is this light best for veg, or flower
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I am using it to grow herbs indoors. It seems to provide less light to the plants compared to normal sunlight. My belief is that vegetables might fare worse than the herbs (basil and parsley).
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Veg is excellent! With flowering, the light coverage is excellent but you have to buy 3k color bulbs and I'm not so sure on its ability for light to penetrate down into canopy. To make t5 flower successful you need to scrog, supercrop or get many nodes on canopy and you'd get amazing colas. It was worth the buy for me as its clean, barley any heat and light coverage was great for bushy and low plants.
1260343
I use it for veg. On early plants. You can flower if u change bulbs, but I wouldn't.
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I don't know anyone who flowers under a t5, but I know MANY people who swear by the results they get from veging under it, myself included.
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Veg is excellent! With flowering, the light coverage is excellent but you have to buy 3k color bulbs and I'm not so sure on its ability for light to penetrate down into canopy.To make t5 flower successful you need to scrog, supercrop or get many nodes on canopy and you'd get amazing colas.It was worth the buy for me as its clean, barley any heat and light coverage was great for bushy and low plants.
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Twelve continuous hours of dark in every 24 hour cycle is what will make your plants bud. They will flower under this bulb, but it's more geared towards vegging. You want to use the FLD125 2700K for flowering. I couldn't find the wing with a 2700K bulb, or even the wing alone, so I just took the 6500K bulb out for use in my vegging section (without a wing) and put in a 2700K bulb in my flowering section. I have some seriously happy girls. The wing is well-made and worth every penny. (especially if you're graduating from aluminum foil) Happy growing! Dan
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I have had various results with my 8 gardens. Most of them last over a year but I have had to replace more often in my Aerogarden 6 for some reason. A few times a year they have deals on lights so you can stock up. Otherwise they have an LED option now that should last many years. I have 2 of those and they work great.
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Yeah am using all 3 lights on my plant.its a slower process but that's what i was shooting for instead of a rapid process getting bigger flowers than my 300w light so far so good.
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Hi, according to dirt genius the 280w uv led light is for flowering ,and the 280w HO is for vegging. Hope this helps.
779471
No. This light is only good for low light plants. Get a finnex planted plus for your swords.
1372150
As the prior response indicated, this light would not be the best option for a planted tank that requires stronger lighting.
1715150
You'll get no good usable PAR light from those led panels. Check out the 250w cfl in 2700k for flowering 6400k for veg. Best and cheapest. If using led use black dog
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Hello, will this light be good for live plants. I see you can add two more led bulbs. Is this true.
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Yes, it has a light. It is hard to handle and you actually have to dismember your flower, in order to use the scope. I would suggest something you can use (while your product is still on the plant).
1970437
The type of lighting and how long it is on plays a big roll in plant health. You shouldn't have to use more than one type of Plant Food.
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In an enclosed space yes, depends on what you're growing also. Different plants would like different lighting I found this a great lighting system for vegtative growth it was less then par for flower development by all means you cannot go wrong on the price and quality hydrofarm is on par with many 200w systems of other names
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The stock light is very poor for live plants, but you can buy a rather inexpensive replacement. Its the Finnex Fugeray Planted+ Cliplight. I bought it for around $40 and my plants (anubias, java fern, peacock moss, brazilian pennywort) are growing great1
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Hi Tim ~We have mostly regular plants and herbs, which seem to love this light, but my husband says he doesn't really think this is the right light for flowering plants. He thinks Dan's recommendation is the correct one. Good luck!
250608
Yes this is a good light for growing plants as long as you use Fluorescent Grow Light or similar in them.
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Yes, one of the better options for doing so. For vegetative growth I recommend you have full spectrum or "blue" spectrum bulbs. 5400 Kelvin? That's from memory. If that's off the answers are a Google search away
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I believe it would be. I used it to start bedding plants (tomatoes, basil, etc.) and grow them to the plant out stage and the light worked well for this.