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RE: LED There be Light

in #home4 years ago

Most plants will respond better to lights in the 'daylight' spectrum. Where this light says 4000K (in the US they call this the 'temperature' of the light, although it more accurately refers to the color). Ideally, you will want light in 5000K-6500K range, for most plants. Different plants, of course, will have different needs. I know that your snake plant (bottom right) will do just fine without any light at all, and if that's a lemon tree on the bottom left, your 4000K light should be fine for that.

In my experience, plants will still grow under lights that are 4000K or less, they just tend to be more 'leggy'; the stems will grow faster and possibly need support. If you have this problem, moving the light closer to the plants can help.

Best of luck!

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Yeah I know daylight is about 5500k and there are proper grow lights available with the ideal colour temperatures but I don’t want violet or blue lights in my house. Not even for christmas time 😅 If this light would have come in 5000K I would have taken that but there wasn’t that option. I think this is meant to be more pleasing to the eyes as with unnatural light at 5500K tends to look very cool. I have two studio flashes with modelling lights where the colour temp can be changed between 3000-6000K, but those obviously can’t be used for this purpose. I don’t care how my plants grow, as long as they stay alive 😅

The daylights are definitely very blue, but most of the led grow lights I've seen these days are more pink than violet, if that would work for you.

If you're only worried about them surviving the winter, everything I saw in your picture should be fine without any extra light at all, as long as you water them and don't lock them in a closet 🤣 I've had lemon trees a few years now, and before I got the lights for them they would drop leaves in the winter, but still come back in the spring. With the light they keep their leaves all year round.