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LED grow lights......any advice?
Re: LED grow lights......any advice?
saganco wrote: And Country - its SO not spring for most of us - you turkey!! LOL - dont make us in snow country hunt you down and rub your nose in the snow!
Ah yes. Just the effect I was hoping for.
@sanderson wrote: Photo of your indoor garden?
I am the worlds worst for planting seeds inside, then neglecting them, and winding up with leggy sprouts that eventually keel over and die. Same story this year about neglect, but take a look at these seedlings. LED grow lights get half credit for the results. (Beautiful, sunny days in the south-facing window get the rest of the kudos.) This is way beyond the best Ive ever done with starting seeds inside.
Im at it again -- determined to have a pretty, fun, productive indoor, year-round garden! Ive gotten excited, then failed so many times I feel like Charlie Brown and the football.
The reduction in electricity costs from using strips or incandescent lamps to me using the LEDs should have easily paid for the two LED full spectrum lights I have as they are now two years old and have been used for about five months solid for each of the two years .
Reminds me of when Springfield, Vermont, who is one of the early-users of LED street lights! They had them since 2012 and some were installed in 2011, IIRC, LOL. I, later on, was thinking, Yikes! or similar, as they usually mean a severe loss of North American manufacturing jobs, I think my heart sank.
@countrynaturals wrote: blue-painted Walmart regular grow lights.
Im sorry to post related to an old post, but what do you mean by blue-painted? Do you mean the blue-frosted incandescent light bulbs?
They call them grow lights but theyre just regular bulbs with a blue coating that peels off after a year. Now that the price of the full-spectrum LED grow lights has come down so dramatically, theres no reason to waste money on the other kind. Im not sure theyre even available any more. They were $6 each. Now you can get the good ones for $8+ for a 2-pack, so its really a no-brainer.
BTW, never hesitate to bring up an old post. This forum is a goldmine of useful, timeless info. I just learned from (and bumped) a post from 2010.
 I assume a combination of the built-in power converter as the power supply for the LEDs and the LEDs themselves!
The first piece of good news is the price of LED bulbs. The one one the left cost $30, 2 years ago. The one on the right --$8+ plus at Walmart for 2.
The 2nd piece of good news is that we now have a slider to a south-facing balcony, with a totally unobstructed view of the sun for over 6 hours a day this time of year.
Ill post more pics, later, as I get my plants and seed trays set up. So . . . what is everyone else doing under lights this year?
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