New Toy: LED grow light
LED grow light in action
Winter is a time of nothing-ness; there is nothing much to do in the garden. Most of my plants goes into domaincy and there is only so much cleaning and organising I can do in the shed, which is a good thing; This leaves me time to perfect my other gardening techniques, propagation.
I have always wanted to buy a grow light; My window sill just doesn’t cut it. It either gets really sunny and hot or cold and nothing. My seedings usually grows to be quite leggy and is ever slightly slanted towards the sun. Xavier says I am obsed with perfection which I am not denying, but who’s not?
After 2 days of googling, I bought this LED light off eBay. As you can see from the photo, it emits purple light. Apparently this aids growth and flowering (something to do with the light spectrum, frankly too scientific for me). The result so far is more than good. My herbs are growing really well, lush and bushy. Like wise cannot be said for the tomato seedlings. I think it’s just too cold in the garage, nothing to do with light exposure. Infect I think I have found the next thing to buy, a heat mat! Ahh.., woman and shopping.
UPDATE: Really happy with the results but likewise could not be said for the product itself. Very poorly made; Had barely used it and have to start duct taping the wire. Not happy. Maybe is just this model that I bought, just maybe….
