Starting seedlings with LED's

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anonymountain

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• Mar 22, 2013

• #1

Hi,
Im new to growing & quite confident that I have just about everything sorted for my 1st grow journey. However Ive just ran out of cash due to foreseen circumstances & cant afford the fluorescent seedling lights I was gonna get. I do have dual spectrum Led lights x2 that my mate gave me. Nothing fancy, just the cheapy ones you can get online. I was wondering if I could use those, what do yous reckon?

Cheers

 

Trailingpickles

Well-Known Member

• Mar 22, 2013

• #2

It should be alright, if you got CFLs use them too

 

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anonymountain

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• Mar 22, 2013

• #3

Trailingpickles said:

It should be alright, if you got CFLs use them too

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Cheers mate, much appreciated

 

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Jollyjoe

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• Mar 22, 2013

• #4

I tried LED and never liked them

 

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anonymountain

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• Mar 22, 2013

• #5

Jollyjoe said:

I tried LED and never liked them

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I don't like them either but unfortunately its all I can work with at the moment. Plus its only for the initial couple of weeks of 6 seedling growth before I fire up the HPS light.

Cheers

 

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anonymountain

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• Mar 23, 2013

• #6

Yay or Nay, anyone else? I wouldn't want to use them if they were going to harm the babies.

Cheers

 

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anonymountain

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• Mar 25, 2013

• #7

Bump

Anyone else? Any advice greatly appreciated

 

Budsworth

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• Mar 25, 2013

• #8

I use 2 90 watt LED aloofa's for vegin & they work well. Then in flower room they go w/ 400 watt HPS with LED for side lighting.

 

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anonymountain

Member

• Mar 25, 2013

• #9

Cheers mate, I did think they'd make a good supplemental. So I'm presuming they'd be ok starting off seedlings for the first 2 weeks?