With the mention of lights I thought I would add in that traditional HID or Halogen lamps are wasteful for growing as plants really only use light that is 660nm(red) and 450nm(blue) to grow.

What does that mean to you?

Well with some 450nm and 660nm LEDs mixed 50/50 in a panel you can provide all the light needed to grow any plant excluding some mosses and algeas. While it will be a higher up front cost to build (or buy) this system what you get in return will be a light setup that uses much less current and voltage (the ones I am using are 10mm 5v 20mA), meaning a really low power out, which in turn gives us the benefit of needing to water the plants less due to heat evaporation, no heat signature for people to spy on us with, and a lower electricity bill! Oh and LEDs have a typical life time of 100,000 hours, so you won't be replacing them anytime soon.

But there is a catch isn't there?

Yes actually there is, and its a bit of an odd one. Your plants will come out with a black tint due to technical aspects I will go into later in my full writeup.

But for now thats all you need, expect my full write up to be posted in the growing section come Sunday mourning.

-Moleman out