LED grow light solution

[Stan79]

Hi all,

Can anyone recommend a solution to this? I’m looking to install grow lights over two gravel trays in my potting shed measuring a total of 2.5m x 40cm. Obviously this is a big area so I’m after a cost-effective solution.

Thanks all,

Stan

[Cadalot]

Stan - I bought 300x300mm square panels, Big Mallly made his own up buying rolls there is a thread on here somewhere but the photos have gone I think.

[Dead Dogs]

To help keep my seedlings happy, I put two LED floodlights above a heated propagator.



They were cheap at around £12 each from Amazon for the 30 watt, daylight (6500k) version. There are high powers and ones with lower thermal temperature, ie more red, if you’re interested in flowering under lights.

Bonus with these, as typical LED grow lights, is everything has a normal colour.

[Bigmallly]

If you are handy with a soldering iron Stan, you can buy red & blue LED strips on rolls. Then it's just a matter of cutting them to the length you want & soldering them together along with a female power socket to take the 5v mains plug. This was a lid I knocked up last year, you can just about make out the soldered joints: