I know these are great lights but they are high priced for some of us. I wanted to share a light I bought from SANSI on Amazon. Sansi is sold for fish tanks with live plants. I bought one of the small lights and was amazed by it. It is a 5w with a clip on pot attachment. I just bought the 10w today.
I absolutely love your plant room. This video comes at the perfect time. I've been setting up my plant room this week, and it's been so much fun, but researching grow lights has been overwhelming. You helped me find the lights I needed. Thanks for all your 🪴 planty advice, I enjoy and look forward to your videos. 😊
I was just doing some research earlier and discovered their LED in the Aspect alone is around $40 CAD. That's just the part that makes light. It also needs a power supply, the aluminum enclosure, people to make it, test it, ship it... Once I realized the LED costs more than most entire lights do, I started to think they're pricey for good reasons. I'm not saying you're wrong; they're totally expensive. But I think you get what you pay for! They're fundamentally different from other lights from the bottom to the top.
The humidity is the biggest thing that makes the difference in my cabinet! And it’s so easy to add the weather stripping! You should try it! In Denver our humidity is normally well below 30% but my cabinet stays 90% humidity with no humidifier in it. It just stays moist with the pots of soil and plants in it.
I love your plant room! ( I’ve had a Philodendron squamiferum for more than a year and it’s been struggling. I went to move it & it fell over 😢 what’s left in the pot is putting out new leaves & I was able to propagate 2 broken pieces in water. ) Where did you get the plant tables? I love those!
That’s a great question. I recommend checking their website. If they don’t have the answer on there, I’m sure their customer service would be happy to answer any questions you have. 🪴
They're typically the same as regular lights, these days. The Vita is only 20 watts, and the large Aspect is 40 watts. Not long ago, most people were running at least 60 watt bulbs in every socket in their home! You can get away with 10 watts or less for a lot of modern LED bulbs, but the soltech LED bulbs are higher wattage to get the intensity needed for growing plants. The long story short is: assuming your electricity cost is the average for the USA (23 cents per kilowatt hour), you could run a 40 watt Aspect light for 12 hours per day, 30 days per month, and it would cost you less than $3.50. Realistically you'd probably run it for 8-10 hours, so it would cost even less :) Where I live, it's about 11 cents per kilowatt hour. All of my lights combined cost me well under $10 per month. It's well worth it.
I got the Soltech bar light and am curious how well it does in your cabinet. I used a light meter and the light out put is so low only a few inches away so I’m confused as to how people use these for their whole cabinets? It seems like it’s too weak?
Agreed!! The foot candles is low! I’m disappointed soltech doesn’t have better brighter bar lights for cabinets! And I own 14 soktech lights. And have purchased additional 5 grove lights in my cabinet because I was loyal to soltech I’ll see if my plants grow at all. Under minimal measures foot candle with 5 lights!! Talk about pricey!
I did buy this same light but haven't put it up yet. I'm terrified of the included sticky stuff. It always seems to give way and suddenly in the middle of the night there's a crash and the light is sitting on plants!
Some plants start to, for lack of a better term, rot in high humidity with no airflow. My philodendron Florida Green and my dieffenbachia were both getting brown soggy leafspots until I set up the fan. My basement just didn't have enough airflow for them specifically. The fan instantly fixed the issue.
