01-29-2012, 12:52 PM
(01-29-2012, 08:44 AM)chuck white Wrote: Plants like red and blue light
You can buy the four foot shop light fixture at diamond for about $15. Buy your grow light bulbs a Walmart. They are about 60% of Diamonds cost.
that is a total of 80 watts.
I been playing with 10 watt red LEDs and a 10 watt blue LED.
My study tells me I need more red then blue. but the LEDs are $35 each.
(I got mine free, they sampled them)
The prices are dropping fast and that is all we will use in the future.
Sure plants like red and blue light , the want whatever is closest to sun light but we were talking about strating seeeds on the cheap
where the hell is "Diamond"?
It’s much better to grow seedlings under fluorescent lights than to rely solely on natural light, even in a greenhouse. Some brands of lights are sold as “grow lights,” designed to provide light in specific ranges required by plants, but standard fixtures with two “cool white” fluorescent tubes per fixture also give plants adequate light and are inexpensive
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distributio...m1245.html