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Step 5Using It
Now for the best bit, actually using it.
1.)Place the tissue paper in the small tub and dampen with water, then sprinkle a few seeds ontop and place inside your LED growing tub.
2.)tun on.
3.)wait
4.)eat delicious plants!
depending on what your growing you may need to transplant the seeds into a better growing medium once they have germinated.
During my first attempts at growing plants under LED lights, i grew cress in a bean can, and used a PIC microcontroller to turn it on and off every 12 hours, this produced failry good results, the cress grew quicker than some placed on my windowsill.
After reading around a bit on the internet (whether you agree with the use of a certain herb which is currently illegal in the uk or not, the people who grow it tend to be very knowledgeable on plant cultivation, and have a wealth of experience in growing plants under artificial lights) i found talk of keeping lights on for 24 hours during vegetative growth stages, then encouraging flowering by switching to 12 hours on and 12 hours off during, i don't know if this applies to all plants, but i shall be experimenting.
I'm still playing around with this so any suggestions/improvements are greatly appreciated, and if anybody decides to do this themselves (i hope you do, its great fun) i would love to hear about your results.
1.)Place the tissue paper in the small tub and dampen with water, then sprinkle a few seeds ontop and place inside your LED growing tub.
2.)tun on.
3.)wait
4.)eat delicious plants!
depending on what your growing you may need to transplant the seeds into a better growing medium once they have germinated.
During my first attempts at growing plants under LED lights, i grew cress in a bean can, and used a PIC microcontroller to turn it on and off every 12 hours, this produced failry good results, the cress grew quicker than some placed on my windowsill.
After reading around a bit on the internet (whether you agree with the use of a certain herb which is currently illegal in the uk or not, the people who grow it tend to be very knowledgeable on plant cultivation, and have a wealth of experience in growing plants under artificial lights) i found talk of keeping lights on for 24 hours during vegetative growth stages, then encouraging flowering by switching to 12 hours on and 12 hours off during, i don't know if this applies to all plants, but i shall be experimenting.
I'm still playing around with this so any suggestions/improvements are greatly appreciated, and if anybody decides to do this themselves (i hope you do, its great fun) i would love to hear about your results.
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While i'm sure some plants / drugs might be better grown under artificial light i dare say cress can survive without external power supplies!
Interesting as an experiment though!
Darkness is not needed.
As long as lights are on they continue to grow.
I agree with flowering at 12/12.
red for flower
just white and u`ll b all right
plant will always grow towards the light so you could try horizontal grow tube
an idea i had was solar cell to charge battrie pack conected to photo cell which could switch a relay to turn on battrie pack when go`s dark "any help of wireing would be helpful"