedlings in there (which I'm using for an alkaline substrate experiment) and they have improved a lot too.