Tech Talk: Starting the Garden Early with High Efficiency LED Grow Lights

There are a couple more months of winter where I am, but It's not too early to start seeding.

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With indoor Grow Lights, seedlings can be nurtured until they are ready for the garden.

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Hot peppers are used to a long hot growing season, so I like to give them a head start. If I waited until May to plant cayenne peppers in the garden, I would be lucky to harvest a few cayenne. Starting the peppers indoors, months in advance, gives the plant time to build a solid leaf, stem, and root structure. When a indoor started cayenne pepper is planted in the garden in May, it will produce a bushel. Wild strawberry seeds can take many weeks to sprout, I like to get a head start on them too. Green houses and poly low tunnels are also a great way to extend the growing season.

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This LED Grow Light is made with 169 individual blue and red LED lights, energy is not wasted on colors in the light spectrum that plants do not need. Plants prefer blue light for vegetation growth, red light for blooming and fruiting. This light has both plant stages covered. LED lights run very cool compared to conventional lighting, there is less chance of the room being over heated, or plant leaves getting burned.

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Covering a 3 foot by 3 foot grow area, these High Efficiency LED Grow Lights use only 45 Watts!

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I have a package with seeds waiting at the post office, I will be seeding some of them soon.

Have a great day!

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