Christmas light LED grow box – Update #1
LEDs, indoor growbox, indoor seed starting, wondersoil
I have been pretty impressed with the results of the Christmas lights LED grow box so far. I did have some preconceptions that I may need to double the lights or upgrade the LEDs, but so far the plants look healthy without white leggy stems, though still need to wait until the true leaves come in. As you can see in the picture above I have quite a selection of pots reused from previous years. The one exception are the newspaper pots which I discovered last year and am definitely a fan of. You can also see from the gross white stuff that my grow box probably could use a fan or at least prop a corner open.
Here is a picture of one of the cucumber plants up close.
My experiment is being conducted in the LED grow box so for its update, looks like is in the lead but hard to say with just germination occurring.
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Tags: cheap, grow lights, growbox, led, outdoor plants, vegetables
January 11th, 2009 at 6:47 AM
I’m a big fan of newspaper pots too. I only use them for things that are harder to transplant (like cucurbits) but they work very well.
January 11th, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Great job!!Im a huge fan of leds!www.igrowwithleds.com
January 12th, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Hi there, LED grow box? Are you speaking of using LED lighting and nothing else special (besides the cool newsprint pots of course) I would love to do some indoor gardening and you have inspired me.
January 12th, 2009 at 8:37 PM
shawn, sorry I neglected to include link to the original project. (added now)
January 14th, 2009 at 3:10 PM
What a great concept!! I think i will be doing this! This Wondersoil, the link goes to a blog that does not exist. Can you help me with that?
January 14th, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Cindy, thanks for the heads up I have fixed the links.
January 17th, 2009 at 7:57 AM
I was researching this 3 years ago from a college that did this and they had stunning results. They used 80% red and 20% blue. The plants grew to a certain height next to the outdoor plants to a certain height and stopped. Was impressed enough to try it my self with the soldiering method. Blew up my leds. Need more research and added current resistors around a 12 volt supply in parallel. Anyway I was thinking of using the disc’s from cheap led flashlights next . They make them in several colors and are shipped free from hong kong. Take out the disc and wire them up. They have them up past 109 led flashlights that I have purchased over 2 years ago. Time to put them to use. Just take out the disk and throw the rest away. A couple of sites I use are http://www.ledshoppe.com/index.html and the other is http://www.dealextreme.com/. They also have led’s on a roll to for over a year just now making it’s way to the u.s. market.
January 19th, 2010 at 9:00 AM
The best for growing with leds
February 10th, 2010 at 6:32 PM
You mentioned the problem of air circulation. Perhaps you could rig up two computer case fans to pull fresh air through the box?
July 7th, 2010 at 8:38 AM
Great Post!! I tried to check out the link to newspaper pots… didn’t work out for me. Does anyone have another link?