The first rule of growing plants indoors with artificial light is to have a Ph.D. in botany – just kidding. It is to pay attention and make a commitment to learning. Introduce subtle changes over time and allow plants to respond.
Their response will help you develop stronger instincts about your rooms, seasons, species, light, warmth, and soil. Here is an excellent tool kit to get you started: 10-piece Gardening Tool Set with Zippered Detachable Tote and Folding Stool Seat with Backrest.
- This is a 10-piece Gardening Tool Set with Zippered Detachable Tote and Folding Stool Seat with Backrest all-in-one.
- Garden tools are conveniently stowed in the outside pockets to be near at hand while other garden items can be stored in the attached zippered tote.
- This garden stool has a lightweight aluminum frame . Seat made of strong polyester canvas (6000 denier) with Backrest and tote.
- Dimensions: 12.0 L x 13.5 W x 27 H Weight: 4.5 Lb.
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Artificial Light Set-Up Process: Know Your Indoor Garden
Growing plants indoors with artificial light is more challenging than you might think, particularly if you want to grow fruit, herbs, leafy greens, and vegetables. The typical “starter” plants for a novice indoor gardener include decorative species like African violets, succulents, and ponytail palms. And those are usually satisfied with natural light from windows. These are most likely to survive your learning process.
Start conservatively. Set yourself up for success by learning about light and temperature in your home with plants that can withstand a little experimentation. Consider house plants that are notoriously hard to kill. They are survivors and will probably draw enough sunlight from windows and won’t require a lot of trimming or watering.
Once you’ve tested different rooms and have a sense of where plants tend to thrive, move on to herbs. For growing food, a home does not usually have enough natural light. You might consider adding artificial grow lighting.
See the section below on managing heat along with your grow lighting and determining the required bulb type, temperature, light days, and other care instructions depending on the species you are cultivating.
What to Plant Indoors
Easy edible plants to grow indoors include:
Chives grow faithfully almost anywhere. Gather them like you’re cutting grass, at the base, and leave behind two-thirds of the bunches. Mint is invasive and tends to explode outdoors, so indoors is an excellent way to keep it under control. If you want to plant parsley seed, soak the seeds in warm water until the seed coat cracks and then move it to the soil. Plant the smaller spherical types of basil. Others grow too big and will take up too much space.
- Name: Slow Bolt Cilantro
- Life Cycle: Annual | Height: 20
- Light Requirement: Full Sun | Uses: Culinary
- Sowing Method: Direct Sow | Hardiness Zones: 3 - 9
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With cilantro, plant two or three weeks at a time. This will provide staggered harvests. Harvest outdoor rosemary at the end of summer to grow indoors during colder months. Start with a four-inch piece from the tip of a branch, cut off the leaves at the base, and plant in potting soil. Cover with plastic. This will keep things moist. When you have your first harvest, take a look at Favorite Recipes with Herbs: Revised and Updated.
When you want to move on to vegetables, start with carrots. They will forgive a novice gardener. Plus, indoors, they won’t have the chance to grow so big that they turn to wood. Keep soil moist. Garlic will sprout quite readily indoors too. Plant a sprouting garlic clove about 1-inch deep in a 4-inch container and add water. Within weeks, you will have garlic greens.
Peppers are tropical perennials, so they don’t stand up to even the slightest frost, but inside they can thrive. Plant some sweet or hot pepper seeds or pot some from your garden in August or September and bring them indoors.
- Beautiful -- Large individual packets of five varieties of peppers, including 2 sweet varieties: California Wonder, Sweet Banana and 2 hot varieties: Jalapeno and Serrano. Best started indoors under lights 8 weeks before setting outside.
- Good Eats -- Peppers are a favorite for their mild or hot flavor. Excellent for eating raw, pickling, or adding to salads and omelets.
- Productive and Decorative -- Peppers, in assorted hot or sweet varieties, are not only productive plants, but typically have lush foliage that looks great in garden and in landscape beds.
- Easy to Grow -- Instructions to plant included on each packet with additional growing tips, harvest instructions, recipes, etc. under the “How To” section of our website. Plus we are available to answer your questions as well. If these seeds don’t germinate, we will happily make it “Right” for you.
