14 watt LED Panel....Herb Garden?

[khyberkitsune]

The T5s will do great for basil. In hydroponics, expect that basil to explode. You might even have it start dripping oil right from the leaves

[leadmagnet]

That's made it clear Weez. So basically, the 225 lead China panel isn't good enough to grow herbs except mushrooms.
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Carmel Santos
CEO of Herb Gardening Guide
The Australian Guide to Herb Gardening

Actually, all the light most mushrooms need is one quick click from a strobe placed above your shroom grow per day.

[BujMeUp]

Hey guys....first of all ive been readin off this site for a little while, and some of you are pretty freakin amazing. Ive been lookin into gettin started using LED, however my budget is pretty tight. Anyway my question for you fellas is if youve ever heard anything about sunshine systems? I was thinking of getting the glowpanel 45, and was wondering if it is good, or crap. Thanks for hearin me out.

the site is The GlowPanel 45 LED Grow Light - led grow lights -Sunshine Systems
if you were curious

[Prodaytrader]

ok mr Bujmeup who digs up old posts...here is what I found out. Stay away from LED's at least for now. Maybe there are some out there that work, but even if you find them, they wont be cheap. One thing is for sure, cheap LED's dont work for shit. However your in luck as there are some other things that do work and work almost as cheap if not cheaper then what you just showed me.

Take a look into T5 HO lighting. If you ebay or google T5HO fixtures you can find all kinds of cheap 2' & 4' lengths and bulbs from 4 to 8 per fixture. I built mine, I'm not sure if you will have that option. I purchased the ballast for about 50 bucks which can handle up to 220 watts of T5 bulb. At first I used 6 x 2' bulbs and then later realized that I could put 5 x 3' bulbs in instead and get more out of my ballast. They charged about 5 bucks per bulb and also had nifty little sockets for about 1 buck each which you wire into the ballast and which holds the bulbs. The bulbs run pretty cool but you will want to do something for light cooling. In that case I found 2x120mm fans connected to a 12v power supply did the trick just fine. All of this I did for under 100 bucks and it puts out 220 watts of T5 HO light.

I have since discovered something called "power compact" lighting. The cool thing with it is that you dont need wires on both ends so they can be hung vertically pretty easily without a reflector and between the plants.

Either system you go with, check into the spectrum needed for veg and flower. Lot's already talked about on that subject but if you wanted too you could run T5's all the way to the end.