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Originally Posted by Labradors2
Thanks to Doug for shedding some light on the subject! I for one am confused by it all, especially when I read some of the sites by those pot-growers! I think I'll get some fluorescent shop lights from Home Depot.
Linda
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It is confusing for those of us who aren't up to speed on things like lumens and kilowatts! I was always told that the type of lights boiled down to what you wanted to do with them. If it's just start seedlings that will be transplanted out later, then the cheap fluorescents will do the job. If you actually want to grow crops indoors, then you need an actual "grow light" of some type.
I have a chrome shelf unit with a bunch of suspended Home Depot 48" T8 shop lights, and they keep my seedlings perfectly content until it's time for them to go outside.