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Lettuce is really easy-going with indoor life. It will also continue to regrow. The container must be two to four inches deep and full of moist soil. Sow by gently fingering them into the surface. Mist to keep the seeds moist. The results will appear within two weeks.
- Quality Lettuce seeds packaged by Seed Needs. This packet measures 3.25 wide by 4.50 tall and come with a full colored illustration on the front side, as well as detailed sowing instructions on the reverse.
- Buttercrunch is a leaf variety that is very heat tolerant and bolt resistant. The loose, buttery textured leaves boast a refreshing flavor and stay mild far longer than other strains that would otherwise turn bitter.
- The plants can easily be grown in the cooler seasons of early Spring and later on in the Autumn season. Buttercrunch Lettuce takes about 65 days for full maturity, and its baby leaves can easily be used as micro greens.
- The plants reach about 9 to 15 inches tall and can spread 6 inches wide.
- All Lettuce seeds sold by Seed Needs are Non-GMO based seed products and are intended for the current, and the following growing season. All seeds are produced from open pollinated plants, stored in a temperature controlled facility and constantly moved out due to populari
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Where to Plant Indoor Plants
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Consider your indoor garden. It could be anything from a single shelf at a window to a full sunroom on the south side of the house. You can also purchase totally self-contained bamboo and PVC pipe units, a really convenient way to get started. Pot plants and beddings to suit what you have, with an appropriate distance between plants, whatever their containers.
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Depending on the plant, group pots or trays 10 centimeters apart to allow for growth and easy access while trimming and watering. You’ll also want to make sure you purchase lights that accommodate your entire planting area. You may need more than one bulb or light source.
Growing Indoor Lighting Products
When purchasing indoor grow lighting, light intensity, duration, and spectrum are all considerations, and they are all proportionately impacted by temperature. Lighting professionals use what’s known as foot candles, the recognized unit of measure used to assess light levels. Do your research on each species you plant, including which grow lights are best for which species.
- Grow your plants throughout the year: These LED grow lights for indoor plants (full spectrum) provide the perfect high-quality plant light that will allow your indoor garden to bloom and flourish year round. Medium base (E26)
- The perfect plant grow lights for your home: Show off your indoor garden without harsh or unsightly lighting. GEs indoor LED grow light bulbs provide a pleasing, natural light temperature that integrates well with any decorative aesthetic.
- Long-lasting, low energy and low heat plant light bulb: The GE plant lights for indoor plants (full spectrum) feature advanced LED technology that uses only 9 watts of energy with low heat generation.
- GE Grow light with balanced light spectrum for seeds and greens: The GE BR30 grow bulbs appears white to the eye but have a red/blue light spectrum that is perfect for tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, leafy greens and herbs.
- Grow light bulbs for indoor plants: Now you can grow any variety of plants in your home. The GE Grow lights were carefully designed to give your plants the most light with a high output PPF of 16 micromoles per seco
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Grow light bulbs in any ordinary lamp or ceiling fixture are easiest for new gardeners. Grow light fixtures are more costly, but they offer a total solution. One can provide for multiple plants, dispersing the lighting evenly throughout the space. Here are some options in indoor grow lighting:
Phlizon Newest 600 W LED Plant Grow Light with Thermometer Humidity Monitor
- NO REFLECTOR NO DANGER- Many others grow lights are used led spotlight reflector to make the light look beautiful, but we dont use it because the led reflector is not heat-resistant. If a short circuit occurs，reflector at 80℃ is easy to melt and fire. we do not use the reflector, we can not give up the safety beause of beauty.
- COMPARE TO HPS/MH- Compared to MH / HPS lamps, it generates less heat, more energy saving and lower electricity bills.It has a more comprehensive light spectrum . The 600W LED grow light can replace 100 watt HPS/MH. More effective coverage area than any reflector series lights. Perfect fit for a 2x2ft growing area at 24 height. The difference of us is that we use double cooling fans. which can most extend the light life.
- DOUBLE SWITCH- Veg and Bloom button have different function. Veg switch: Its blue led and white led. For seedling or young vegetative growth,you can use Veg switch only. Bloom switch: Its red led and white led. For flowering/blooming,you can use both Veg and Bloom switches together. View Angle of LEDs: 90°and 120°
- FULL SPECTRUM- We did lots of experiments to ensure that this full spectrum promotes plant growth. It includes universal blue red IR UV and white leds which can provide everything plant desired in the natural sunlight. The IR and UV leds can promote plants to defense mechanisms, blue and red led is essential light for plant growth.
