safe distance light source to phal bloom

[ladyslipper]

Well, I have bought my table top grow station because I wanted to make sure I had something that looked decent & I had to make sure my phals would have enough light in the winter.

Now my question is I measured one of the spikes from the highest flower to the bottom of the ballast & it looks like its between 4 & 6 inches. Is that enough distance so the flowers will not be burned? I had thought that as my grow area is right next to a window, I could probably place the plant close to the end of the grow station with the spike poking outside of the ballast. My next project will be to try to enclose the area with (probably) something like plexiglass so I can mist them without spraying down my livingroom walls.

regards, m