I can germinate lettuce seeds reliably now, and it’s been easy to keep them in dwc - they grow like wildfire. I don’t like soil much.
I haven’t tried using green. I have tried T5 vs Bridgelux strips and the BL smokes the T5s, they work a lot better. I don’t like t5s at all anymore.
this was like - wow 5-6 years ago this thread started. Since then, I have grown a lot of lettuce and herbs and vegetables indoors. Mostly lettuce, herbs like the regular kitchen stuff, some green veggies like different types of Choi and kale. Choi is awesome to grow, easy and tastes awesome. Cherry tomatoes and flowers and cactus we’ve been growing under all these leds and we even get our cactus to flower so I dunno if that’s good but they all love those cheap ass bridgelux led strips.
we also grow micro greens, sprouts and are just starting tissue culture now. When this post originally started, Horti lighting group was one of the only good options but it’s gotten so easy now there are so many leds available.. you can build a good shelf light for a fraction of the cost and they appear in all tests to work excellent. The cheapest I got down to was around $0.70CDN/watt to build a light more efficient than the first gen quantum boards. Pretty slick.
