Indoor LED Grow lights for a 4 foot tall container Lemon Tree?
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shivasj
9 years agoyellowthumb
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Comments (13)That bulb is inefficient and not enough lumens. Use a regular CFL bulb with around 5500 Kelvin color temperature and around 1200 Lumens, 20-25 Watts. Kale is a cool weather plant. The bulb you have will be too hot. You may be able to get by with 14 hours per day of light for such an early season crop. Use a reflector such as this to direct the light. Of course, you could find a more decorative adjustable arm desk type lamp with a reflector as long as it directs the light in the right size "cone". You may be able to light three buckets in a tight group with one bulb. You can do this simply by putting a wood stake in the bucket to hold the light so that you can adjust it up and down. The light should be 12-18" above the bucket/ plant. You can use Kale for everything from sprouts, micro-greens to add to a salad when thinning the plants, sautéd at baby sized like spinach, to full sized like you are probably used to doing. If you find that you like the micro and baby sizes, you may want to stick with growing them, and you may still end up with a few full sized once in a while, but you can always get those at the local market. I grow several greens this way all year long, but I never let them get to maturity because I don't think it is worth it since I can get those at the store. Also, a tray 6" deep will work for salad greens and those small and tender enough to sauté (micro, and baby Kale). https://www.bbbseed.com/how-to-grow-baby-kale/...See Moreyellowthumb
9 years agobrkieffner
9 years agoEbay and Amazon has LED grow lights from a company called Gotham Hydroponics. I bought a 100w LED light from them almost 2 months ago. I've attached some pictures to show you what it has done. The big plant you see is a Lisbon Lemon Tree, so I felt I had to comment, ha.
The tree came distressed from Lowe's. I bought it in July and left it outside through September. As you can see before it went under the LED light, it had recovered quite nicely. The setup is what you see. I started the test on October 18th. The final pictures are in front of a window for better viewing but there was new growth! The growing room was in the basement. The temperature down there was not ideal, so I personally feel that the growth could have been much better if it was warmer in my basement. Not to mention the stale air and such.
The other plant is just a daisy I saved from the cold and as you saw, it drooped considerably. The next picture is three days of being under the LED light. I feel that LED's do work. My only concern at the moment which I'll post in another thread is when plants get too tall, at what height will I need to worry about supplement lighting if at all.
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Doug Laberge
5 years ago
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4 years agoWe have a solution to your predicament! Our 20W LED Decor Pendant
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This is our little (4ft) lemon tree. Its now started producing lemons!
Doug Laberge
4 years agoTheDerek
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoGary Sutcliff (Ledyard CT Z6)
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2 years agoKevin Leberge
8 months agolast modified: 8 months agoLol CDL. they mean CFL (squiggly pigtail bulb). there is no CFL on the planet that works better than the LEDs I own. That’s a fact because good leds are more efficient and have more options than CFL bulbs period. You can get garbage leds though if you don’t know what you’re buying In which case a CFL might be better but eventually even the average crappy leds will catch up and be better than cfl. there really is no argument based in fact that contradicts what I said here but there are a lot of people that won’t understand what I’m saying and argue.
if you want good leds that grow whatever plant you want visit any of thesegoogle: synce led
google: gavita LED
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youtube: migro led if you want to learn more about what differentiates a bad led from a good one. good luck ✌🏻
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