Hello Nate, have to ask are you an 🇦🇺Aussie? First visit to your Channel and hear a familiar tone? Great Vlog Thank You looking to grow some food on the road, 👍🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🙋🏻♀️🇦🇺
What an idiot about lights in general.. all I use are those exact lights and my plants are growing.. When you DO NOT HAVE MONEY FOR A GROW TENT!, A HUMIDIFIER, A TEMPERATURE REGULATOR FOR HUMIDITY, A FAN TO BLOW AWAY THE SMELL OF A PERSON GROWING THROUGH A FILTRATION SYSTEM, AND CANNOT AFFORD $400 FOR A SINGLE PLANT GROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 you do it the correct old way, maintaining and watching your plants period!!!, without modern technology!!😂😂 and 90% of you growers are AUTO-FLOWERING!!, NOT TRUE GROWING!!😂😂😂 MY PLANTS ARE GROWING PERIOD!, watched alot of videos on youtube, AND IF YOU GROWERS WERE CORRECT!!, MY PLANTS WOULD HAVE DIED ALREADY😂😂
thanks for the feedback. We wish there were a simple straight forward answer. But the truth is that until you invest some time and effort to understand how this works, you are unlikely to get your lighting setup correct....
Plants do need a period of darkness every day, so we usually recommend the lights be on during the day. However if you're in an area that has no natural light then there's no reason you couldn't 'switch' that.
I would love to know where you are finding the GE 32w at only 25$ 🧐 it’s basically 40$ everywhere I go and isn’t worth it at that price. Especially when SANSI runs discounts on its own storefront.
I am a tiny home gardener, some veggies and flowers. I need a simple direction such what lights to use, how long and what distance from seed to seedling?
@@GetUrbanLeaf I want to spend $20 to $35 on LEDs that are easy to hang under wire shelves. I've purchased the so-called Grow Lights in different styles, which stopped working after 12 months. I've also purchased a $120 light with the long bulbs, which was very difficult to hang and adjust. I can replace the bulbs, but I can not replace an LED strip. There are at least 50 videos on seedling lights, and only 1 or 2 provide easy-to-understand info on lights, timing, and distance. The ease of adjustment depends on the type of light and the manufacturers.
I have the same van and I really like the way you used the natural light on the dashboard instead of using a grow light in the back someplace. Where did you buy the fabric grow bags? Was there a problem with water overflowing and collecting on the dashboard?
Hi there! they were actually some prototypes we had made that never made their way to production. We are however looking to add something similar (but a lot bigger) to our catalogue soon!
🙋🏼♀️ sir... any Sci fi like ideas to garden in cold weather in a Land Rover. hopefully the land Rover would have a chimney? 😬 ... do u think it could be done with one of those uv lights or so? 😬 please, tell us. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rdhlZuFR0q8.htmlsi=GtsEPIiA4VjbOTkr I want carrots and oranges... yeah... like for juice in the morning 🌄 😎
You are 100% correct the white lights perform the same result as grow lights however grow lights can work at a much lower watt and current as it only emits light that’s usable by the plant. If your attempting to keep costs low then this could be an option
agree. And these cost savings are significant if you're growing at scale (i.e. in a vertical farm). But for hobby gardeners at home the energy difference is almost irrelevant and we think the other factors outweight
I totallyyyyyyyyy disagree with saying purple lights are ugly 🤨 As someone with sensitive eyes, white lights severelyyyyyyyyyy hurt, and I cannot handle them being near me, let alone being comfortable with their light. And then I can only have them for so long, which sucks because I wannnnt to look at my plants. Switched to purple and now I’m muchhhhhh more comfortable, doesn’t hurt to look at them or my plants, it’s a very verryyyyy nice vibe at night time when u dim them down, they don’t randomly blind ur screens and such, or make u feel like ur living outside in the sun. Purple > white for me frfr. Wouldnt go back
Have you noticed how many LED lights come with a controller which allow you to change the lights color? The way it is done is that todays LEDs are capable of producing all the different colors, how it switches is that the voltage is adjusted to create the different colors. !
it is 100% true. i made various experiments and basically you could have a plant growing with 100W of pink light and it woundnt even grow like a plant with 20W of white light.
