DON'T Use Grow Lights! Use THESE Instead

Shop lights. The livesaver of so many gardeners that are growing seedlings indoors. These are cheap, and they work well.

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[NormalizetheNormal]

Good advice! I like shop lights, and I'm not growing anything for fruit, so here I go, going to get some more shop lights lol

[zambonidriver]

Got 4500 lumen 5500k 3ft shop lights on clearance from Walmart, 4.50$ each. They grow leafy greens all the way through harvest at 90-95% as effective as my $150 grow lights

[bassbrother]

Ive used a few different lights not designed for growing and things do grow but very very slowly

[josephmoore]

Good advice I did the same thing! They work for clones to

[JM-ymmm]

Not even flower and fruit, the only difference between this and high end LED grow lights will mostly be the wattage as the majority of the LEDs are in the white spectrum. They do add additional infrared and UV LEDs sometimes but by and large, the biggest difference is the wattage. These lights do great for clones and low light intensity requirement plants light microgreens and seedlings.\ You might even scale it up for more power, if space allows. That said, the professional growlights do tend to give you more plant available photons per watt so in the long run, it depends on a lot of factors.

[timothyryan]

I started with eight bulb shop lights on vegetables and moved to cannabis and now I have two high power lights and I use the twelve tube fixtures for side lights in flower stage to bath the sides of the plants my other lights are a 300 watt visosun 300 with percentage adjusting switch. and a spectra vision 600-900 watt dual mode veg switch and flower switch. All together in veg mode with side tubes it runs about 1080 watts. Veg and add 300 for flower mode. Works well. But versatility is key for me I'm always moving lights and set up around raising my lights for optimum growth . .until I get another separate room for flower. I like the visosun 300 watt it has an adjustable intensity switch for 25/50/75/100 percent intensity so I can imitate the natural sun light curve spectrum .for starting babies clones and also for finishing flower. I can go up and down the sun light curve . Works well.

[GMT]

These lights will only be useful for seedlings and over wintering very small plants. They are more 'Propagation lights' not Grow Lights.

[rene]

Intresting thing, but i dont know if you get the efficiency and and same g/ watt as a bar light.

[AppaStappa]

I get it. But I like my super efficient LEDs

[fashiharz]

Will it work for grown houseplants? How far does it need to be from the plant?

I just want to grow indoor palm trees.

[yamagrow]

I use Harbor Freight $20 lights for clones.19W, does the trick.

[growprofit]

Growers say not to have em close ...i had em close so now I moved mine about 2 feet away

[Dominant-fn]

Wheres your heating pad under yhe seedlings

[juneramirez]

Nothing at wamart for $9.00! Was just there came home empty handed.

[MissionaryForMexico]

T5 are even cheaper to purchase than LED.

[nneilzen]

But they are not full spectrum lights and plants need full spectrum for good results.

[Patriot-kp]

Well your video is kindergarten knowledge people used shop lights for ages to grow lol

[hanswurst]

Why not using a candle instead of a growlight? It works...