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I have never needed or used grow lights. I use south facing windows. Same style of growing racks.
Always wondered and wanted a simple spectroradiometer to understand the degradation radiance of grow lights. Get a reading from new to what happens each month of running time. Ok Luke back to your show!
Question. When I buy young tomato or vegetable plants from nursery, and wish to keep them indoors for a few weeks under a grow light before moving outside, do I keep the lights on 24/7, or 12/12?
Thank you for the info. I have many tubes that my father used. Now I know that I will start with all new because I know he used them for a long time.
Luke, I need help with watering seedlings. I kill them every time with too much or too little water. HELP! PLEASE!
I'd be interested in ultra low-tech ideas to start seedings. I use a south facing window, but also changed out my nearby kitchen table hanging fixture to a grow light bulb. I put a cardboard box on the table, then can place about 4 six packs of seedings about 10 inches under the bulb. As the seedlings grow, I lower the distance by changing out the box. I'd love to have more capacity, so often have another 4 six packs that I alternate every 12 hours, leaving the bulb on 24 hrs a day. I'd love a better set up.
Is there plants that grows in the dark ?
Light intensity follows the inverse square law. If you double the distance, you quarter the intensity. If you half the distance, you quadruple the intensity. Moving lights closer is more effective than you think.
This has been a perfect subject for me. I’m getting a whole grow light set for xmas and plan on starting all my outdoor flowers and some veggies. I’m near you in MI. The more info on when to start different type seeds inside for outdoor use in spring would be so helpful. Also I had a great harvest of sweet potatoes following your idea of starting in bins last year. Thank you for all your GREAT videos.
So you only know when it's too late when LEDs are worthless. Grow lights sound like a very expensive option.
I'm conducting an experiment this year by using an overly powerful LED grow light (3x150watt) but operating it at only 25% of its maximum intensity (~113watt). This configuration minimizes waste heat generation (the room remains at 71 degrees, and the grow tent at 73 after 18 hours). Subsequently, I position the light just an inch above the tips of my tomato plants. After 30 days, the plants exhibit no signs of burn or distress, and there's no noticeable increase in water usage. Flowers are developing according to the usual schedule, and some are even fruiting. My experiment is based on the hypothesis that running electronic equipment at lower temperatures can potentially extend their lifespan.
I will be growing fruit trees this spring for the first time (apple & nectarine) and would love to see a video that explains house to care for them – specifically spraying for bugs, diseases etc. Also pruning tips to keep the trees small dwarf sizes.
Have a very sunny room, but do need to increase my ability to grow earlier in the late winter/early spring, this year was a excellent sunny period, but the first lot of seedlings needed more light.
Hello MIGardener & Crew,
Here are some ideas for a video series. Planning, layout, and execution of the pumpkin/ sunflower/ alfalfa/ pollinator cover crop patch. Limit the use of raised beds. Either tillage or no- tillage gardening and, of course, the reasons why. Mostly in ground squash gardening with a side of small to medium-sized composting using an affordable small tractor for composting at small to medium scale. As well as establishing a bird habbitat. Throw in a small water well system with the ability to run on solar panels with a small, inexpensive, and portable gasoline powered generator as a backup power source for the well.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Mr. & Mrs. MIGardener & Crew.
I hadn't really thought about all of this but it makes good sense, I will be changing out a lot of my bulbs, thanks so much
CFL bulbs have mercury in them. I would never have them in my home.
Great tips. Coming up with new ideas when you have been doing it for so long must be challenging. I would actually be interested in seeing you revisit some topics you have already covered because I am sure your knowledge has changed and developed over time. I discovered your channel years ago through one of your complete growing guides and I loved it! I think I've watched almost all of them, even for things I am not currently growing.
I'd love fun candid interviews with your seed producers or gardens near you. Your content is so informative and sometimes its fun and surprising to hear what gardeners "near" us are working through/struggling with/or what tips they have. Also then we could see different styles of gardens. You use raised beds but I personally don't. Most of it is still applicable to the way we garden but it would be cool to see other styles showcased on your channel!
Thanks……..would LOVE to know why ..we have Such a hard time growing herbs…. ( basil/oregano/ & cilantro ) especially. !!!
I did grow some flowers, cabbages, swiss chard and collards indoors last year. They did really good probably because 2 sets of lights were new and the other was only a year old. Thanks for sharing your information and experiences with us! I’ve learned so much from you and others 😃
Love this time of year with all the indoor gardening videos!
Thank you for the complimentary salad bowl mix seeds! I'm stoked about getting them started over the weekend!
Its not true. LED will never be better then HPS. Along with the far greens and far reds
I use reflective mylar sheet to surround the plant shelves so any light that travels sideways is reflected back at the plants. I believe this reduces leggyness because the light is coming from different directions. It is the direction of the light not the closeness that affects leggyness.
Can you buy a pallet of tubes and expect them to sit in a box for 10 years and then run at 100% efficiency?
Very informative video as always, waiting on starting plants in greenhouse videos!
Thank you! I had no idea because I've only been doing this for two years. Better go out and buy some more and pack them away before they become unaffordable. What I really need to know is what to buy in the digital lights because I really don't understand the values. Something explicit like for starting seeds, use these values. Switch to these values at this point in the process if you haven't transferred them outside yet. For flowers, use these values, etc. Perhaps an idea of recommended brands because I suspect some might not hit the numbers they list in their descriptions. Thanks!
WOW! LUKE! This is the exact kind of content a simpleton like me needs. Who knew? I was not aware, however, now I have several situations solved. I especially enjoy the way you explain. Keep up the great vids and as always "GROW BIG!"
I only use grow lights in January for seedlings. This is why i dont like LEDs. I grow in a large unheated shed. I need about 600 watts in t5s for 8 hours overnight because that generates enough heat to keep the temps around 65f, which is where it needs to be for young peppers, tomatoes etc.
– i do use leds for my indoor plants.
Thank you for creating this video. I have successfully grown lots of tomatoes and peppers in my aerogarden this past spring. Once I tried to transfer them over to dirt under the grow lights that came with a stand, the plants died after about a week. I had to start over and bypass the grow lights and go straight from aerogarden to in soil/pots outside on my deck to harden them off. The grow lights and stand were brand new but I could not get seedlings to get past a certain height before they died off. I read to keep them at a few inches from the light. In the end they turned yellow and died. Had them growing in coco-coir. Any suggestions as to what happened? First I thought maybe fertilizer for the seedlings but that did not help. What suggestion do you have for the lumens for the lights? What came with the stand was Full Spectrum 180W T8 growing lamps for seed starting with 2900 Kelvin. Any tips will be greatly appeciated 🙂
Failure curves are usually Weibull distributions, not normal bell curve
Thank you! Excellent, very practical information.
I figured out a set of mine weren't working last year, and I had not had them very long. But I bought them and did not install for a few months, so couldn't go back to the vendor. I've not seen nor heard anyone address this before..thank you.
Light meter app in your cellphone can help
As a thought for future video series, I was wondering if you had ever tried straw bale gardening for vegetables or strawberries? Would you consider doing a video or series of videos explaining what it is and/or how it is done?