I know that phone lux meters are very inacurate, but my current lights show between 3500-4000 lux depending on the distance. Now, i dont know if thats enough but im waiting for more lights to come. Im currently planting : Basii, Bell peppers, Cherry tomatoes, Lemon mint and Perilla. Also, as of now, im lighting them up 24/7 . I might change it up as soon as the extra lights come.
I believe 2 white full spectrum LED nodes, to one orange, to one red produces incredible results. The ones I buy for my bonsai are 1 white. 2 orange, and one red ratio, it provides excellent results, but it’s slightly less than optimal than the first I described.
I am retired in Costa Rica and am setting up an LED grow light system. i will be raising inside veggies that we can't get here. Any help/direction you can give would be great. Thanks for what you do.
That sounds like a fun project Arthur, what are you growing?? Our website is loaded with information about how to grow various edible plants indoors and in urban spaces. We also have a free eBook and various other resources that can help you achieve your goals. Welcome, and great to have you here!
I will be planting potatoes, peppers, radishes, dwarf carrots, actually many dwarf plants including tomatoes, lettuce, beets, okra and others. It will take a lot of experimenting. I have 12, 4' Barrina grow ligths, may not the best but what it is what I could get. @@GetUrbanLeaf
The single main point, you completely ignored, as to why traditional grow lights are purple... has to do with the fact that all photosynthesis takes place in the Blue & Red spectrums. Chloroplasts do not undergo photosynthesis at all in Green Light. Frequencies in the Green spectrum do catylize certain enzymes that effect plant growth & development, but Green Light contributes nothing to photosynthesis itself. So the 1 & ONLY reason traditional grow lights were purple... is because the focus was put on the spectrums that are responsible for photosynthesis. Furthermore, the fact that Green Light penetrates deeper into plant tissues, does not equate to plants utilizing that light. Green Light is only absorb by the Carotenoid pigments in plant cells, & these pigments are abysmally inefficient at absorbing that Green light. Depending on species, only 2% - 20% of Green light is actually absorbed & provides excitation energy for various physiological functions in plants. The primary function of Green Light in plants effects Cell Turgor, aids in the Osmosis of nutrients into cells, Catylizing certain growth hormones, Stem Elongation, & triggers the Stomata to open or close, in plants growing in forest understories. Green Light contributes nothing to the photosynthetic production of food.
we covered this at the beginning of the video, and you’re right - this is traditional wisdom. I think you might be surprised by what some of the more recent science says about the impact of green on plant health, however. check out Prof Bruce Bugbee and his work
@@GetUrbanLeaf The so-called recent science on the effects of Green light on plants, is actually not recent. We've know since the early 50s, that Green light was "essential" for other physiological functions in plants. It is just that the grow light industry simply ignored the necessity of Green light, because it is not used for photosynthesis, & the focus was placed solely on the production of plant sugars. This has lead to particularly annoying garden myths about how plants interact with different frequencies of light, such as... Green light is not essential or important, & the science had just simply been misrepresented for decades. If you read plant physiology books from the 60s & 70s... they all discuss the roles Green Light plays in plant development. For so long, growers have only focused on photosynthesis, which is absurd, because photosynthesis is only 1 "essential" physiological process in plants. Photosynthesis may be the dominant process, but it would cease to function without all the other physiological functions that support it.
I think most people have their personal favorite color combination. I use blue/white leds in my grow tent for short dense foliage. Red tends to create tall spindly plants. My greenhouse uses white led (5K) shop lights. They supplement the weak sunlight that penetrates the triple glazing on the green house. The combination of natural light along with white leds seems to improve growth on my vegetable plants.
I remember taking a computer class back when everything was just text. It was black snd white. Then came color. New computers had two colors green or orange text.
Its always funny when people diss the experiments where Kratky wins. These people cant stand nature and the simplicity of it. Kratky is for people that knows the power of letting nature do its job with least amount of human interference.
We aren't perfect nor do we pretend to be. We're learning and like to think we always will. If we waited til we knew everything, we'd never publish a single video and that would mean what modest knowledge we do have would never be shared You're entitled to your opinion, but this is not really aligned with ours. And since it's our channel, we'll continue to do what we like with it. Thanks!
