Is This Helpful?

[OROZCONLECHE]

I Found This LED and Thought if It Might Work So Those Anyone know if This Is Helpful at All?


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[rainbowgardener]

We could be more helpful if you said more about what kind of LED light -- brand/model name, specs, etc -- AND what you want to use it for. Lighting needed to help seeds germinate and seedlings grow to transplant size is different from lighting needed to grow a plant to maturity and fruiting and lighting needs of different plants vary.

The light looks very blue in the picture, but I don't know if that is just the picture or how the light actually looks.

[OROZCONLECHE]

I actually just found this LED know nothing about it and I added a couple watch batteries and sense my indoor seedlings don't get much light I'm using it for night light but I don't know if its more of a waste then helpful

[Dillbert]

>>watch batteries

well, that about says it all - complete waste.

energy is energy, it can be transformed, almost always at a loss.
there is no free lunch.

watts be watts and a couple of watch batteries aren't going to deliver much enery/light power to the plant.

[applestar]

I was thinking a typical LED bulb/system uses a lot of those individual LED lights. I remember reading a DIY for making an LED plant light system using one or two 150-250 LED holiday light string(s).

[OROZCONLECHE]

So what em I looking for if I'm going to grow plants with inside light? Watts? Heat? How brightness ?

[PunkRotten]

Also it is not good to run lights on plants at night cause they need a rest period. I am no expert on lights but you need specific plant growing lights. I have a fish tank with aquatic plants and use a T5 fixture.

[rainbowgardener]

So what em I looking for if I'm going to grow plants with inside light? Watts? Heat? How brightness ?

Definitely not heat.

You still haven't said anything about what you are trying to grow with these lights.

For starting seeds to grow from germination to transplant size, I use regular fluorescent tubes in a shop light fixture, similar to this:


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They come in two or four foot lengths, usually with two fluorescent tubes.

If this is what you do, you want them with hanging chains so they can be moved up and down. You want them just a couple inches above the plants (raise them as the plants grow) on for 16 hrs a day. (No night lights - I agree with the comment above that plants need a rest period. Different processes happen in the dark than the light. Not everyone agrees with that however; I have seen people argue for leaving lights on 24/7)

If you want to grow plants not just to transplant size but to maturity and fruiting, you will need something more high intensity than this.

[cynthia_h]

There have been many, many threads on THG about lights for seed starting indoors. However, since you live in southern California, I'm puzzled that you feel the need to do so.

Which plants do you want to start indoors? With Ontario's nearly 12-month growing cycle, it's not nearly as much of a necessity as for northern gardeners (Michigan, Ohio, New England, etc.).

Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9

[OROZCONLECHE]

Well the light I want them for seeds and plant a week old not older plants I noticed all my plants planted outside didn't make it, I'm not sure why but the ojes inside are just growing like crazy, so I let them grow inside then transplant