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growing under a hps and an led light together?

15 years ago

Hi there, I have an LED light 12 x 12x 6 and a HTG supply HPS light 150W with a ballast, is it ok to grow with the lights 2-3 feet apart from each other? Or should I use just one or the other? (The plants I am growing are baby sugar maples, birch trees, impatiens, and desert rose seedlings.

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zathras
15 years ago
What's your specific concern? Generally speaking, adding more light always helps and those two probably have very different wavelengths. If the LED is a commercial light, it's probably close to useless, but it won't really hurt anything.
khyberkitsune
15 years ago
Utilizing both lights will provide better results. The LED light is likely missing the IR that the HPS will provide, and this will boost photosynthetic rates, especially if the panel is heavy in 660nm light.
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GreenThumb90
Original Author
15 years ago
Im not an expert on the luminens and nm. I will be having both of the lights aat 5 feet off the ground and in a good air circulating area of my garage. Thanks guys I will post my setup later!!

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