Looking to do a little indoor gardening space for my mother for xmas, but I don't know much about how to do inside setups. Any suggestions for good lights/containers/general setups?
Looking to do a little indoor gardening space for my mother for xmas, but I don't know much about how to do inside setups. Any suggestions for good lights/containers/general setups?
If it's just herbs & leafy greens you can just buy T5's or T8's from Home Depot or the like - go with a K rating closer to the "blue" side of the spectrum for vegetative growth.
No need to get fancy LED's and drop oodles of money, a simple fluorescent fixture will do just fine. Other than that you just want decent fresh air exchange if meemaw is growing inside of something. They make grow tents, those are neat but not necessary.
The LED's do look cool though!
I'd suggest like a sizable wire rack, think industrial style shelving or whatever. Make 5,6,7 shelves on that rack & put fluorescent bulbs along the length of each shelf. Then just some sort of trays.
You can just use the cheap timers because flouros don't induce a huge voltage drop & burn em out like HPS & MH lights do.
Sorry, t5 & t8 are a style of fluorescent bulb - the big long tube bastards. Should have mentioned.
Idk how to attach images but here's one i grabbed from a duckduckgo query of "veg rack fluorescent"
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