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Grow Light, Ankace 40W Dual Head Timing 36 LED 5 Dimmable Levels
- Best Red/Blue Led Combination - This LED grow lights diverts targeted wavelengths for plants. The 12 Blue LED chips ensure plants take in more energy through the synthesis of chlorophyll to help in germination. 24 Red LED chip contributes to effective germination, flowering, and enhances photosynthesis for better results.
- Timer - It comes with three timer setting options which allows up to 3, 6, or 12 hours according to plant needs. This is a one-way timer whereby lights can automatically turn on and off everyday.
- 5 Dimmable modes & 3 Switch Modes - It has 5 dimmable modes to suit varied stages of plant growth. You can just switch the lights off or on to suit the plants need.
- Adjustable Design - It has a USB connector which makes it convenient to connect to your office or home. With its 360 degrees adjustable gooseneck, it is able to light a wider area and emit light in any direction to provide energy to more plants.
- Multiple Uses - It is suitable for indoor plant seedlings grown in a hydroponic greenhouse at your home or you placed in your office. It helps to speed up the growth of potted plants, flowering plants, foliage, and succulent plan
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MIXJOY GL-4000 LED Grow Light with High-Efficiency Samsung LM301B & Mean Well Driver
- 【DIMMABLE & DAISY-CHAIN FUNCTION】 The Upgraded GL series growing lights have Dimming Knob and Power Switch, with the Daisy-Chain control box and connect cords, One grow light can control up to 20 lights’ intensity at same time. This group dimming control function no need extra control panel, very convenient to extent the coverage for big indoor growing house or large growing tent.
- 【HIGH EFFICIENCY & HIGHER YIELD】 MIXJOY Indoor Plant Light is equipped with latest High Efficient Samsung LM301 LED series diodes and Dimmable MeanWell Driver, high efficiency up to 2.8 umol/J and powerful output, enabling you to obtain higher yields. Only consumes 450w, which saves up to 50% energy than HPS or other SDM LED or Blurple light. Veg footprint: 6 x 6 ft, Bloom footprint: 5 x 5 ft.
- 【SUNLIKE FULL SPECTRUM】 The real Sunlike full spectrum with white, blue, red and IR diodes (3000K, 5000K, 600nm and 760nm), infinite close to natural light, provide all types of indoor plants and all growth stages with full spectrum lighting and help plants grow better and healthier, bring higher yield in a shorter time. Tips: the IR LEDs look dim, but it works.
- 【RELIABILITY AND VERSATILITY】 No Fan&No Noise, the Fanless design bring you a quiet and better life; with high-quality aluminum heat sink board can quickly disperse heat, reducing light lost to aisles and walls, allowing your plants receive more energy; the additional waterproof function can protect the light intensity avoid the damage in a moist planting environment.
- 【CUSTOMER SERVICE】MIXJOY LED Plant Lights GL series can provide 3 years warranty and 30 days money back guarantee. We will always insist on providing high quality products and professional customer service on Amazon. If you have any questions, please feel free to E-mail us and we will offer you professional guidance to help your plants grow bett
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VIVOSUN 6500K 2FT T5 HO Fluorescent Grow Light Fixture for Indoor Plants
- Plug and play ballasts saves time and hassle
- 120v input, 8-feet power cable
- This T5 fixture comes with 6500K high output fluorescent bulbs
- 95% highly reflective aluminum of VIVOSUN T5 grow light fixture
- UL listed & 2-year warra
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Heat is a problem with incandescent, and distance is a problem with fluorescent. A standard fluorescent fixture equipped with two 40-watt tubes will only light a space about 20 centimeters wide and a meter long.
Incandescent bulbs can hang higher above the plants and have a better spread. With this option, a 60-watt bulb will provide the equivalent of sunlight on an area one to one-and-a-half-meter square.
LED grow lights are the latest technology on the market today. They consume a fraction of the energy and put out dramatically less heat. The color light spectrum range is the fullest of any grow light. For these reasons, LEDs are preferable to both incandescent and fluorescent.
