LED There be Light

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Me and my plants have been suffering from the lack of sunlight grately. This time of the year what ever sunlight there might be, does not come in direct contact with my apartment because the sun is so low that it hides behind other houses. We are down to less than 6 hours of daylight here, and us mere mortals require more than that to function properly.

I remembered I had a spare table lamp that’s more decorative than functional, but switching out the bulb for it could help me and my green friends. I went and got the brightest light the store had, and it’s so bright it hurts to look at it, so probably pretty good.

If it looks like my plants perk up with their new light, I’ll get more of the same kind. I do have three spots in my cealings that are still missing lamps even after two years of living here, might need to actually put those to use. I did manage to pick up the correct bulb to my bathroom cealing light today, after probably not having it on at all during the time I’ve lived here. It wasn’t something a regular store carried so I just couldn’t be bothered. But I do like having light.

I’ve spend most of my money this year on lights so I guess I’ll just keep adding to that. Let there be light, one way or another.

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I have a special lamp for this for the winter it’s A4 format and you put it infront of your face and look into it and I take a sun bed once a month , and we have 11 hours of daylight 😉

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Is it one of those wake up lights that you can set to gradually get brighter in the morning for an easier wake up?

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No it’s a special one for people that have problems in the winter it’s from Phillips
Similar to this one

The Lux helps to get light in your eyes and be more energetic I thought it was a fairytale but it works. It’s a flat thingie and I keep it in the attic and get it out in December and January

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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 😅

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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.

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giggle, I am also suffering from the lack of sunlight 😂

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Well, could be worse. Svalbard get 0 hours of daylight right now :D

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Haha yep could be worse. But they have northern lights to compensate! 😅

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